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REVIEW:

THE VANISHED QUEEN by Lisbeth Campbell at The Reading Cafe:

‘a wonderful, dark adventure’

http://www.thereadingcafe.com/the-vanished-queen-by-lizbeth-campbell-a-review/

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Author Interview: Lisbeth Campbell, author of THE VANISHED QUEEN

Author Interview: Lisbeth Campbell, author of THE VANISHED QUEEN

Hey, all, Luther here. I got to see a VERY early draft of The Vanished Queen, and made some comments and suggestions, so I got to read an ARC before it came out. It’s good. You should read it. This is Lisbeth’s debut novel, and she agreed to do a brief interview with me. The book releases today, everywhere finer novels are sold.

Tell us a bit about yourself.  What made you into an author?

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[nfinitefreetime]

#REVIEW: The Vanished Queen, by Lisbeth Campbell

#REVIEW: The Vanished Queen, by Lisbeth Campbell

Let’s start with some disclaimers: while Lisbeth Campbell and I have never met, we’ve been mutuals on Twitter (you should follow her) for long enough that I don’t remember not following her, and I saw a veryearly draft– like, pre-alpha, where there were bits that said things like here and there, and I’m mentioned in the back of the book in the acknowledgments, which will never ever stop being…

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[whimsicaldragonette]

ARC DNF Review: The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell

I really wanted to like this book. The blurb and description were so promising, and it has a gorgeous cover, but the story fell very, very flat for me and I ultimately decided to DNF.

There's this evil king - Karolje - except... we never actually see him being evil. We are told that he is evil, but all he does is sit on his throne being too-thin and on the way to dying.

Then we have two princes who - we are told - are resisting him. A resistance fighter who - we are told - is part of the resistance.

Pretty much nothing actually happens. The characters think a lot, and recall things, and think about how awful the king is and how they're going to resist... and that's it for the first 15% of the book. I honestly couldn't force myself through any more of it because it was a slog.

Also the writing-- besides being long-winded and very Tell-not-show-- is choppy. Full of short sentences. One on top of the other. Kind of like this. Occasionally there will be a long sentence, or an attempt at a more flowery description, but overall it is painfully flat.

*Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for providing an e-arc to review.