A review by curlywombat
The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick

Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.

Writing was stilted and felt like someone had done a lot of research about the history but didn’t know how to translate it to real dialogue/thoughts. Had a lot of passages of people’s thoughts where they clunkily explained exposition or how they were feeling and why in very straightforward ways that didn’t feel natural. I could tell that if the whole book was like this, I was going to be very bored.