The Impostor Queen

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"An old queen dies. A new one arises. That's how it's supposed to work. When the power tore itself loose, it took everything with it except for one image: a little girl with coppery hair and pale-blue eyes. She was too blurry to make out--even as Kaarin tried to focus, her vision doubled, creating two wavering, overlapping faces in the fog. Still, she knew exactly who the little girl was, and what was about to happen to her. Then the last shreds of ice and fire slipped free without a fight, for Kaarin had no strength left to hold on to them. The darkness was complete. The magic was gone. And so was she." -- page 4 of cover.

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Unique World-building submitted by torikaebaya on February 4, 2017, 10:54am Starts off very strong with a lot of unique world-building (and hey, who ever thought of writing a Fantasy YA that takes place in Copper Harbor?!)... and then for reasons I can't wrap my brain around loses all gravitas for 200+ pages. Sadly a lot of plot details are borrowed from the Lunar Chronicles (when will YA editors get it into their heads that books don't have to consist of pathetically recycled stories to be sellable?!) and the love interest is basically Kristoff with less personality (yes it's possible, somehow...). The last 100 pages are worth reading as exposition to the Cursed Queen, but are a major let down.

Unique world but a bit predictable submitted by steveiew on June 22, 2018, 9:37am This book started off very interesting but it went down hill after that. It becomes very predictable and the main characters are too contrived. It's a story that has promise but never delivers.