Book Review: The Queen of Attolia

The Queen of Attolia came out when I was twelve, not long after I had read and loved The Thief, so I bought it in hardcover (this was an honor shared by, as I recall, Harry Potter books and Tamora Pierce’s latest releases) and read it on vacation, on a sunny day in a park where the exterior wall of the bathroom had been painted as a mural copying Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

As you can perhaps guess by the fact that I remember the circumstances in such detail, The Queen of Attolia scarred me for life.

( Spoilers, for both the book and the series as a whole )

Onward to The King of Attolia! This is my favorite book in the series (and the one I wrote fanfic for, lo these many Yuletides ago) and I am VERY excited.