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After finishing Pestilence by LT, I immediately sought another book by her. And got disappointed.
We have a whiney, self-important heroine, with a veneer of toughness, tantrum-prone, spoiled and dramatic. We have a bad case of insta-love for the main male character (beats me why)... And we also have the same concept of "the weight of the world upon her sholders" as in Pestilence - I would have loved something new.
But whereas Pestilence is consistent, with a nice upbild, a totally different class, this one is shallow and all over the place.


Tags : The Queen of All that Dies (The Fallen World) (Volume 1) [Laura Thalassa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In the future, the world is at war. For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. No one knows much about him other than a series of impossible facts: he cannot die,Laura Thalassa,The Queen of All that Dies (The Fallen World) (Volume 1),Lavabrook Publishing Group,1942662041,Fiction - Science Fiction,Fiction Science Fiction Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic,Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic,Science fiction

The Queen of All that Dies The Fallen World Volume 1 Laura Thalassa 9781942662044 Books Reviews

major spoilers contained in this review.

it's a horrific dystopic future. what we know of as the nations of europe, africa, and asia are gone - now decimated and conquered by a power-mad dictator who won't stop until he has subjected the entire world to his rule, these continents are now merely "the Eastern Empire." with that side of the world fully subjected to him, he has set his sights on the only free peoples remaining - the people of the western hemisphere, who have now united into the Western United Nations in order to strengthen themselves against his attacks. the king has been relentlessly attacking the western hemisphere for a decade - and he's been winning. the population is now almost all killed, with only a fraction remaining, living in underground bunkers. most of these are also slowly dying of starvation or radiation poisoning from the nuclear weapons and atomic bombs that the king has been dropping on the cities.

voila, everybody. King Montes Lazuli, the future's Adolf Hitler, and our book's romantic "hero." and wait, it gets even better.

now meet Serenity Freeman. her father is a WUN diplomat, and she is his apprentice in training. her mother was killed nine years ago when Lazuli's forces bombed their house, also leaving Serenity with a scar down her face. the WUN leaders know they are out of hope, and they send Serenity and her father as ambassadors to the king in order to negotiate a surrender, desperately hoping to save as many people as they can. the Freemans know its a death sentence - Lazuli has murdered all the previous ambassadors. but they know that if they don't, as WUN leaders they will be executed when Lazuli comes to power anyway. so they go.

no worries though! because Lazuli gets super big hots for Serenity on sight. and Serenity feels the same back, even though she knows she's supposed to hate him, since he has like, killed her mother and massacred most of humankind and stuff. oh wells, what's a little thing like character, when the dude is hawt hawt HAWT? pfft. and he does such compassionate things for her! like, in the peace agreement meeting when he declares that he plans to keep the WUN economy crippled and deny any medical relief to its sick and dying population because he's really mad about how they fought back against his invasions for 10 years, after she promises to agree to have sex with him if he lets her people have medical care, he's all like "well okay, in that case"

so anyways, Serenity agrees to prostitute herself to save her people, but its not really gonna be all that bad since she really wants to do the guy anyway and she's aching for his touch. no harm, no foul. but ugh, that dad of hers. he really loves her and wants to save her from that fate. so he plans an escape. only woops, the king has sent his men to interrupt, and they say he can leave, but his daughter must stay and bang the king like she promised! no, the ambassador says, you'll have to go through me to get her! so they're like, fine whatever, and they blow his brains out.

Serenity is so mad but she manages to get away and returns to the WUN bunkers. but crap! the king calls up the bunker and he's like, you better send me Serenity so i can marry that hottie or else no peace agreement and errybody gon' die. so the generals are like, omg easy choice, love you Serenity, bye bye. but Serenity's cool wit it. she does want her people to live after all, and omg that bod of Lazuli's! but now she's REALLY gonna hate him for a few weeks, cuz he killed her dad after all, and that can't be forgiven for a LEAST fourteen days.

but those fourteen days do pass, and they get married, and Serenity gets some nice orgasms on her wedding night and thereafter which proves to her that, wow, futuristic Saddam Hussein isn't ALL bad, cuz he has a gentle side that can give his queen some nice tingles. but, trouble in the house of Saddam! Serenity has radiation cancer. ha ha, no way! "that's ironic that your own atom bombs are killing your own wife!" she chuckles to him. (i'm not kidding, thats her actual reaction to learning that her beloved husband has killed not just her parents and most of the world, but also soon to be her).

and, another unfortunate issue. the world isn't just taking Lazuli's tyranny and genocide lying down! there are uprisings. a group called the Resistance is fighting back against him. Serenity even used to be a part of them! but not anymore, no sirree. jeez, can't they tell the situation has changed?! after all, SHE is the queen of the world now, and ain't nobody gonna dethrone her and her lover Saddam. Mr. + Mrs. Lazuli, partners in tyranny forever, xoxoxo. those suckers have no idea she's turned to the dark side, but they sure as heck find out when she betrays them all, tells Lazuli all their secrets so they can all be killed, and her best friend gets captured because of it! haha it's so romantic when Lazuli has him tortured, because of COURSE Lazuli is also a torturist on top of all all his other lovely qualities. but Serenity is all like, u noe wat, i think my own evil self does have a *bit* of standards though, so you gotta stop torturing my buddy. so lulz, Lazuli lets off and just blows the kid away instead, fondly reminiscing about how "soft" he's getting now that's he's a married dude.

later there's also a lovely scene where Serenity visits her father's body in the morgue, sheds some crocodile tears for him, and then goes home to have some smokin' hot sex with his killer.

so yes, basically this is the most repulsive duo of people i have ever encountered in a "romance." i felt nauseated the whole way through this book and only finished it so that i could write the review with nobody complaining i should have finished the book because we find out the Lazuli was just really the fall guy for all those nasty things you heard about him. nope. i wanted Lazuli to die the way through the book, and by the time the end had come, Serenity had also revealed what a horrific human being she was and i was praying the Resistance would take her down as well. some other reviewers have compared this book to the Hunger Games - and they're right. this is exactly like a Hunger Games alt universe in which Katniss falls in love with President Snow, joins the Capital and fights beside him to oppress District 12.

P.S. just to make the novel even lovelier, Serenity is a teenager and Lazuli "appeared to be in his mid-thirties, but was actually much older." but the grossness of that pales in comparison to the fact that oh right, he's a sociopathic dictator who killed most of his species so he could rule the rest of it.
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4.5 Stars

My head is spinning in the aftermath of this intense series opener. Only the first book and I’m already going a bit crazy. This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It’s action-packed and led by a moral compass set spinning like a wild top, and it leaves me feeling so many conflicted emotions about characters, events, choices, etc.

Does this book contain some controversial elements and characters? Yes it most certainly does. But weirdly enough it’s those uneasy knots in morality that elevate this book above its peers. First and foremost this is a book about war and war is a realm where right is wrong and wrong is right and love is hate and hate is love and everything spins and twists and gets tangled and muddied until you’re not sure which way is up only that you know you don’t want to drown.

This book, nay this series is likely the type of series that you’ll either be sucked right into or you’ll barely get five chapters in before tossing it aside with a resounding No Thanks.

Unrepentant bloodshed, sacrificial freedom, and love between monsters born of war, this is but the beginnings of the dark tale of THE QUEEN OF ALL THAT DIES. A dystopian story that will have your adrenaline pounding in your veins, your mind spinning between rights and wrongs, and your feet on constantly shifting ground, this book is the first in a trilogy that is sure to take your breath away with its intensity and daring.

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I found the plot to be a bit over the top and the story dragged. I understood Serenity's hatred for the King, that I do, afterall the King has pretty much taken everyone and everything she loved in the most brutal way imaginable. What I didn't understand was the King's instant love (obssession, really) for Serenity. He sees her walking down towards him for the first time ever, and he falls really hard for her then and there. To the point where he's willing to give Serenity's people everything they ask for, in exchange for Serenity's hand in marriage. Sorry, as much as I love romance novels and love-at-first-sight storyline, there has to be something (a dialogue, a scene, anything) that would make me understand the reason for the King to agree to such a steep price to marry someone he just meets. This book failed to convince me of that.

Regardless, I downloaded books 2 and 3 simply because I wanted to know the end of the story
After finishing Pestilence by LT, I immediately sought another book by her. And got disappointed.
We have a whiney, self-important heroine, with a veneer of toughness, tantrum-prone, spoiled and dramatic. We have a bad case of insta-love for the main male character (beats me why)... And we also have the same concept of "the weight of the world upon her sholders" as in Pestilence - I would have loved something new.
But whereas Pestilence is consistent, with a nice upbild, a totally different class, this one is shallow and all over the place.