I read and reviewed the first book in the series before reading this book. I found that first book, The Empire's Ghost, to be a bit tedious, but still interesting. This second book, The Rightful Queen, is unfortunately just tedious.
While I don't normally get lost with a cast of many characters, I found myself stretched to the limit with the first book. This second book just piles on, adding more characters! While I wasn't entirely sure of the plot of the first book, this book continues in the same vein, although to its credit some of the remaining questions from book 1 are answered. Book 1 was at least clean, where this book contained more adult themes. Overall, the care I had for the characters was gone by this book. I just wanted to know what happened to Prince Landon (and it wasn't what I thought).

Thanks NetGalley & publishers for the free e-ARC. I wish I liked this book more.

Honestly, this was such a behemoth of a book, with the many plot lines and characters, I honestly think I need to re-read it to write an accurate review since there was so much going on!

That being said, I definitely liked this second book in the series better than the first. I thought the actual plot in this one flowed better. So even if you were kind of meh on the first book, it’s worth reading this one!

Full review to come!