This is the final novel of the Queens of Renthia trilogy though Durst mentioned she was writing a stand-alone novel about one of the other three kingdoms not explored as thoroughly as Aratay and Semo. Overall, I quite liked where Durst went with the story, and while in some ways, she followed some of the expected solutions, in other ways, she very much went against conventions, leading to a conclusion that contained elements I expected and others that I did not. After mostly being discussed […]
Do You Know How Hard It Is To Lead?
After The Reckoning, I needed to take a break from Bingo since my upcoming selections were not what I needed after a tragic medieval Welsh history novel. One was too dark, one was another novel set in medieval Britain and I figured I needed something different as a palate cleanser. It also seemed like the perfect excuse to fit in The Reluctant Queen, the second part of the Queens of Renthia trilogy, which I had started shortly before Bingo but then couldn’t’ fit into any […]
Turns Out Braveheart Was Pretty Accurate About Edward I Being a Bastard
Bingo Square: This is the End As much as I have enjoyed reading Penman’s Welsh Princes trilogy, it also took that extra push from CBR10Bingo to finally build up the motivation to dig into the final novel. What can I say? Her books are a commitment, and there is something rather daunting about them because being based on history, there is very little justice or sense of people getting the ending or lives they deserved. The last novel showed how Simon de Montfort, a flawed […]
Boundary-crossing erotica that’s Courtney Milan approved
It’s been a minute since I’ve written a review, and I feel like I’ve forgotten how to do it. Let’s pretend I was never gone and this is actually going to be competent, shall we? So I said right in the title of this review that this is Courtney Milan approved erotica, which is a kind of flippant way of saying she gave it a 5/5 star rating with about a billion caveats. Specifically, I’m referring to this review of The Siren, the first book […]