#thehundredthqueen

[bookishmoonchild]

Bom dia, amores! 👽 Estou testando de ficar mais ativa aqui no Instagram e usar as fotos como um complemento do TRS e falar sobre minhas leituras “em tempo real”. ✨ No momento estou lendo #TrulyDevious e #TheHundredthQueen e gostando bastante de ambos os livros! 🌻TRULY DEVIOUS: ele é dividido entre duas linhas narrativas, o passado e o presente. Então enquanto vamos acompanhando a personagem principal, Stevie, vamos descobrindo mais sobre o caso do Truly Devious. Eu já li uma série da Maureen Johnson, a Shades of London/A Hora da Estrela, e adorei. Inclusive, acho que TD é melhor escrito e o suspense de tirar o fôlego! 🌻THE HUNDREDTH QUEEN: O universo dessa trilogia é muito interessante e a cada página quero descobrir mais sobre ele! Fora que adorei a Kalinda/Kali, ela é uma personagem complexa, um pouco ingênua, mas o mundo em que vive não permite que o seja completamente e questione muitas coisas. O livro está ficando cada vez mais interessante e o Deven também é bem interessante, hehe. O que acharam desse formato? Querem mais posts desse tipo aqui? Se sim, conversem comigo porque além de só assim o Instagram funcionar ultimamente, também dá ânimo de continuar! 💕 Me contem sobre suas leituras, estão gostando?

[dorothydreyer]

Last full day here on Mallorca. Enjoying sitting poolside and reading this amazing book. You really must pick up #thehundredthqueen by #emilyrking. I'm loving it! Oh, and ignore that bruise on my leg from colliding with the pool ladder! 🙈 . . #booksandpoolside

[krystisyaandwine]

Have you started reading this beauty yet?! #thehundredthqueen officially came out yesterday, and I couldn't be more excited. This is our #yaandwine book club pick this month, and one of my very favorite fantasy novels I've read this year! Check out the description below! 📚 As an orphan ward of the Sisterhood, eighteen-year-old Kalinda is destined for nothing more than a life of seclusion and prayer. Plagued by fevers, she’s an unlikely candidate for even a servant’s position, let alone a courtesan or wife. Her sole dream is to continue living in peace in the Sisterhood’s mountain temple. 🍷 But a visit from the tyrant Rajah Tarek disrupts Kalinda’s life. Within hours, she is ripped from the comfort of her home, set on a desert trek, and ordered to fight for her place among the rajah’s ninety-nine wives and numerous courtesans. Her only solace comes in the company of her guard, the stoic but kind Captain Deven Naik. 📚 Faced with the danger of a tournament to the death—and her growing affection for Deven—Kalinda has only one hope for escape, and it lies in an arcane, forbidden power buried within her. 🍷 In Emily R. King’s thrilling fantasy debut, an orphan girl blossoms into a warrior, summoning courage and confidence in her fearless quest to upend tradition, overthrow an empire, and reclaim her life as her own. 📚 #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #instabook #instabooks #bookphotography #bookphotographer #ya #younadultbooks #readya #yabooks #ya #yabooks #yaforever #yaforlife #yafantasy #readlocal #supportlocalauthors #bookblogger #bookreviewer #yaandwine

[kathrynpurdie]

‪Happy release day to my wonderful friend @emily_r_king for her gorgeous debut novel, THE HUNDREDTH QUEEN! I had a blast at your launch party tonight, Em! I love you and am so proud of you! Also, a sweet old lady (no, not me) won a Wonder Woman Funko Pop doll and gave it to me! And I got to hold @sarablarson's sweet baby, Adeline. All in all, a fab night! ... #thehundredthqueen #authorlife #wonderwoman

[mypinkbubbles]

I download this book last week from a good deal courtesy of amazon. Also it was included in my recommended, so I was pretty intrigued plus the summary was pretty cool. (Please refer to my bookshelf). i had my mani-pedi's done while I was reading it. It was pretty much a fast read, to be honest. Not that it took as much time as it did with doing my nails but what I'm saying is that it just took me possibly 3 hours to read through the whole thing.

I did enjoy the read, kinda reminds me of Sultans or Arabian/Indian cultures, I do believe the book was in reference to it, I don't know, maybe it was just me. Yeah, anyway. I really like the plot story, arena fighting/tournament and all, so I expect epic fighting scenes. I mean, they were 'trained' and all. but Ugh! it pains me to say this, but it fell so flat to me. For example, she was able to take down the 'strongest' fighter in her temple, and I'm like wtf? why didn't the fighter fight back? like that so... ugh, frustrating really. I don't know, the writer is making the heroine look like the underdog in the most frustrating way as possible because it was just simply unrealistic in my opinion the way she just 'somehow' won everything. There so many instances throughout the book that made me pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration. I really don't want to go into details because it would be a LOOOOOONG review. I guess the only thing I liked about it is the story itself. That's about it. Character development? Lacking. Details and Description? Lacking. Final thoughts? If you want to read it, by all means go ahead. Let me remind you all that everyone has different taste and very different ways to approached them. Usually, when it comes to books in series, I usually review when I finished reading all books, just in this case because personally I didn't like it as much as people rave about it in goodreads. I'll probably just finish the rest of the book series just to have some closure but I don't think i'll be rereading it anytime in future.

Rating:  ★★

[decoratingreader]

I'm so excited to be participating in the @storygramtours for the Hundredth Queen by @emily_r_king! This is a lush high fantasy about a girl who becomes the one hundredth queen to a tyrant king! For this amazing tour we will be revealing a character description each day and my character is Rajah. . Rajah Tarek: Born into privilege, the ruler of the empire was always entitled; however, a betrayal broke his heart and shattered his goodness. Tarek became a cruel, vengeful man with little regard for women. He has a weakness for long, beautiful hair and drinks too often. His delight for brutality angers the gods, yet he believes he’s above their wrath. . We also have a fantastic giveaway for 10 finished copies of the Hundredth Queen and you can see how to enter down below! . ✨GIVEAWAY✨ Enter to win 1 of 10 finished copies of The Hundredth Queen •follow me, @amazonpublishing @emily_r_king and @storygramtours •tag a friend you think will be interested For EXTRA entry •visit @theshybooks account tomorrow & repeat these steps . ✨RULES✨ •Giveaway will end May 9th at midnight EST •US Only •not affiliated with Instagram . Summary: As an orphan ward of the Sisterhood, eighteen-year-old Kalinda is destined for nothing more than a life of seclusion and prayer. Plagued by fevers, she’s an unlikely candidate for even a servant’s position, let alone a courtesan or wife. Her sole dream is to continue living in peace in the Sisterhood’s mountain temple. But a visit from the tyrant Rajah Tarek disrupts Kalinda’s life. Within hours, she is ripped from the comfort of her home, set on a desert trek, and ordered to fight for her place among the rajah’s ninety-nine wives and numerous courtesans. Her only solace comes in the company of her guard, the stoic but kind Captain Deven Naik. Faced with the danger of a tournament to the death—and her growing affection for Deven—Kalinda’s only hope for escape lies in an arcane, forbidden power that’s buried within her. . Thank you to @amazonpublishing for providing me with a copy of The Hundredth Queen . Picture inspired by the lovely @myfriendsarefiction . #storygramtours #hundredthqueentour #thehundredthqueen #emilyking #tbr #flatlay

[krystisyaandwine]

Thanks so much to you AMAZING authors and writers for letting me tag along with you tonight! Had such a great time! We're so lucky to have such a great book community here! I'm so sorry I didn't catch everyone's full names, so please tag anyone I missed! #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookblog #bookaddict #instabook #burningglass #everthehunted #thehundredthqueen