Crowned a Traitor by Kate Callaghan
|Merry Xmas & Happy 2021|
Hello Books Lovers,
did you think the blog was already on vacation? Almost. This is the last post of this 2020, we close with a review at 3.5, a higher rating than we could give this year if there was an evaluation, in the hope that 2021 reflects our expectations that taking into account the current situation not very high, only the necessary to return to normal living what do you say?
However, moving on to the review, the book I am talking about today is a self sent to me directly by the author via Netgalley, not translated into Italian, it is only in English, and is Crowned a Traitor by Kate Callaghan, a fantasy, young adult , where the supernatural theme prevails over everything because the protagonist is Klara Lucifer, daughter of Lucifer himself.
But what could one expect from a story like this if not that Klara doesn’t want what awaits her at all, doesn’t want any responsibility and doesn’t want to command Hell when her father retires from his duties. For years she has been sent to be trained by the queens of Hell, Eva, Lilith and Abadan, but she has always been a rebel, with a secret job, and almost a secret life.
Everything changes, however, when following a clash she is literally heartless and is thus forced to have to go to her father to get a new one. Here she also reunites with an old friend of her and an old flame who apparently rose through the ranks to become an important figure in her father’s court, Frendall. But what Klara feared most was the fact that it would not be easy to go home to the Queens, and so it is.
Her father wants to retire and wants her to take his role in his place immediately. She finds an excuse for not having to ascend the throne yet, she even runs away, but from here she will spend the rest of the book on the run to try to reach the world of humans, and it won’t be easy, and between allies and traitors, the book ends. leaving you with bated breath and trepidation for the second volume.
The story itself has a lot of potential, I liked it a lot, but as it was also reported to the author via social media it must be revised well because it is full of grammatical errors, and other syntax problems that if corrected would give another face to the book. The author herself, however, promised that she would soon turn to an editor for the correction, and apologize to those who bought the book on amazon that logically it was not corrected.
My rating of 3.5 stars, which is closer to 4, is due precisely to these prose problems that sometimes make the concept confusing, in this case once or twice, and other times perhaps make reading a bit slow just for how the sentences are written. But otherwise, as I said before, I liked the story a lot and I don’t dare to imagine what will happen in the following volumes. I have been shipping Klara with Frendall ever since he entered the scene, I hope both are more in the center of attention, and more united, in the second volume.
