When Muna loses her beloved sister in Fairyland, she turns to the Sorceress Royal for help. But the Fairy Queen is threatening to invade England if a stolen necklace isn’t returned. A missing sister is the least of Prunella’s worries…
I came into The True Queen straight off the back of a dark, action-packed space opera that unexpectedly gave me all the feelings. I was aiming for a delightful end-of-SciFiMonth palate cleansing and change of pace; instead, I got full-on whiplash. You see, I’d forgotten just how whimsical Sorcerer to the Crown was – in tone and plot, if not in context – and The True Queen proceeds in much the same vein. In retrospect, picking up The True Queen when I did probably wasn’t the wisest choice, as I wasn’t really in the right frame of mind to roll with it… All of which is a long-winded way of saying I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I expected to, but it’s probably my own fault…more