Book Review: The Fire Queen by Emily R King

I have the whole The Hundredth Queen series in my possession for over a year now and I have no excuse for not reading it, but one of my goals for this year was to read it and I have started it and I'm on book two now so time to review book two.  Let's get to it?


The Fire Queen by Emily R King

In the second book in The Hundredth Queen Series, Emily R. King once again follows a young warrior queen’s rise to meet her destiny in a richly imagined world of sorcery and forbidden powers.

Though the tyrant rajah she was forced to marry is dead, Kalinda’s troubles are far from over. A warlord has invaded the imperial city, and now she’s in exile. But she isn’t alone. Kalinda has the allegiance of Captain Deven Naik, her guard and beloved, imprisoned for treason and stripped of command. With the empire at war, their best hope is to find Prince Ashwin, the rajah’s son, who has promised Deven’s freedom on one condition: that Kalinda will fight and defeat three formidable opponents.

But as Kalinda’s tournament strengths are once again challenged, so too is her relationship with Deven. While Deven fears her powers, Ashwin reveres them—as well as the courageous woman who wields them. Kalinda comes to regard Ashwin as the only man who can repair a warring world and finds herself torn between her allegiance to Deven and a newly found respect for the young prince.

With both the responsibility to protect her people and the fate of those she loves weighing heavily upon her, Kalinda is forced again to compete. She must test the limits of her fire powers and her hard-won wisdom. But will that be enough to unite the empire without sacrificing all she holds dear?

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First of all, can we talk about how beautiful the covers for this series are?  They are gorgeous and let's admit it really makes you want to read it even more, right?  

Alright, book two...Kalinda is married to the dead rajah but the troubles is way far from over yet.  The imperial city is overtaken by the warlord and now she must find Prince Ashwin, but of course things don't go as planned and when she meets Ashwin she ends up finding herself in another tournament.  A tournament that will not only save her city, her friends but herself too.

The more time she spends with Ashwin the more confused she becomes, he resembles the dead rajah physical so much but inside they are so different and she finds that out by spending more and more time with him.  

But once her powers are out in the open her life will get more complicated both personally and politically. And that will not be the only thing that will have to worry about, more danger is coming, more than she and everyone ever thought.

Once this book was over?  I just was ready for the next one, more so than when the first one ended.  I think book two was even better than book one, I cannot wait to continue with the series, it won't take long people, I'm planning on picking book 3 up next month, or maybe even this month :)

4.25 out 5 stars.

XOXO,

Nelia

Book Review: Romanov by Nadine Brandes

Seriously, it's April...is it only me or is this year flying by, not that I'm complaining that the warm weather is coming, because it's my
favorite but holly molly, it's just going by so fast.  I need to post reviews more often, and I just haven't found the time or maybe the time is just slipping from my fingers this year lol.  Oh well, let's get to this review for now.

Romanov by Nadine Brandes

From Goodreads:
The history books say I died.

They don’t know the half of it.

Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them . . . and he’s hunted Romanov before.

Nastya’s only chances of survival are to either release the spell, and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya’s never dabbled in magic before, but it doesn’t frighten her as much as her growing attraction for Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her . . .

That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad . . . and he’s on the other.

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I admit, I haven't really dig much into the Romanov history, yeah I have heard about it here and there but I not one of those die hard fans that one every single detail but I love history and once I heard about this book I was totally into and couldn't get my hands on it.  And in my opinion it totally did it for me, I loved it, yes it was fiction and the facts may have not have not been all 100% all right, but that's what a fiction book is, right?

Can we talk about the Romanov's? I loved getting to know about the family, yeah maybe they were not all so tight and loved each other like in the book but I personally loved that it was done this way.

And let's talk about Anastasia, there were times  I wish she could step up a little more but man, when you look at what she was going through I would probably freak out so bad that I wouldn't do half of what she did.  And the romance, well I'm still not sure how I feel about it, no spoilers but what the heck I don't think I could ever forgive him.  

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and gave it 4 out of 5 stars and it has made me want to learn a lot more about the Romanovs. 

Did you read it yet and if so what did you think about it?

XOXO,

Nelia