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I loved QUEEN OF TEARLING and have been recommending it right and left. I'm hoping this book is just the 'sophomore' slump you see with many middle books of trilogies, and perhaps the concluding book will make the second book more relevant in retrospect. In interviews, Johansen said she really wanted to explore the pre-Crossing world more. The Lily chapters do this, but I found them incredibly boring. If you've read THE HANDMAID'S TALE and some dystopian YA of late, you've read that story already- and it's better told elsewhere. After a while, I skipped right over the Lily chapters so I could return to the Tearling world. I'm also very disappointed in some choices Johansen made in regards to Kelsea's appearance; in her interviews after the first book she stressed the importance of having a plain heroine. I really hope she hasn't jettisoned that perspective. I would give the Tearling chapters 4.5 stars and the Lily chapters 1 star, so I'm averaging it out to a 3. I look forward to a more-Tearling-focused final book!


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The Invasion of the Tearling A Novel Queen of the Tearling The Erika Johansen 9780062290397 Books Reviews

I have some reservations about this one but overall I wanted to get back to it when I had to put it down and now I have kept thinking of it after finishing it which are rare for me. I found the first book far more fast paced pace than this one. I didn't mind the change of perspective as the story alternated characters in the first book as each one moved the story forward and did more showing than telling. I didn't feel that was the case with this book. It opened strong with Hall preparing for the Mort invasion but that was the wrong idea to give readers when the rest of the book would have very little action. The main perspective of the book did not feel like Queen Kelsea but her seeing through the eyes of Lilly who was in America Pre-Crossing. The author is a great writer and I find no fault with any of her perspective changes but Lilly is a repressed battered housewife living in a stark world that is very different from this fantasy novel. If I had wanted to read such a book I would do so but I wanted an epic story of good and evil in the Tearling. Lilly's chapters were frequent and long and I was missing the Tearling. I did not feel there was any pay off to those chapters as there usually are when a character is followed. I think it was obvious what was going on with her and her future. If the author wand to write so much about Lilly she should have done so in a prequel novella and I would've known what I was signing on for if I had chosen to read it. I liked the character Fetch in the first novel so I was also disappointed that after so much build up in the first novel he was mostly behind the scenes in this one so I hope he comes back stronger in the next book. I cannot express how much I disagree with how the book ended for Kelsea. I think after everything she had gone through to get there it made no sense. Now in spite of all that criticism j did enjoy the book. As much as I didn't want all the Lilly chapters I still wanted to read the book. As a voracious reader some books drag and I get to a point where I don't want to read them. I always wanted to see what would happen with this one. I only wish I had discovered this series a little later so I didn't have to wait so long for the next one.
When it comes to trilogies, it is rare to read a second book that truly is better than the first. I loved Erika Johansen's debut novel The Queen of the Tearling. To me, the main character, Queen Kelsea, while not without her flaws, was a strong and principled young woman. When faced with the shambles her Queen mother and regent uncle had made of the Tear, she bravely made decisions that made her unpopular with the neighboring country of Mortmesne. It also started a war.

Her second book, The Invasion of the Tearling, picks up immediately after the first. The army of the Red Queen of Mortmesne is advancing on Tear. They outnumber the Tear and their weapons are deadlier. As the book covers the days leading up to the invasion, there is a second story that I initially found jarring and unusual and, at first, did not like. As the reader learned in Queen of the Tearling, the countries of Tear and Mortmesne are the worlds created when people escaped the unknown horrors of our future. Using the story of a woman named Lily, the author takes the reader back to the time called the "Pre-Crossing"; when people drove cars, relied on computers, and women were considered property of men. At first, the juxtaposition of the two stories felt wonky but the more I read of Lily's story the more fascinating it became. It clearly spelled out what happened to make people want to take the Crossing from the modern age into medieval times. And, by the end of the book the reader will know why the story of Lily would be so important to Kelsea.

While Queen Kelsea prepares her country for the inevitable invasion, she still must deal with painful lessons that come to the nineteen year-old queen. She may have arrived in New London book-ready to rule, her previous life experiences left her ill prepared for the colossal undertaking of governing a country. Fortunately she has the superb right hand man, Lazarus; a character that I adore. He's stoic and irascible. His advice is spot on. His relationship with Kelsea is like that of a protective father who must still let his charge make her own decisions. And mistakes. And she does make some doozies.

I loved the flow of the story with the intertwining narratives. As the situation grows darker for the Tear, Lily's story grows dire as well. Both women need to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. Both grow courageous in adverse circumstances. And while I love how the author has painted the teenage Kelsea to be a strong character I could not help but notice how much Kelsea fretted about her appearance. Many women dwell on their looks, for good or bad, but in Kelsea's case, I wanted her to not care what others thought. There are extenuating circumstances within the book that make Kelsea's appearance important but I felt it dwelled too much on them. I was also startled when Kelsea started to cut herself; again, extenuating circumstances but still disappointing.

It's a great series and I cannot wait for the third book. There are some unanswered questions and a reasonably survivable cliffhanger that promises to make the next book an epic finish. I cannot wait.
I loved QUEEN OF TEARLING and have been recommending it right and left. I'm hoping this book is just the 'sophomore' slump you see with many middle books of trilogies, and perhaps the concluding book will make the second book more relevant in retrospect. In interviews, Johansen said she really wanted to explore the pre-Crossing world more. The Lily chapters do this, but I found them incredibly boring. If you've read THE HANDMAID'S TALE and some dystopian YA of late, you've read that story already- and it's better told elsewhere. After a while, I skipped right over the Lily chapters so I could return to the Tearling world. I'm also very disappointed in some choices Johansen made in regards to Kelsea's appearance; in her interviews after the first book she stressed the importance of having a plain heroine. I really hope she hasn't jettisoned that perspective. I would give the Tearling chapters 4.5 stars and the Lily chapters 1 star, so I'm averaging it out to a 3. I look forward to a more-Tearling-focused final book!