Author: Laura Thalassa
Title: The Queen of All that Dies (The Fallen World #1)
Language: English
Format: audiobook
Rating: 2 stars
Read: 24.04.2018
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Plenty of readers have stated how they have loved the romance part of the story between Serenity and King Lazuli ... and honestly, for the life of me I still can't really root for them. It's been almost a month since I finished this book and I must admit that I'm still a bit conflicted about it.
Usually, I'm all for books that feature a couple with an age difference, but somehow Serenity's and Lazuli's age difference creeped the hell out of me. It didn't matter that the king had somehow altered his looks with modern medicine so that he looked like a man in his thirties, he was still a man in his sixties who "wooed" a 19-year-old girl. Somehow I'm not bothered by these huge age differences with vampire stories, but this one bothered me a lot. Maybe it had to do with the fact that their relationship didn't actually seem 100% consensual as that old man had to kind of force himself on her.
As for the plot itself... Well, it did keep me captivated, but I wouldn't actually say that it lived up to my first reading experience by Thalassa.
PS! I listened to the audio version narrated by Laurel Schroeder. The narration was quite nice... if I don't count the king's odd as hell voice.
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In the future, the world is at war.Even though I actually quite liked the story as a whole (I actually have no idea why), there is actually plenty wrong with some of the logic in this book that stop me from enjoying the story like a lot of others have. For instance, if someone had nuclear bombed the hell out of two continents, there's actually very, very little chance that everything would be sunshine and butterflies on the other side of the pond in Europe.
For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. No one knows much about him other than a series of impossible facts: he cannot die, he has not aged since the conflict began, and he wants to rule the world.
All Serenity Freeman has known is bloodshed. War has taken away her mother, her home, her safety. As the future emissary of the Western United Nations, the last autonomous region of the globe, she is responsible for forging alliances where she can.
Surrender is on the horizon. The king can taste it; Serenity feels it deep within her bones. There is no other option. Now the two must come face to face. For Serenity, that means confronting the man who’s taken everything from her. For the king, it means meeting the one woman he can’t conquer. But when they meet, something happens. Cruelty finds redemption.
Only in war, everything comes with a price. Especially love.
Plenty of readers have stated how they have loved the romance part of the story between Serenity and King Lazuli ... and honestly, for the life of me I still can't really root for them. It's been almost a month since I finished this book and I must admit that I'm still a bit conflicted about it.
Usually, I'm all for books that feature a couple with an age difference, but somehow Serenity's and Lazuli's age difference creeped the hell out of me. It didn't matter that the king had somehow altered his looks with modern medicine so that he looked like a man in his thirties, he was still a man in his sixties who "wooed" a 19-year-old girl. Somehow I'm not bothered by these huge age differences with vampire stories, but this one bothered me a lot. Maybe it had to do with the fact that their relationship didn't actually seem 100% consensual as that old man had to kind of force himself on her.
As for the plot itself... Well, it did keep me captivated, but I wouldn't actually say that it lived up to my first reading experience by Thalassa.
PS! I listened to the audio version narrated by Laurel Schroeder. The narration was quite nice... if I don't count the king's odd as hell voice.
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