{"id":2479,"date":"2014-06-01T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2014-09-28T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T23:35:05","slug":"traitor-queen-by-trudi-canavan-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Traitor Queen by Trudi Canavan – review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This review forms part of my contribution to the\u00a0Australian Women Writers 2014 Reading Challenge<\/a>. All my 2014 AWWC reviews can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Traitor Queen\u00a0<\/em>is the third\u00a0book in the Traitor Spy trilogy. I reviewed the first book,\u00a0The Ambassador’s Mission<\/em>,\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and the second book,\u00a0The Rogue<\/em>, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OK, so I’m starting to see the issue with reading all three books of a trilogy in a row and reviewing each separately – you end up with a lot of repetitive thoughts on the series as a whole. I think from now on if I’m going to read through a series consecutively\u00a0I might do a single review for the whole series. Lesson learnt!<\/p>\n

So, my feeling on\u00a0The Traitor Queen<\/em> don’t deviate much from my comments on the previous two books. Strong characters, good line-by-line writing, a little lacking on the plot\/tension side of things, great world building and good attempt to integrate same sex relationships as a normal part of the world. If you’re interested in more thoughts on that front, I’d recommend my previous reviews (links at the top of this review).<\/p>\n

In terms of a third book in a series, all the major plot points were closed off by the end. The final battle between the Traitors and the Sachakans happened, but was a little anti-climactic. I actually enjoyed the smaller scale drama of the roet\/Thieves\/Lillia storyline much better.<\/p>\n

I quite enjoyed the sense that the Guild was having to adapt on many fronts at once – politically, technologically, internally. It gave a sense of change and time marching forward, which doesn’t always happen in a fantasy world.<\/p>\n

Canavan has introduced several younger characters, and if she was to ever revisit this world again (which I don’t believe she has any plans to), I think leaping forward into the future and not focusing on any of the older characters at all would be the way to go. Anyi and Lillia would form a solid basis for a new series, especially if combined with dealing with the results of the world changes mentioned above.<\/p>\n

Overall a solid series that I enjoyed reading.<\/p>\n

I also reviewed this book on Goodreads.\u00a0View all my reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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