Saturday, August 30, 2025

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025--San Antonio

Penguin named The Stolden Queen by Fiona Davis one of the best books for the first half of 2025, but I disagree.   A major error occurred about halfway through as the 19-year-old character Annie, who has been taking care of her mother for 10 years in a hand-to-month living situation, rushes to their small basement apartment to quickly pack a bag and PICK UP HER PASSPORT!  Apparently neither the Columbia University graduate author nor her editor (presumably also a college graduate and living in New York) had the mental awareness to realize that a young woman in that situation would NOT have a passport and be unable to plan to leave the country for the first time in her life with a two-day notice.  As the fast-paced action took off from that point to its conclusion, there were just too many coincidences taking place at too fast a pace.  I thoroughly enjoyed the concept of the book and I finished it, but my rating kept falling after the mid-point until at the end of the book it landed at a generous 3 1/2 stars out of 4--not a qualifier for being named a best book of the first half of 2025!

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