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The Midnight Queen

Fantasy is one of my favorite genres, so I jumped at the chance to read The Midnight Queen. This is the first book in the Noctis Magicae trilogy by Sylvia Izzo Hunter. The story centers around a student at Merlin College named Gray that is sent on a mission by his professor that goes horribly wrong. Gray is forced to go home with his mentor for the summer to his house where he resides with his three daughters. Even though women are not allowed to study magic, the professor's middle child Sophie has been practicing. Together Sophie and Gray unravel a mystery surrounding Sophie's family and a horrible plot against the king.

I really wanted to enjoy this book. The premise was really promising and the characters or a few of them at least were pretty interesting. I loved the humor that was added by the youngest sister Joanna and the mystery that surrounded Mrs. Wallis. I also enjoyed that there was a bit of love story included with all of the magic. I also really enjoyed the time period of which the story was set. I however had a hard time getting through this book. It seemed to be very slow getting from one part of the action to another. It felt as though there were too many scenes added that made the book a bit tedious to read. That is, parts of the story that did not move it along but rather distracted from the story. I did find the overall story interesting but as I said did find it very difficult to get through.



I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review

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