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sophia_sol) wrote2019-04-20 11:19 am
sophia_sol) wrote2019-04-20 11:19 am
The True Queen, by Zen Cho
I devoured this book in a single evening because I couldn't put it down, and then the next day I was just like I STILL WANT TO BE READING THIS BOOK because it was so great and I missed it.
This is the sequel to Zen Cho's first novel, Sorcerer to the Crown, but with a new focus and new main characters, so you don't have to read the first one to follow this one. (But you should because the first one's great too! I think I like this one even more though.)
Muna wakes up on a beach with her sister Sakti, both of them totally lacking in memories of their prior life or what brought them there. They're taken in by Janda Baik's most powerful magic-worker, Mak Genggang, and for a variety of reasons Muna eventually ends up on her own in England, where she has multiple priorities, not all of them aligned with the British school for female magicians which has taken her in. And shenanigans happen, as is of course inevitable.
Featuring: Amnesia! Sisters! Multicultural magicians! Aunts who are also dragons! Queer interspecies romance! Fairyland! Questions of identity! AND MORE!
I found myself a little let down by the ending - not by anything that happened in the ending, because it was all great, but I think the pacing was somehow off or something, because I spent most of the book just like, totally delighted by everything, and then the ending just....happened. But overall that's a pretty minor flaw in an otherwise incredible book.
This is the sequel to Zen Cho's first novel, Sorcerer to the Crown, but with a new focus and new main characters, so you don't have to read the first one to follow this one. (But you should because the first one's great too! I think I like this one even more though.)
Muna wakes up on a beach with her sister Sakti, both of them totally lacking in memories of their prior life or what brought them there. They're taken in by Janda Baik's most powerful magic-worker, Mak Genggang, and for a variety of reasons Muna eventually ends up on her own in England, where she has multiple priorities, not all of them aligned with the British school for female magicians which has taken her in. And shenanigans happen, as is of course inevitable.
Featuring: Amnesia! Sisters! Multicultural magicians! Aunts who are also dragons! Queer interspecies romance! Fairyland! Questions of identity! AND MORE!
I found myself a little let down by the ending - not by anything that happened in the ending, because it was all great, but I think the pacing was somehow off or something, because I spent most of the book just like, totally delighted by everything, and then the ending just....happened. But overall that's a pretty minor flaw in an otherwise incredible book.