Title: The Two-Faced Queen
Series: The Legacy of the Mercenary Kings #2
Author: Nick Martell
Summary: In a world where memory is the coin that pays for magic, Michael knows something is there in the hot white emptiness of his mind. Branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king’s nine-year-old son, by his father, ten years later he lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back at the world that rejects him and his family.
Score: ★★★1/2☆☆
Review:A solid second book in the series. There was a great deal of plot points hints, discussed, and introduced in the story; although I do feel like it spent a lot of time on some things that extended the story where it could have be shorter, and where there was much more to learn it kept it short and less explained. As for the main character cast, despite it being a huge group of characters, I feel the author actually did a great job at spacing and caring for the characters personal stories but at the same time, that's what I think prolonged the story in parts, since things were spaced out it was easy to forget some important information, which in a world where you lose your memories for using magic, I felt just as lost as our MC haha. I wish some more time was spent on the overall magic systems as there are so many, which is great dintnget me wrong; and a few recaps of the main plot alongside the arcs would be nice. But as a second book in a series, it usually is the infodump book so I won't score it hard for that reason. Overall, I think there was just so much, some things just got cut to what could have been a whole other book. This series gives off the vibes of Mistborn (so if you're a fan, you'll enjoy the series so far) --- {not spolier but even still just in case} I also wish a certain reconciliation played out better as it seemed quick with not much reasoning given the constant due hatred, meanwhile another was given a lot of time and reasoning.
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