Hello
happy readers. I hope you all are having
a good week, mine is so close to being back on a regular schedule again. It's such a pain from knowing your schedule
for the year set days then you have 2 weeks where you have to look at the
schedule every day to remember what day it is and if you have to work. Not cool.
But onto more important and much for fun things, Aprils book of the month with Perpetual YA Bookworms was The Queen's Rising (The
Queen's Rising #1) by Rebecca Ross.
My thoughts on the book in the different sections can be found in
spoilery detail on the discussion board.
In May we have 2 books A Court of
Frost & Starlight (ACOTAR #3.1)
by Sarah J. Maas which I already finished and reviewed here, and Renegades (Renegades #1) by Marissa Meyer which I hope everyone will join us
for! But onto my review of The
Queen's Rising.
Rating: 5 Stars
So
first off this cover when I first saw it made me want a cloak all the
more. Yes if and when my bestie finally
makes us those cloaks she's been talking about making us for YEARS I will
totally be the one rocking a cloak like a boss.
We follow Brienna who is put into the Magnalia House to master one of
the passions: art, music, dramatics,
wit, or knowledge, and in the end gain her cloak and a patron I was ready. I was a good student but I think a cloak
would have motivated me more than a piece of paper…I'm just saying. Struggling to find her place she chose to
study knowledge much later than she many others and when her seventeenth summer
solstice comes she finds herself without a patron. Still things are not over for her as she
discovers something different about herself aside from being of both Velenia
and Maevana. Brienna ends up taking many
risks as she takes on an unexpected and unorthodox patron as she fights to
restore the rightful queen to the Maevana throne. War is building and sides are drawn as
Brienna uses the gifts she was given and must choose her own side.
So
right off the back we have the mystery of her parentage not knowing who her
father is just that he is Maevana. The
rules are bent in order to allow her, a sixth girl into the program despite her
not having an initial talent. Brienna
goes from passion to passion not finding her place right away like the others
but they are all so supportive and really a great sisterly pack. I do hope we get to see more of Ciri, Oriana,
Abree, Sibylle, and Merei as the series continues on. They were a nice part of the first part of
the book and I loved their interactions as they worked with one another. Honestly I think Brienna is the most unique
not just by her parentage but because she has spent time with each passion she
is a fuller individual for it drawing on a small thing learned from each
one. She wouldn't master them but she
took something from each and I love that.
Then of course in Magnalia we have to talk about her Master of knowledge
Cartier. I enjoyed watching him build her
up and encourage her.
Things
get much more interesting as the world continues to grow and build as we leave
the Magnalia house and learn about Maevana and how some plot to take the
kingdom back and put it back into the hands of the rightful queen as a king was
never meant to rule. I loved this
aspect. The uprising and espionage here
but also that it is a woman's land to rule.
They are trying to find the two pieces they need to make their stand and
Brienna is the key to finding one of them.
She begins to learn more about Maevana history and customs, learning the
other half of herself. I like the
balance between the two, again making her a beautiful balance. I also like that she is fighting to help the
rightful queen, she is just a cog in the wheel rather than the main part which
is different from most fantasy I have read as of late. So that was neat.
"If you offend a Valenian, you lose your
reputation. But if you offend a Maevan…then
you lose your head."
There
is a really slow build romance happening that while I wanted more it wasn't the
primary focus as higher priorities took president but it was still there in the
background just simmering to a boil. It
was done with great care. The world
building really went all out. I was
enjoying all the different locations greatly as we dove deeper into
things. This is a beautiful world made
more beautiful by the writing. I look
forward to seeing more in the world even though I could say this title could
have easily been a stand-alone I am curious to see what more will happen. This was an amazing book and even more
amazing debut!
Until
next time…
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