If you’re looking for a heartfelt romance about being the leader, the person, we want to be, look no further. It doesn’t hurt that Wooing the Witch Queen also features dual POV and a delightful entryway into a series about the queens everyone calls villains. Keep reading this book review of Wooing the Witch Queen for my full thoughts.
Summary
Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic.
When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well…
Little does Saskia know that the “wizard” she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he’s in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other?
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
Wooing the Witch Queen is delightful and heart warming. It’s a story about being cast as the villain and what it means to either fight against it or embrace what they think makes us villains. Is it our power? Is it that we had to fight against tyranny and the murder of our family? We can try so hard to be the hero, that we forget that maybe there’s nothing wrong with it? Wooing the Witch Queen also tells a story of challenging our expectations.
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Of not allowing people to take our voices, and our power, away. It balances being incredibly fun, heart pounding, and swoony, with setting up a great foundation for the series. We love a good reference to the Romeo and Juliet line about loving someone under another name. There’s certainly an element of cat and mouse, but it’s more than that. It’s about seeking refuge, recouping our strength, and realizing acting together makes us stronger. Amanda Leigh Cobb does a great job with these dual POVs and bringing the characters alive in their differences – and angst.
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