Title: The Queen
Series: The Masterpiece Duet #2
Author: Skye Warren
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 19, 2017
I have one chance at a new life. A college education. A
future outside of Tanglewood's dark walls. For a breathless moment it seems
like I might actually escape.
Then I get a phone call from home.
Damon Scott is my own personal dragon, the fight I've always lost, the secret hope of my heart. And he needs my help right now. Only my mind can solve the puzzle. Only my presence can keep him sane as the city fights against him.
Only my heart can unlock a man with such a tragic past.
This is my final gamble, with everything at stake. One last game to win a future for both of us.
And a love strong enough to break the city apart.
THE QUEEN is the final novel in the bestselling Masterpiece duet, about a game of lies and loyalty, of betrayal and power, and ascension to the city's throne.
Then I get a phone call from home.
Damon Scott is my own personal dragon, the fight I've always lost, the secret hope of my heart. And he needs my help right now. Only my mind can solve the puzzle. Only my presence can keep him sane as the city fights against him.
Only my heart can unlock a man with such a tragic past.
This is my final gamble, with everything at stake. One last game to win a future for both of us.
And a love strong enough to break the city apart.
THE QUEEN is the final novel in the bestselling Masterpiece duet, about a game of lies and loyalty, of betrayal and power, and ascension to the city's throne.
Holy sweet darkness! Skye Warren has done
it again. Her writing is always preciously addictive. As the title of the
conclusion of the Masterpiece Duet, she is a QUEEN. I can’t find the words to
express how much I love The Queen.
It’s an EPIC conclusion for this duet.
This book made my heart beat like the
wings of a wounded hummingbird. There was a permanent knot in my throat. Every
page had a bittersweet taste. I loved and hated at the same time.
Damon and Penny’ story was a dark fairy
tale which needed a perfect end and Skye Warren outdid herself in this book.
She made sure to not disappoint her readers.
The
Queen is
where all the secrets were revealed, where redemption and love got a new
meaning, where some sacrifices and kindness were wasted -in vain- just to keep
a monster trapped in a cage that will never contain him because of his evil and
twisted mind. Lust and passion; denial and fate, all wrapped in a page-turner
book.
Damon and Penny are strong wounded souls
and quite complex characters. I am pretty sure it was a bit complicated to give
them the end they deserved. I will miss them with all my heart. And for those
who read The Endgame Series, you will find more about Gabriel and Avery. They
do have an important appearance.
So let me tell you my own impressions
about this book. After losing a game with Damon, Penny is sent away to live far
from danger, away from Damon. She is a smart girl. She pretended the numbers
she loves will be enough to forget the man who save and hurt her. Being apart
is not only hurting her but Damon too. The dark king is enthralled with his
baby genius. There is something strong pushing him to her, something unknown
for him.
“Then how does Penny have such a strong hold over me? Why do I worry about her with every inhale, hope for her happiness with every exhale?”
Damon is poetically dark; a protector, a
predator ready to trap his pray. His presence is enough to rule everyone and
everything. He is a broken Prince ready to be the King. The only one who knows
how to end the monster. He hates and cares. His soul in not as darker as it
seems.
“You made me care. You made me want, when I needed to leave. You made me feel, when I would have preferred to die. You brought me back to life.”
Penny is the only one who knows the real
Damon. She is his weakness and the monster knows that. She pictures him as her
saviour. She stills sees the boy who cares for her when no one did, her damaged
angel.
“I have been waiting for this man, the illusion of him. Someone who doesn’t exist.”
They are meant to be apart. Damon's
priority is that Penny stays safe at any cost. But destiny had other plans for
them.
“And now here you are with your Bambi eyes, acting like you didn’t just walk into the dark fucking forest. What am I supposed to do with you?”
The man who hurt Penny the most is reborn
from ashes and he is ready for revenge. Damon is the one who knows him and he
will destroy him. It will not matter if his soul is destroyed in the way. Penny
is the most important piece of the game. She is not the child who was abused.
She is the equal to Damon. She understands it and she will sacrifice herself to
save her dark prince.
“If I’m a broke-down version of Cinderella, Damon is a very dark prince.”
This book is a fresh air, a read that will
trap you in a web of delicious darkness. One of the best read of 2017. There
are not enough stars to rate this book. A billon million stars is nearly close
for The Queen.
(ARC courtesy of author in exchange for an
honest review)
5 QUEEN stars! It is an EPIC conclusion for the Masterpiece Duet. Skye Warren outdid herself in this book.
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“And you’re the one who lost,” he says lightly.
“Do you know where he is?”
“Of course. Like you said, he works for me. I would be a careless employer if I let my men go wandering off, gambling and racking up debt and questioning their loyalty to me.”
A shiver runs through me. “Then where is he?”
“He’s a grown-up, Penny. Like you are now. He’s responsible for himself. You only need to worry about your studies. I’m sure Algebraic Topology is taking up plenty of your focus.”
It’s one of my courses this semester. How does he know that?
“Stop playing with me.”
“Why should I?” he says with a soft laugh. “It’s so much fun.”
Frustration stings my eyes, hot and damp. I look up at the wide-open sky, willing myself not to cry. There are a million stars visible here, most of the land owned by Smith College or one of the other campuses. So much land, so much pride. There aren’t buildings climbing on top of other buildings, as if they might sink into the concrete ground if they don’t. There aren’t glass towers reaching to an endless black sky.
“I’m never coming back,” I say abruptly.
His laugh falls silent. “I know.”
“I hate it there. I hate Tanglewood and being powerless. And most of all I hate you.”
The last part is a lie, because I don’t hate him. I’m drawn to him; I’m repelled by him. It’s far too complex a relationship, an equation I’ve never been able to write. It makes me wonder if I’m lying about the other parts—if maybe some twisted part of me misses home.
If some twisted part of me misses being powerless, too.
“Ah, Penny,” he says, sounding infinitely weary. “I hate you too.”
The words shock me, but the hurt inside shocks me more. He shouldn’t be able to wound me. Three years away from home, growing up, growing strong. It should have been enough armor to protect against anything he could say to me. But the arrow sinks deep, proving that I’ll never be able to escape him.
“What did I do to you?” I ask, quiet, in a voice like I’m six years old again. Like I’m speaking to the wild boy I found by the lake, one I lured into my trailer like a wolf.
He answers the same way, a surly teenage boy, fierce and vulnerable at once. “You made me care. You made me want, when I needed to leave. You made me feel, when I would have preferred to die. You brought me back to life.”
And I condemned him to torture. That’s what happened when he sacrificed himself so that I could stay safe. Two children with so few choices. “I’m sorry,” I whisper.
“Don’t worry. I got my revenge, after all.”
My blood runs cold, almost subzero at the words. There’s only one person left in my sad little family. One person he could hurt. “Did you hurt him?”
“By giving him a job when he couldn’t hold one down? By paying him enough that his daughter could escape the city, could go to a fancy college instead of becoming a corner-store whore? Yes, I’ve been horrible to him. A monster.”
“Then why isn’t he answering his phone?”
In the pause I can picture him in a three-piece suit, reclining in one of his ridiculously expensive leather chairs. Some amber liquid in a crystal-cut glass. “Don’t come back,” he says, his voice grim. “You made it out of here. Let that be enough.”
A soft click ends the connection, leaving me bereft.
And more worried than before.
Something is happening in Tanglewood, something bad enough for my father not to call, something horrible enough that even Damon Scott has warned me away. I look up at the infinite stars, but they’re dimmer than before. The whole world muted. It wasn’t a new life that I found so far from home. It was a long dream, and now I’m painfully awake.
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Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance such as the Chicago Underground series. Her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, two sweet dogs, and one evil cat.
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