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
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
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