Queen Reviews

                      Well another month is ending in this year and man has it been a month. I can't believe that we're already about to be 3 months into the year!! Well with that being said, it's time again for another Wrap Up!! This month, I was behind again and I have got to get it back into gear so that I can read some more books and get back on track! I've been thinking of giving book battle a break but I think I might continue trying to do it. Either way, I'm going to try to make sure I stay on track or at least close to it so I don't fall as far behind as I did last year! So, this month, I've read 6 books! Not too bad but I can definitely improve on it next month!! Let's get started with my top books of the month!! Here are the books Up For Consideration:     Found and Forged by Ivy Asher     Second Comes War by Lilith Vincent     Restore Me by J.L Seegars     The Alpha's Fate...

      I'm in a conundrum about this book. This book is set in a purely made up world where most of the people haven't seen people of different races. They know they exist but don't seem to have much interaction with them. It's not placed in current day or have anything really to do with our reality. Yet the main character of this story is a black woman and the author is white. To me there doesn't seem to be a disrespectful feel to the story since her being black doesn't really affect the story. It's definitely something that is brought up but it's not like...a main plot point. Hence my issue since as a POC myself, I want to see black authors succeed writing stories that feel authentic. If we ok people who aren't POC to write books with POC main characters will that super saturate the genre with unauthentic stories? Therein lies my problem. I still enjoyed this book but it could definitely be problematic. With that being said let's get...

In Glow by Raven Kennedy, we pick up exactly where we left off, with Auren just killing Midas and everyone in the Fourth Kingdom gang coming to terms with everything that's happened. Let's just get into the review!! We get the perspective of many of the characters in this book. We get some of the background of Slade, we see the machinations of Queen Kaila, a small dose of Queen Malina- who is in fact, NOT dead, Osrik and Rissa. I could have done without seeing Osrik and Rissa's budding romance but I know it's going to be important somehow. Queen Kaila is a manipulative Monarch if there ever was one. It seems that all of the Monarchs have all gotten way too comfortable where they are and will do anything to stay in power. Including lying, which Queen Kaila manages to display throughout this book. It's hard to imagine that Slade is the only good ruler out of them all. But I guess after being born and raised in this life, since the rule is hereditary, makes it harder f...