“I am Amora Montara, and I will no longer be a pawn. I will be a queen.” – 2.75/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: poison, legends, the dead, Gods, fate, bones and teeth.

Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. Now, with the islands in turmoil and the people questioning her authority, Amora cannot allow anyone to see her weaknesses.

No one can know about the curse in her bloodline. No one can know that she’s lost her magic. No one can know the truth about the boy who holds the missing half of her soul.

To save herself and Visidia, Amora embarks on a desperate quest for a mythical artifact that could fix everything―but it comes at a terrible cost. As she tries to balance her loyalty to her people, her crew, and the desires of her heart, Amora will soon discover that the power to rule might destroy her.

I’m changing my original rating from a 3 to a 2.75. Not a huge difference, but it makes more sense to me to rate this within the 2 star tier. I cooked that “Ferrick situation” in my head for a while, and I concluded that that particular situation made me go from an “it was okay” read to a “I actually didn’t like it that much” read.

Like I said, this was overall a very okay-ish read. To be honest I think I lost interest in the story in the first book, so I basically tried to read this one just to conclude the trilogy.

The plot was boring, the characters were boring and I wasn’t invested in anything from this second book.

I can’t pinpoint exactly what went wrong, because in theory this duology had everything to be a new favorite of mine: pirate themed, strong female lead and an enemies-to-lovers romance. Now that I think of it, I think the pace completely destroyed the potential of the book. The story dragged on for way too long, and added that to the rest of “meh” elements… you can imagine how underwhelming it became.

Also, the nail in the coffin for me was the “Ferrick situation” like I mentioned before. Even if Ferrick wasn’t my favorite character (because he was), the event that happened made no sense and it felt unnecessary. So… there’s my view on that.Just an okay story overall – I know I’m being repetitive, I’ll stop now! Not the best, not the worst either. Wouldn’t recommend it.