I was really looking forward to reading The Queen’s Assassin by Melissa De La Cruz as I enjoyed her Blue Bloods Series back in the day and the premise sounded interesting. Perhaps I went into this book with too high of expectations, because I found it to be a bit of a disappointment.
One of this book’s biggest problems is that it is full to the brim of cliches. Now, that wouldn’t normally be a dealbreaker for me, but these cliches are so poorly executed and so painfully obvious that it got rather boring. I had to practically force myself to keep reading, and no matter how far along I got, it never improved. There’s a “twist” at the end that I literally called in the prologue (I’m really questioning if that prologue was even necessary). Honestly, I think all of this could have been fixed by simply sticking to Cal’s point of view, instead of flip-flopping between him and Shadow.
Big problem number #2: There was way too much “telling” instead of “showing” going on. It got old really fast, especially in connection to the romance.
The cover is absolutely gorgeous, so kudos to the designer on that. It’s just sad that the content didn’t live up to it.
One of this book’s biggest problems is that it is full to the brim of cliches. Now, that wouldn’t normally be a dealbreaker for me, but these cliches are so poorly executed and so painfully obvious that it got rather boring. I had to practically force myself to keep reading, and no matter how far along I got, it never improved. There’s a “twist” at the end that I literally called in the prologue (I’m really questioning if that prologue was even necessary). Honestly, I think all of this could have been fixed by simply sticking to Cal’s point of view, instead of flip-flopping between him and Shadow.
Big problem number #2: There was way too much “telling” instead of “showing” going on. It got old really fast, especially in connection to the romance.
The cover is absolutely gorgeous, so kudos to the designer on that. It’s just sad that the content didn’t live up to it.