Review: The Queen's Gambit

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When the Quint Confederacy and the Kos Empire went to war—again—Queen Samara wisely kept her Rogue Coalition out of the conflict. But staying neutral in a galactic war doesn’t pay the bills, not when both sides refuse to trade with neutral sectors. With her people on the brink of starvation, Samara hatches a daring plan to snatch the kidnapped Kos Emperor from the Quint mercenaries holding him. The Kos Empire will pay a fortune for their emperor’s return, enough to feed the Coalition’s citizens while they wait for the return to a begrudging peace. But when her plan goes sideways, Samara finds herself evading Quint mercenaries with the very man she intends to capture. And the more time she spends with Valentin Kos, the more she realizes that he’s not the coldly indifferent villain she imagined. Torn between duty and desire, Samara must decide if saving her people is worth giving up the one thing she’s always wanted.

Genre: science fiction / science fiction romance

Publication date: July 2018

Mature content: general violence associated to a war scenario

Review: This is one of Jessie Mihalik's earlier works and book one in the Rogue Queen series. It's not as good as her latest books, and it's in fact a novella, so it's a pretty quick read and then you need to follow with book two if you want to know what happens next with Valentin and Samara, but it's still a great story and I was still hooked from the first pages.

 

 

   

 

I'm definitely going to move forward to book two (and likely then book three) and will post reviews of those once I finish them.

 

Happy readings,

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