The High King's Golden Tongue
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Prince Allen has trained his entire life to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious mother, who has made their kingdom one of the wealthiest and most influential in the empire. For the past few years he has trained to become the new consort of the High King. The only thing no one prepared him for was the stubborn, arrogant High King himself, who declares Allen useless and throws him out of court. High King Sarrica is ruling an empire at war, and that war will grow exponentially worse if his carefully laid plans do not come to fruition. He's overwhelmed and needs help, as much as he hates to admit it, but it must be someone like his late consort: a soldier, someone who understands war, who is not unfamiliar with or afraid of the harsher elements of rule. What he doesn't need is the delicate, pretty little politician foisted on him right as everything goes wrong.
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5 primary books#1 in Tales of the High Court
Tales of the High Court is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Megan Derr.
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the book was just.......okay
there was ALOT of details to take in, I even forgot what was what lmao and that's not good for me.
also i kind of felt underwhelmed with their relationship at the end, It needed a bit more connection, hardly felt anything and got bored with them.
3.5
Megan Derr's writing reminds me of those fairytales I listened to when I was young, the writing just seems so light, and the characters troubles may pressure them, but the way in which they are told don't make it gloomy. You get sucked into her story world right away, although Derr doesn't explain it in great detail.
The main reason why I gave this book precisely this rating is that there's one major plot hole that eats it's way through the entire book. The changes happen too fast, especially at the end when mutual attraction bloomed between Allen and the High King Sarrica. I just felt that there was somekind of connection missing. As the part where they first met wasn't included, there was just something missing that would've been important for me in this story. This way I couldn't really enjoy the part where Sarrica comes to Allen's rescue, because I didn't knew much about their first meeting. Sarrica humiliates Allen when they first meet and this is such a huge issue for Allen, that he goes on a mission with a group of soldiers. It wouldn't have mattered if their first meeting didn't hold much importance for either of them, but the way it is, the absence of it is responsible for the two missing stars.
All in all this book was nice to read, short and sweet, and ideal for reading before going to bed.
Allen is probably one of my favourite protagonists of any book I've ever read.
If you enjoy queer fantasy then I would totally recommend this book.
(I totally missed that Nyle and Tara were transmen?? But if that's true then that kinda just makes this book even better.)
