First
of all, this book is fabulous. I loved it. It made me want to throw aside all
other responsibilities and hide in a closet somewhere, devouring it, like
chocolate!
The
author, Emily R. King is fabulous as well. I've been friends with her on
Facebook for a while (and in person for a short time) and something she
wrote a while back has really stuck with me and I'd like to address it here.
She posted , "When people repeatedly tell me they didn't think they'd like my
book, but they actually really loved it...why does that feel like a backhanded
compliment? Why say that at all? Am I supposed to be grateful I changed their
mind? This whole being an author thing has good moments, but honestly, a
lot of it is just aggravating."
I can completely get what she means about taking it as
a backhanded compliment and also how frustrating such words can be. But I would
venture that perhaps one of the reasons why those people didn't think they'd
like it is because . . . well . . . there just aren't that many fabulous books out
there. So when they read it and discovered that it is actually very well
written, has a wonderful fast pace and is full of delightful romance . . . they
were genuinely surprised. And I'm guessing that surprise usually had nothing to
do with Emily R. King as a person and more just books in general. It's sad but
the market is so over-saturated with books, and there are just not that
many amazing books out there. I mean, sure there are good
books along with the not so great and even crappy ones but there aren't that
many amazing books like The Hundredth Queen.
So there you have it. Now that I have sufficiently hyped the book up--go and read it--with the usual expectation you hold for "most books" out there, so that you can be pleasantly surprised and delighted with this gem.
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