2019 SF/romance novella, second of a trilogy. Queen Samara is visiting
Emperor Valentin to try to help him find the traitor among his advisors.
Which means gorgeous gowns and verbal fencing and almost
getting laid, and lots of fights. These novellas seem to be the "good
bits" editions of what might have been novels, concentrating on the
scenes of emotional payoff, and thereby to my mind missing some of the
emotional buildup; I haven't met Samara enough to care about her,
even though she's a first-person narrator. (And it appears that "Rani"
is her actual surname.)
It's quite fun but slight in the extreme, suffering both from being a
novella carrying the weight of a novel and from being a middle
volume-.
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