Review: A Queen Unlike Any Other
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
Hahahahaha!Oh god. This had to be the funniest dragon romance book I’ve ever read. I mean, ever.I’ll admit, I sided with everyone else and labelled Carolyn “Crazy” before I reached the end of Chapter 1. Then I changed the label to “Half-Crazy” before settling on “Crazy” once again. Granted, she’s not really crazy. I take that back. By herself, she is a bit looney but add the spirit of a dead Queen to the mix and you end up with a whole bunch of fun that’s waiting to be experienced.Reed said it best. “I’m not used to a Queen like you. None of us are.”Carolyn’s very human approach to what being Queen means makes her different from the Five Queens. She’s not interested in living in the lap of luxury while men seek her to have their eggs. She’s happy with a simple life and only wants one man. Unfortunately, that one man is Reed. Or maybe it should be fortunately.Reed’s a dragon through and through. He lives, eats, breathes, dreams, drinks, and sleeps dragon law and tradition. To be around Carolyn as she adapts to his people’s way of life turns him upside-down and leaves him banging his head on a wall because she really isn’t like any Queen he’s met before. Their arguments are amusing; it’s rare anything gets resolved between them. Their agreement to disagree seems to be the norm.Carolyn did keep me laughing. She has this hilarious habit of speaking her thoughts out loud without realizing it, which tends to make for interesting conversations between characters. But for all the fun and humor, there were plenty of serious parts of the story. The most poignant is close to the end. My heart bottomed out at what happened. The happy ending Carolyn thought she’d have, didn’t happen and the anguish she felt was almost tangible.Oh, don’t think she doesn’t get an HEA. She does. It’s just…different than what she thought but it suits her. She and Reed get their happily ever after, flying off into the sunset moment, and it’s well-deserved.Will there be more Queens from Ms. Schmidt? I hope so! The Queens might have been a rare breed at the beginning of this book, but the renewed hope for more at the end sets the stage to introduce more beautiful Queens who, like Carolyn, buck tradition and pursue the happily ever after they want, need, and deserve.***Received from Pump Up Your Book Tours and Entangled Publishing for an honest review***