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title: "The Orphan Queen (Orphan Queen, 1)"
brand: "jodi meadows"
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# The Orphan Queen (Orphan Queen, 1)

**Brand:** jodi meadows
**Price:** A$48
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- **What is this?** The Orphan Queen (Orphan Queen, 1) by jodi meadows
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## Customer Reviews

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    A must read for fantasy YA lovers
  

*by W***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2015*

In all honesty, my review of The Orphan Queen should just read as follows…OMG OMG OMG! WHAT JUST HAPPENED? This book is amazing and you MUST read it now! Like pre-order it now and then just sit by your mailbox and wait for it to arrive. When it does…read it immediately!I suppose I need to give you a little more information on the book though, so I am going to ATTEMPT to give you a semi-coherent review that manages to explain my feelings for this AMAZING book.While reading this book I was reminded of everything I love about the Throne of Glass series, the Grisha Trilogy, and the Girl of FIre and Thorns…all YA fantasy series that feature strong women as the heroine on an epic journey that changes their lives forever. This is my favorite kind of story because it involves amazing world-building, is action packed and I absolutely adore the main character. The Orphan Queen is everything I love in a book and now I just want to know all of the things that happen to Wilhelmina. No seriously, I need the second book in my hands RIGHT NOW!  I mean…that ending!! Fair warning, the ending is brutal. In the best possible way though…I think!As with every great fantasy novel, Jodi Meadows introduces us to a complex world filled with danger, intrigue, magic and legend. Every page gave me something new to discover and I absolutely loved exploring the world of The Indigo Kingdom. There was so much going on regarding the use of magic and the effects it had on the kingdom and its people, that I’ve never seen before. Meadows manages to find a fresh and unique way to introduce a concept found in many Young Adult novels these days and I was hooked from the opening pages. There are so many twists and turns, and just when I thought I had figured it all out, I realized that I knew nothing and that I should never be so foolish to assume I know what Meadows has in store for her readers. Although this is the first book I’ve read by Jodi Meadows, I am total fangirl now and can’t wait to go back and read her Newsoul series.The Orphan Queen is amazing, its gripping, it will rip your heart out in the best possible way. I always know I’m reading a great book when I find myself thinking about it even when I’m not reading. I grabbed this book every chance I could get and didn’t want to put it down. If you’re a fan of epic fantasy novels that introduce you to a world and story unlike anything you’ve ever read before, then I can guarantee you’ll love this book. It’s the first exciting installment of what is sure to be a new YA fantasy classic!

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    A disappointment
  

*by R***A on Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018*

Here I was drawn in by a pretty cover and a blurb that sounded like it could well pique my interest. I'd had previous experience with the author's first trilogy, which I was so-so about, but I decided to take a chance on this one.Once I started reading, it didn't take long to realise that Wilhelmina wasn't going to be a character after my own heart. It's hard for me to pin-point what, exactly, I didn't like about her, but there was definitely something there. Her whole personality just rankled me.Moreover, it was a disappointment that none of the characters ever really had to use their quick wits or intelligence for anything. Other characters would just happily hand them everything they needed, and they would carry on on their merry way. I just wasn't fulfilling in the least.The one part of the book that could have been interesting was the trip out into the wraithlands, but that was over almost as soon as it began and we were back to politics.I didn't really feel like I got what I'd signed up for.

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    Using magic feeds the wraith
  

*by L***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2020*

I bought this book a couple of years ago because it was the prequel to The Mirror King, which I bought because it had such a good-looking cover (yes, I’m superficial that way). But it proved to be a good book anyway.This book is superficially similar to the Throne of Glass series in that it involves a young girl who is the heir to the throne of a kingdom that was destroyed years ago. Another similarity is that there is supposed to be no magic in the conquering country, where she now finds herself. A third similarity is that something of a romantic interest with the heir to the conquering kingdom eventually develops.But there the similarities end. For one thing, while magic is illegal in the Indigo Kingdom, it hasn’t been entirely eliminated. Apparently, once upon a time, magic was used for almost everything. Industrial magic they called it. And this overuse of magic resulted in a form of magical pollution known as wraith that infected the outlying areas and began spreading, causing anything that came in contact with it to either die or become something monstrous. Decent people have been retreating from it ever since. People believe that using magic now feeds the wraith, and that is why it is illegal.A second difference is that Queen Wilhelmina Korte, now the queen in exile of the kingdom of Aecor, has concluded that she doesn’t want to kill people, or at least not any more than necessary, to take back her kingdom.In contrast, Celaena Sardothian was a trained assassin and had few qualms about killing anybody. Wilhelmina has a significant disagreement with Patrick Lien, the de facto leader of the other children from Aecor, who are planning to help her retake Aecor over this issue.The third difference is that Wilhelmina, while she is masquerading as a duchess from a recently fallen province of the Indigo Kingdom, is singularly unimpressed with Prince Tobiah, the crown Prince, thinking him cold and unemotional. The man she fancies is the vigilante, Black Knife whom she has met out in the city of Skyvale at night while she is out stealing for her small group of other Aecorians. There is not a love triangle in this one, though, because it turns out that Prince Tobiah is Black Knife.As the wraith grows ever stronger and comes ever closer, Wilhelmina has many adventures within the castle, outside in the city, and most notably in the wraithland, where she looks for some means to stop the wraith from advancing.

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