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More Magic A Little Austen and A Few Surprises

The True Queen by Zen Cho

May 10, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve had The True Queen sitting on my shelf a while; long enough that I remember the general plot and characters of the first novel in the series (A Sorcerer to the Crown) which ended up being a little bit of a problem when I didn’t quite remember who certain characters were at first or how they were meant to relate to each other. The first novel is Jane Austen-esque, and this one keeps the general vibe, but the story this time is all new; […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, Austen retelling, fairy, Jane Austen, The Sorcerer Royal, the true queen, Zen Cho

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, Austen retelling, fairy, Jane Austen, The Sorcerer Royal, the true queen, Zen Cho ·
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A pretty good follow up to Sorcerer to the Crown, even if I did predict everything.

The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2) by Zen Cho

May 10, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

First of all, on the one hand this was a good follow up to Sorcerer to the Crown, which took pretty much everyone by surprise several years ago. It was like a little breath of fresh air, a light fantasy full of people of color in a setting people of color don’t normally inhabit in fiction (Regency England), taking on existing power structures and being all clever and wonderful. This book continues that tradition (this time with an emphasis on kindness and identity). At the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, narfna, Regency, Romance, Sorcerer Royal, the true queen, Zen Cho

narfna's CBR11 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, narfna, Regency, Romance, Sorcerer Royal, the true queen, Zen Cho ·
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