tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730322.post6994670251915492457..comments2024-01-02T00:48:13.255+00:00Comments on Rosario's Reading Journal: The Queen of Blood, by Sarah Beth DurstRosariohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13015659149421085931noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730322.post-83345793867736627862017-08-04T23:59:05.180+01:002017-08-04T23:59:05.180+01:00This sounds really good. Thanks for the review!This sounds really good. Thanks for the review!Janine Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15697781623708001796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730322.post-88232910092910648332017-08-02T14:08:14.860+01:002017-08-02T14:08:14.860+01:00I'm buying this because of your review as well...I'm buying this because of your review as well. This really looks good. Thank You. --Keishon Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730322.post-27563025656398569032017-07-30T09:26:56.181+01:002017-07-30T09:26:56.181+01:00Darlynne: So true! Do read it, I think you'll ...Darlynne: So true! Do read it, I think you'll like it! :)Rosariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13015659149421085931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730322.post-60511537405361992382017-07-29T20:04:47.919+01:002017-07-29T20:04:47.919+01:00How refreshing to have a book that doesn't go ...How refreshing to have a book that doesn't go in the direction and to the places we've come to dread. For that alone, I'm very interested. Thanks for the review.Darlynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09896852319570632032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730322.post-39864373893511586332017-07-29T08:18:13.384+01:002017-07-29T08:18:13.384+01:00I'm glad you enjoyed it, Marianne! You're ...I'm glad you enjoyed it, Marianne! You're right, it's funny how the book doesn't feel overwhelmingly dark while you're reading it, when there's really very little positive going on. But I'm not sure I agree with you on there being no hope. I felt that Daleina's approach of working with the spirits, rather than trying to bend them to her will, did give a little bit of hope for a possible future where there is less constant danger and conflict. However, I'm now reading book 2 and there's very little on this topic. And yeah, you definitely want to take a break before you read The Reluctant Queen. Daleina is really not catching a break at the moment!<br /><br />Rosariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13015659149421085931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730322.post-85345419366520861392017-07-28T13:25:53.662+01:002017-07-28T13:25:53.662+01:00Thanks. I bought it on the strength of your review...Thanks. I bought it on the strength of your review, and stayed up till nearly three reading it.<br /><br />I really enjoyed it. In retrospect, it's a pretty bleak read, though it didn't strike me as that while I was reading. Nothing seemed to escape entirely unscathed, and there wasn't the promise of hope that normally offsets the trauma the characters have been through. <br /><br />Part of the joy of the book is that it deviates from the norm - I loved that the wizarding school was flawed, not because of evil forces, but because that educational system worked really well to produce the school leavers the state required. <br /><br />But still, I could have done with a little bit of the conventional 'light at the end of a tunnel' to encourage me to read on. (And I made the mistake of reading the blurb for book 2, which seems to suggest that Daleina has the issues going forward that one would have expected her to have - which on the one hand is great, because that's how the story should unfold, but on the other my inner reader always looks for happiness and kittens rather than hardship and struggle.)<br /><br />I will read on (apart from anything else, I want to know what happened to Merecot) but I feel the need read some really light & fluffy thing first. Marianne McAnoreply@blogger.com