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Book: The Unready Queen

Author: William Ritter

Book Series: The Oddmire Book 2

Rating: 5/5

Recommended For...: Middle Graders, adventure

Publication Date: June 23, 2020

Genre: MG Fantasy

Recommended Age: 10+ (adventure, violence, war mention)

Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers

Pages: 320

Synopsis: Human and goblin brothers Cole and Tinn are finding their way back to normal after their journey to the heart of the Oddmire. Normal, unfortunately, wants nothing to do with them. Fable, the daughter of the Queen of the Deep Dark, has her first true friends in the brothers. The Queen allows Fable to visit Tinn and Cole as long as she promises to stay quiet and out of sight—concealing herself and her magic from the townspeople of Endsborough.

But when the trio discovers that humans are destroying the Wild Wood and the lives of its creatures for their own dark purposes, Fable cannot stay quiet. As the unspoken truce between the people of Endsborough and the inhabitants of the Wild Wood crumbles, violence escalates, threatening war and bringing Fable’s mother closer to the fulfillment of a deadly prophecy that could leave Fable a most Unready Queen.

Review: This was such an enjoyable book! I really liked story, even more than I did in the first book, and I thought the character development was much better in this book as well. The book also had a lot of world building and I thought the writing was very well done overall. It’s definitely a series I would recommend to any young child who likes adventure books.

My only complaint about the novel is the pacing in some places and that I thought that some of the minor characters could have been better well developed, but it was a very well done novel.

Verdict: Highly recommend!