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r an honest review to kill a queen was overall an okay read for me what i feel like i enjoyed most about it was getting to learn more about jack and the characters and the investigation into the assassination attempt on the queen s life for me these two components of the book were what i enjoyed most because they are what kept me coming back to reading this book everything else about the book was a disappointment to me as it had such potential but ultimately missed the mark what i enjoyed about the characters in to kill a queen was seeing the different relationships between them in particular i enjoyed learning more about jack and his past i wanted to learn more about what had happened before the events in this book such as what had happened to his best friend and why the two of them acted the way they did towards each other in this book and how he managed to become the investigator we see him to be i also enjoyed seeing his relationship with other characters in this book such as the coroner damian whom he saw as more of a father than his actual father his father axe and the relationship that started to develop as the story goes on with jenny i was really invested in seeing how all of these relationships in this book would develop as the story went on and i feel like this book did a decent job of delivering on this somewhat for me there are some character relationships i was really rooting for here that i found myself ultimately disappointed with how they turned out but i ll delve into that later on what i also enjoyed when reading to kill a queen was seeing jack investigate the assassination attempt this investigation had so many twists and turns that i found myself eager to see where it was all going add in whenever jack came close to uncovering who was responsible for the attempt the people who had the information turning up dead and i found myself very eager to find out how everything would come together even the truth of the situation didn t end up ruining it all for me because i felt like it made sense to what jack uncovered as he investigated i will say for those who are hoping for a masterful case here this book won t be for you because this case definitely isn t all that masterful once the truth is finally revealed okay now onto why this book was such a disappointment to me so to start with remember how earlier i had mentioned that some character relationships that i was really rooting for in this book but that i was then disappointed in how they turned out the biggest example that comes to mind for me is the dynamic between jack and damian in the beginning of to kill a queen they had such a wonderful relationship damian the coroner and jack his protege throughout the book they got along really well as jack saw damian as the father he never really had due to how he was brought up he trusted damian wholeheartedly more than he trusted anyone else in this book then later on in the story it s revealed that damian has a gambling problem and owes some really bad people a huge debt and he goes to someone jack has been warning him since the beginning of the book to never go to to fix his problems jack s father and because he goes to jack s father axe to take care of his gambling debt you can imagine how this impacts the relationship between jack and damian jack basically sees this as a betrayal and finds that he no longer trusts damian this also ruined for me the way i felt about their relationship too because i honestly was hoping their dynamic would stay intact another issue i had with to kill a queen was the overall plot itself the investigation into the assassination attempt was interesting to read but the story in between was just not all that interesting to me yes i wanted to learn more about jack and find out his story but i felt like the information the author gives in this book just wasn t enough to keep me interested i felt like with a majority of it i was just thrown into the story and was expected to know what was going on the best example that comes to mind for me is concerning jack s strong dislike of his father axe like i understand his father is in charge of a criminal empire but i never truly saw his dad as a villain when reading to kill a queen until he obliterated jack s relationship with damian that was the only time when i understood what jack was talking about when he talked about his dad being a bad person who couldn t be trusted which reminds me that i feel like as a reader it s never explained how jack becomes the investigator he becomes in this book none of that backstory is ever given here just given little snippets here and there where i see him struggle with doing the right thing and at times i found that was frustrating for me too overall to kill a queen is an enjoyable read if you want to read a book about a simple case with an interesting investigation and getting to see the dynamics between all of the characters however if you want a more complex book than i don t recommend this one for you because it will disappoint to kill a queen was published on november 11 2025 for those interested in giving this book a read january 19 2026 0 book review witchlore rating 4 5 stars holly black meets lex croucher in this contemporary fantasy about a love story to raise the dead at demdike college of witchcraft orlando is an outcast not just for being the only shapeshifter in a college of witches not just for being a really bad shapeshifter with no control over their magic or when their body switches between male and female forms but because their girlfriend elizabeth died and it was lando s fault then charming new boy bastian arrives with a proposition he knows a spell that can raise elizabeth from the dead it s dangerous but lando will try anything but as lando s attraction to bastian grows questions start to arise who is bastian what does he really want and who will survive the resurrection spell for fans of v e schwab and rainbow rowell emma hinds witchlore is a spellbinding contemporary fantasy where the passion is as real as the magic i received a digital copy of this book through the publisher on netgalley for an honest review witchlore was a fantastic book from start to finish that had me in a vice grip from having a character like lando who struggles with the loss of their first love i immediately found myself rooting for and hoping things would be alright in the end the grief they experienced at witnessing elizabeth s death and how it s covered in this book really can t be described will say this book gets really dark with it though so for those who can t handle that i would highly suggest staying away but personally i find showing those moments of vulnerability and how a character overcomes their grief are needed in books for people who ve personally gone through those moments in order to showcase the reality of grief and how it affects a person what i also enjoyed about this book was learning about the magic in this world about the relationships between witches and shapeshifters something i personally felt like could ve been elaborated a little more in the story as a lot of this book was heavily focused on lando and bastian working together to bring elizabeth back from the dead i felt like there really wasn t a lot of time spent fully explaining the relationship between witches and shapeshifters i felt like what little bit i received was from the perspective of lando and what they uncovered during their time getting ingredients for the resurrection spell but not much outside of that i also enjoyed the magic overall in this story but would ve loved to have seen more of it being used because again i felt like that was something else that i personally felt like was lacking in the story too i get why because of who the main character is and what ends up being discovered plot wise i just personally wanted a little more myself since this is a fantasy story i also found the truth surrounding the resurrection spell enjoyable it was a twist that i was able to connect with early on in the story but i felt it was necessary to allow both lando and bastian to move on from the grief and loss they experienced from losing the people they loved i especially enjoyed seeing lando s different shifts throughout while getting the ingredients to perform the spell and learning more about their past that had been hidden from them if there s anything i didn t particularly enjoy with witchlore it s how those who don t fit in get treated in their world this is seen by how lando gets treated as a shapeshifter unable to control their magic and bullied because of it and lando is treated very terribly by their peers to the point of having no one at college that they considered a friend until bastian arrives and changes everything it also isn t ever dealt with either except for when lando stands up for themselves because whenever bastian does he ends up getting into more trouble than the person who s bullying lando overall though i enjoyed reading witchlore as it had my attention from start to finish had a unique set of characters set in an interesting world that i couldn t get enough of and i was sad when i finished reading this book because of how much i enjoyed reading their story highly recommend for those who want to read a story with magic and romance between two unique characters witchlore was published on october 14 2025 for those interested in giving this book a read january 10 2026 0 book review and the river drags her down rating 3 5 stars she has always known the rules never resurrect anything larger than the palm of her hand but that was before her sister died a chilling compulsive exploration of sisterhood loss and revenge when her older sister is found mysteriously drowned in the river that cuts through their small coastal town soojin han disregards every rule and uses her ancestral magic to bring mirae back from the dead at first the sisters are overjoyed reveling in late night escapades and the miracle of being together again but mirae grows tired of hiding from the world she becomes restless and hungry driven by an insatiable desire to finish what she started in life to unravel the truth that crushed her family so many years ago mirae is out for revenge when their town is engulfed by increasingly destructive rain and a series of harrowing unusual deaths soojin is forced to reckon with the fact that perhaps the sister she brought back isn t the one she knew i received a digital copy of this book through the publisher on netgalley for an honest review and the river drags her down is one of those books that slowly hooks you into the story because it took me a while to get into this book don t get me wrong i enjoyed reading this book it becomes very clear from the beginning how much soojin and her father haven t moved on since mirae s passing how much her death has impacted their lives this book does a wonderful job of showing characters still grappling with grief not being able to move on many months after it s passed and how it impacts everyone in one household however for me i feel that this book moved slowly at the beginning to get to the most interesting aspects of the story i get the point of it too though because as a reader it gave me insight into what their lives are like without mirae and i feel like that was needed to see once she s brought back how her being here impacts their lives i also feel like once she returns is when the story actually starts to pick up because even though soojin is the one who brought her back mirae s character was more enjoyable to read to me than soojin she was just a more enjoyable person to me overall out of the two sisters as i feel like soojin was just there in the story yes she s the one who brought mirae back but a lot of the plot in the story that occurred was due to mirae s actions once she returned and i found her character more interesting because of all that she d been through before her death as well as after what i also feel like and the river drags her down does well is show the relationships between all of the characters you see this through soojin s friendship with mark and through the friendship mirae had with bentley i feel like all of the friendships in this book you could see how they all changed throughout because of the events that had transpired as a result you could see how soojin and mark lost touch because of what was going on with soojin s family and you could see the complicated friendship between mirae and bentley due to the nature of their parent s dynamic in the town it was all an interesting dynamic that i was intrigued to read more about i also found that i enjoyed reading about all of mirae s abilities and how she went about finding out the truth about what happened to their mother it was cool getting an insight into the past to get an understanding of why things transpired the way they did i also found myself feeling really empathetic towards mirae too though as i continued reading because of how she had to become the parent in the family once their mother was no longer around i think that s also why i found her character more enjoyable as well because she was the one who had to shoulder the burden of being responsible for everyone in their home i also wasn t fond of how and the river drags her down ends either granted i had a feeling the way this book ended was how it ended up going because the best way for them to truly move on from what happened is to start over but i was hoping there would be more with it than what gets shown like seeing them after they ve started over i also was expecting more to happen because of her friendship with mark but she waited to tell him last which continues to prove why out of the two siblings she wasn t my favorite one to read from because she continues to wait to put off difficult things for later will say though that the end of this book definitely wasn t as bad for me as the beginning overall though enjoyed reading and the river drags her down even if i initially had a difficult time getting into it when i started it i felt like once her sister was brought back the story started to pick up and get more interesting i recommend this book as a good read for anyone interested in reading a story about a family dealing with grief and who wants to read a horror story that primarily focuses on water horror i will say though that if you are someone who doesn t want to see any animals harmed in the books you read you should probably stay clear of this book because there s definitely some animal death in this one and the river drags her down was published on october 7 2025 for those interested in giving this book a read december 30 2025 0 book review the omen girl rating 4 stars a pulse racing ghiblipunk debut of magic redemption and a love that survives the dark between stars perfect for fans of elizabeth lim amélie wen zhao and sue lynn tan abandoned by her parents when her omen stain appeared sozo...