Queen Move (All the King's Men Series)

When you read a Kennedy Ryan book be prepared to work for it. Be prepared to learn and be schooled on different issues and ethnicities. Be prepared to have a woman that is an independent queen and knows her worth. Be prepared to have a man that knows his place and will sweep you right off your feet. Be prepared for a writer that takes risks and succeeds. When you read Kennedy Ryan, YOU will feel it all and the journey will be worth it in the end.

Queen Move is a real and messy romance that I absolutely loved and devoured. Part One really focuses on the history of our two main characters, Kimba and Ezra. These two characters came from different backgrounds, but they were as much a part of each other as a limb. They grew up next door from each other and their lives were so intertwined by their parents and simply by their ages. They were the best of friends that always supported one another through everything during the awkward childhood years. They had a love for one another that no one could ever explain. So when 20 years pass since they last see each other and they are in seemingly different places in their lives, it's no surprise their childhood connection is still there, strong as ever.

It feels like we were this one thing that was severed in half, and our parts want to be rejoined.

I want to go on and on and tell you about everything in the story. The journey Kimba takes from getting out from under her family's name to being one of the most powerful women in politics. To making hard choices for her as a woman and for her family. She is what you want to write about when you want to write a strong and powerful, yet beautiful woman that isn't perfect. I want to tell you about Ezra and his quiet dominance he had even as a child. How that changed and prepared him for the man he became. These two are people of their word. They don't make rash decisions and they don't just throw themselves into battle without a plan. But plans and rules are made to be broken. And someone surely will get hurt.

"Love is not a tidy thing, Kimba. It can't ever be perfect because none of us are. Someone at some point will make a mess. The test of that love is how you clean it up."

This story is raw perfection. It's well told and the pacing is just right. We get the history of Ezra and Kimba and we see them as they are now and how they are dealing with what life has thrown at them. Is it always pretty? No. Are the choices always black and white? No. But their chemistry scorches the pages. Even when they aren't in the same room, you could feel their thoughts and emotions jump off the page. Their inner monologue really affected me. It buried itself deep in my head and really grasped on. I think I would've been able to feel their connection even if they hadn't even spoken one word to one another. That's how palatable their thoughts were. They are beautiful, raw and inspiring and I absolutely Loved their journey, even during the messes and the tears.

With Queen Move you not only get a well written romance book with strong characters, but you'll get a book that will enlighten and inspire you. The strength and determination of the characters are at the forefront and I couldn't have asked for more. Even the supporting characters were perfectly placed and a good transition into the storyline. Family, love, complications....it's all there and it all makes for a book that will definitely stick with you. Go experience it for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

"We are made of choices and losses and triumphs and, yes, some happenstance. Ezra and I were made for this moment, made for each other exactly as we are now."

Oh my... I feel as if I always write the same thing when I review a Kennedy Ryan book: Character driven with multi-layers, strong storyline, excellent research, strong women, driven men, sexy, lyrical and poetic. Queen Move is no different. I have almost started taking her for granted in that I know I will have a book hangover for days after finishing. I love getting drunk on her words. We met Kimba in All The Kings Men duet and I have anxiously awaited her story. I was not disappointed but I was surprised. This is not just Kimba's story, it is also Ezra's. In true Kennedy Ryan fashion, Kimba was definitely a "queen". She was strong, confident, driven, a sexual being who did not suffer fools. Her story begins after the successful Presidential campaign that she and Lennix had achieved in The Rebel King with a flashback to her childhood. It shows who and where she came from. Ezra was an awkward, quiet boy born to a white Jewish mother and a black father. As so many children with different cultures, ethnicities and religions, Ezra was trying to find where he "fit." He lived his young life with a quiet strength and a moral compass with Kimba as his anchor, as he was also hers. Kimba (Tru) and Ezra (Ez) were born on the same day, in the same month, in the same year. They were woven together with quiet innocence, empathy and silent strength. Two halves of a whole. As is the norm, one moment in time can change everything. That moment in Queen Move was written so eloquently near the end of the book. As usual, Kennedy Ryan addresses modern topics as only she can, with compassion and empathy. After many, many years, Kimba and Ezra meet again at her fathers funeral. This is where the "adult" part of the book begins. It is heartbreaking, enlightening and so very, very real. As we had met Kimba before, we know how determined and dogged she is in her job and her life. She is fierce. I was so invested in Ezra. I loved that the awkward boy had grown into a moral, honorable, educated man who loved so damn hard. Life threw him punches, but he stood strong in his sense of self. He was a good man. Queen Move is more than a romance. It's the evolution and growth of two people who had left pieces of their hearts with each other in childhood. "I'm not overly religious, and I'm not sure what I believe about other lives, other worlds, and other dimensions. I do know if soul mates are real, Kimba is mine. I believe that if people are "created," we were made together. She was there for my scaffolding - there where my flesh was knit over my bones. And if love is not just an emotion, but a type of eternity, an infinity that lives in our hearts, then we have always been in love. It's an ageless thing that isn't about puberty or chronology, or even if we get to live our lives together. But when we are apart, I ache." Beautiful eloquence. Lyrically pure. Kennedy Ryan is a gift we should all treasure.

Kennedy's words are pure magic, they wrap around you like a warm blanket covering you in the complexity and prose that is singularly her, making you fall in love with every word she writes. Queen Move is beyond anything I could have expected, she blew the writing world apart with this beautifully written masterpiece.

“𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙩—𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙣.”—𝙉𝙚𝙞𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙮𝙨𝙤𝙣

I’m been dying for Kimba’s story ever since first meeting her in the All The Kings Men Duet. Kennedy always writes her heroines with this ferocity that makes you want to be more. They are strength personified and they always leave me with a sense that we can do and be anything we want! Kimba is without a doubt Queen, Kennedy wrote her with such realism that you feel as if you know her and you want to be apart of her life. She is so smart and determined nothing can stand in her way. But what I loved the most was when you saw her soft side, the parts that she kept hidden away so that she wouldn’t get hurt. It was those moments when I fell irrevocably in love with this character and everything she represents.

𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚.

Ezra is legit PERFECTION. This man with his violet eyes and wicked tongue will have you forgetting your own name. He is without a doubt a flawless match for Kimba. From the time they are children until the meet again, they have always been with each other even if it was just in memory. And it’s that connection that begs to break free when they come face to face again. The passion and intensity between them are palpable, every time they’re together you can feel it. It fills every room they are in growing and burning just waiting to burst free and incinerate everything in their path with the strength of it. I’m honestly surprised by Kindle didn’t burst into flames.

𝙃𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙤𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄’𝙢 𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨..

This story has you remembering the innocence of firsts, of childhood promises made with reckless abandon and the belief that things will always be this way. I loved watching Kimba and Ezra grow up together and the journey they took to become the people they are today. Kennedy made me believe in soulmates, everyone wants that soul deep all consuming once in a lifetime kind of love. The kind that makes your heart race and your soul ache. The kind that gives you not just butterfly’s but whole tidal waves that turn you inside out. That’s what Kimba and Ezra have, that kind of connection that makes you feel as if you were made just to love this person. Their story brought tears to my eyes and a deep ache to my soul, these two are absolute perfection and I am obsessed with their love!

𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩. 𝘼 𝙨𝙣𝙤𝙬-𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙮 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙, 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣.

Kennedy is always meticulous with her research and brings forth important issues that are relevant today and that wholeheartedly need to be addressed. I love that every time you get swept away into one of her stories it opens your eyes to prevalent matters in the world. Kennedy’s stories will hit you on a visceral level, you can’t help but have a physical reaction while reading. Her words are so poetic and intricate that you easily get lost to her words, so much so that you won’t want to come back. Kimba and Ezra are FLAWLESS, everything about them is real and natural, consuming the pages and leaving a permanent mark on your soul. Their journey wasn’t easy but it was them, and it was worth every second.

In romance, fated mates is a label conferred on couples whose pairing is written in the stars or nature or somewhere in the supernatural. It exists outside of logic and rationality. It’s a pairing that was simply meant to be. They complete each other and no one else will do. Traditionally, fated mates are something that only happens in paranormal romance or fantasy (see Romance 101: Fated Mates by Amanda Diehl on Book Riot). But in Kennedy Ryan’s Queen Move, a story about childhood best friends turned lovers, I believed that true love was this couple's destiny from the start.

Queen Move is contemporary romance, and technically there’s nothing supernatural about it— there’s nary a witch, vamp, or shapeshifter in sight. But the connection between the two main characters is its own kind of magic. Kimba and Ezra were born on the same day. They're neighbors and their mothers are close friends, so it makes sense that they’re be practically inseparable. As babies they bathe together and play together when they’re young and at the ripe old age of six, when Ezra learns about what marriage is, they marry each other in a back yard ceremony.

Their connection is the sweetest thing ever. No one else in the world really exists when these two are together. But that all crashes down and the connection is severed at age 13 when their families are torn apart by a mysterious fight no one will explain. Ezra’s family moves away and they both eventually get on with their lives and lose touch.

Two decades later, Ezra is living in Atlanta when Kimba returns home for a family event, and they reunite. It’s immediately clear that the connection that was severed so abruptly when they were teens never quite went away. But their lives are no longer simple. Ezra has been in a long term, (albeit troubled and on the cusp of separation), relationship for a decade and is raising a wonderful son with his partner. Kimba has an incredible career as a political consultant based in D.C. and a health issue that’s causing her to reevaluate some choices.

It’s a great setup. Ezra and Kimba are fated mates kept apart by circumstances out of their control long ago and now again. Both are public people under a fair amount of scrutiny. They have people relying on them, and their situation is messy. There are about a million ways that scenario could go very wrong, but Kennedy Ryan is the mistress of swoonily romantic, angsty, socially conscious romance with high heat. And Queen Move sets yet another high water mark for that type of romance.

What I love most about Kimba and Ezra is that their connection is multifaceted. There’s the magic— they’re the kids born on the same day who imprinted on each other like cubs before they even knew what love was. Kimba feels that keenly: “I can’t help but think when we were born on the same day, when we were made together our path was set…” And Ezra feels very much the same. And it’s lovely. But there are also concrete tangible reasons that these two people work well together as adults. I never doubted it that they fit and would make each others’ lives better. For one thing, they share values— they’ve both dedicated their lives to fighting for social justice in different ways— and they have an intellection connection and mutual respect.

There’s a lot of angst here, but none of it is about whether their love is true. They are soul mates. That’s a given. And yet, somehow, the stakes and the tension remain high. Ryan is afraid to make hard choices and she gives this couple some real hurdles to overcome. It’s never forced. It just feels real.

Beyond that, what pulls it all together is Kennedy Ryan's writing. She writes gorgeous, sometimes poetic, sentences bursting with passion. Kimba: “Daddy used to say don’t waste time on things that don’t set you on fire inside, and I haven’t. Every campaign, every election, each candidate—I’ve believed in. I believed that putting that person in power advanced one of my convictions.” She bites her bottom lip. “I felt the same about people. I didn’t want to waste time on anyone who didn’t set me on fire inside. And there have been people I liked, people I enjoyed sex with, but no one I wanted to build a life with. That’s why I never committed. No one ever set me on fire inside.” She looks over at me, her eyes telling me before her words do. “Until now. You set me on fire inside, Ezra Stern.”

“You set me on fire inside, Ezra Stern.” It’s a simple sentence but wow it’s just beautiful in that context. And also lovely that Kimba makes the connection between the people and the causes that set her on fire. This is the essence of what makes Ryan’s novels, Queen Move in particular, so special. She weaves the personal and the political together seamlessly and beautifully.

Overall Grade: More than 5 ⭐️. One of the top reads of 2020.

Remarkably, but not surprisingly, Kennedy Ryan has, once again, woven a romantic tapestry of ideas that challenge our thinking about identity, inclusion and diversity, and womanhood in her newest book, Queen Move. Sometimes, unbeknownst to the reader, opening and reading a Kennedy Ryan book is a step in activism. Her heroine’s father raises his children with the ideology that “big moves make big waves.” When you take one step into a Ryan romance, you are choosing to align yourself with the possibility of making big waves. Each Ryan story is intentional and grounded in hours and hours of her research about societal issues, challenging us to expand our knowledge and our thinking. As Kimba, her heroine, suggests “simply being myself is an act of resistance.” Likewise, simply inhaling the words of a Ryan romance is also a call to change.

To begin, the absolute power of this story is Ryan’s heroine, Kimba. She is the quintessential Kennedy Ryan heroine. At the very least, you should read Queen Move as it exemplifies the power of her heroines through one of her most impressive ones, Kimba. One of my favorite parts of reading certain authors is their surety in developing their voice and their “brand.” I don’t even know if “brand” is the right word, but their voice and style have evolved into creating archetypes specific to their brand of romance. And Kennedy Ryan’s heroines are an archetype. In the world of romance, they are a necessary character type. In brief, a Ryan heroine is always intelligent first, beautiful second. They are not perfect; their power comes in embracing their weakness and finding strength in the hero to support that weakness. Notice I didn’t say clarify it or correct it or complete it. Her heroines’ weaknesses are acknowledged and accepted by her heroes. Even more, Ryan oftentimes monopolizes on it and turns it into power. In Queen Move, this looks like Kimba’s stutter. I remember reading Ryan’s All the King’s Men duet and telling myself that Kimba’s words of wisdom for Lennix were always profound, insightful. As you read Queen Move, this is even more clear. Interestingly enough, Ryan gives her the weakness of a stutter. So, in the Ryan universe, the weakness of a character is the power of the greatest moments of her story. The stutterer is the most eloquent when it’s needed. You see this same thing happen over and over again with any of her heroines. She empowers their weakness. And in my most inarticulate of ways, that’s pretty da$n impressive.

Through Kimba, Ryan introduces us to the bits of her messages in Queen Move: the struggle of being a woman and the expectations for us to oftentimes sacrifice parts of ourselves to follow a dream. In Queen Move, infertility becomes a front and center message, along with the juggling of identities that women so often engage in. As Kimba moves from political strategist to daughter to sister to lover to woman, Ryan calls for us to recognize that feat. It becomes a reminder that the expectations for women feel sometimes more profound, and we sometimes sacrifice aspects of those identities as we inhabit the others. And that sacrifice oftentimes feels like a “lack.” Kimba encounters this feeling over and over again in this story that when one of the biggest moments comes in the book, Ryan has constructed this profound moment of emotion. It rolls over you tying your heart to her story. I would like to say that this is accidental or momentary or specific to this book, but it’s part and parcel for Ryan’s heroines. Her ability to craft of heroines is one of the many impressive tools in her writing toolbox.

Along with the Ryan heroine comes the Ryan hero. Now, there is a bit more diversity of this archetype. Quite often, they are incredibly alpha, always $exually adept meeting the deepest needs of their heroine, and intelligent (oh and don’t forget, handsome and virile). This intelligence isn’t only in terms of thinking; so often, they have an emotional intelligence that girds their maturity. They might make a rash decision (we see you Maxim), but they learn quickly from their mistakes and work diligently to rectify the situation. Like her heroine, these seem to be the innate qualities to her heroes. However, there are some differences in terms of traditional expressions of masculinity. With Ezra Stern, Ryan is playing with this idea. Ezra is a special brand of hero. Yes, he is traditionally masculine. Yet, Ryan molds him with soft edges. Fatherhood is a primary identity for him, and he wears it well. He offers us a complex mix of fathering with tenderness, insight, and awareness. He makes comments about guiding Noah to speak out his emotions. Ezra is the 21st-century father. He wants his children to express themselves and bring more into the world than take from it. As such, his children are aware and mature. It’s all of these traits that make it easy for you to fall in love with Ezra Stern. Add to that a willingness to be careful with his words, using them sparingly so that they are weighted. Kimba’s trust is easy with Ezra because his words are the commerce of his integrity and love.

Additionally, through Ryan’s creation of Ezra, one of her other messages finds its home: the idea of identity and diversity. This is one of the biggest messages of the story, and (not to undermine Kimba’s travails) it’s most profound. We live in a culturally, racially, $exually diverse society oftentimes at odds with each other. There are more and more instances of insensitivities to people’s differences, and an almost disinterest by certain segments of our society to be open and inclusive. Ryan’s solution, as outlined in Queen Move, is embracing it. Fall into each other; try new foods, new cultures. Be open; communicate. Recognize it. Know it. Read about it. Talk about it. Quite literally in this book, marry it and bring it all together. Ryan gives us her truth in the end when she says “[a] cacophony that from the outside looking in probably seems discordant and sounds like a mass of noise. But to us it makes sense, all the notes fitting together. Harmony where there would be chaos. The tastes, the sounds, the stories, gathered from distant lands, borne by our blood, blended in our bonds.” Through Ryan’s hero, Ezra, we are treated to the gravity of this message beyond her typical heroic archetype, and it should challenge us all to be better, to think better, and to do better.

Queen Move is a story of soul mates, a standard of Kennedy Ryan romance. Ezra and Kimba are Lennix and Maxim or Grip and Bristol or any of the couples of the Hoops series. They are fated. As such their journey is never easy, and that’s the masochistic fun in reading Ryan’s romance. One minute, you find yourself falling over yourself at Ryan’s powerful exemplifications of Ezra and Kimba’s love for each other, and the next minute, you find yourself crying at life’s disruptions to their journey. It’s this evil rollercoaster ride that a Ryan Reader embraces. You throw your hands up and live for the valleys and the highs because the story feels lived in for you. Their chemistry, their $exual attraction, their almost feral, base pairing adds more height and depth to their journey. Queen Move is just as fiery as her other books. That’s the magic of her pairings, and one of the many reasons we buy books like Queen Move.

When it comes to Kennedy Ryan’s style, there are few who touch her, in my opinion. There is a consciousness in detail after detail of her storytelling. The eloquence, the lilt, the rhythm of her words push you further and deeper into her story. It’s the cadence of her romance. The words equal the kisses and the emotions and the passion of her story. She knows how to build chemistry through pacing and her ability to create pictures, and it grounds you to her romance. Every word is intentional, and if you’re like me, you end her book with too many highlights in a variety of colors. For me, Kennedy Ryan’s voice slays me every single time, and Queen Move manifests this as all of her other books do. As I was reading this book, I wanted to shout to the heavens my adoration for Ryan because her prose flows through me like some type of life force. When I read and review books, there are very few times when the words for my review begin to come to me as I’m reading the story. My next comment is not hyperbole: Ryan’s style inspires the words of my reviews that they spring from my mind onto any scrap of paper or Google Doc that I can find while I’m reading her book. Her words quite simply inspire me and make me cry at their beauty.

When you choose to read Queen Move or any of Kennedy Ryan’s books, you are taking action: “an act of resistance.” What is involved in that act? Acknowledging that romance can be more than $ex or love or happy endings. Instead, romance books such as Queen Move can challenge our thinking and push us to be more, think better, and embrace change. Without any doubt, Queen Move is a “big move” sure to make” big waves” in a world of happily-ever-afters.

Kennedy Ryan has such a beautiful way of crafting her stories with rich and fully realized characters. I found this novel to be a bit more slice of life, with two strong and independent people at the center. This novel deals with people in their 30s who have careers, lifestyles and families that are their top priority. It was nice to read a story of two people who have know each other since the day they were born, to get some insight on their past friendship and to see how they interact with each other in their present day. It was also refreshing to see two people not just give up on their obligations but learn how to make room for a new relationship.

Kimba and Ezra have basically been best friends forever and were separated right as they were beginning to explore a new kind of love. Kimba is strong, determined and very hard working, she knows what she wants and she is able to process what life throws at her in a calm and typically clear headed way. Ezra is such a sweet heart, an absolute cinnamon roll. Ezra is smart and kinda, he is absolutely in love with Kimba and will do anything he can in order to make sure that she knows how much she means to him and that he will do anything for her to be his future.

I love that they have a very strong foundation of friendship and I love that this friendship has basically stood the test of time, it is a very charming idea that these two were born for each other. I really enjoyed watching these two people learn how to make themselves available for the other while learning what was most important to them and finding out where they needed to bend or change tactics in order to get what they needed out of life. This story felt realistic and I love that both Kimba and Ezra just knew they were meant for each other and that their separation over time did not effect this truth for them.

🛑SPOILERS🛑 ⭐️: 4.5/5

Talk about inclusion!?!?!

This book has multitude of representations. Everything was a talking point in the book, and I loved the fact that it was centered around Kimba, who in the previous two books was like a secondhand character.

I loved Kimba, and as a black woman, she beat the odds that are always set out against us. The topic of hair is a serious topic. As a person who wants to be in journalism, which includes being on camera, my hair has always been a topic I am scared people will judge me for. As for Kimba she was ambitious, and I liked that we didn't see Lennix much because we were able to focus on her and not compare. She led their company, and in the end, I was happy for what she accomplished. Her medical issues, including her speech, hit close to home. My brother deals with it, and when he has to read or do presentations, he is always nervous even during practice. I tell him all the time, just calm down and know you are doing what you need to do at the end of the day. Loved Kennedy's representation of it, including Kimba dealing with medical issues surrounding her choices to have children. As women, our time clocks are always brought up, and our bodies always like to think for themselves. Its alot, but it's an important discussion. Kimba, all I can say is that I love her.

Kennedy always seems to write the perfect heroes, including Ezra. It was important to see him grow up split between two races while trying to fit it. Both crowds were hard. The topic of being biracial is important and I just wish society will build more healthy conversations around it. But, Ezra was everything a woman would want to be smart, handsome, and wanted to do good for people, especially adolescents.

Kennedy sure does make it hard to choose the men you want.

This book was amazing, but I will say there are things that happened fast. That includes the affair between Ez and Tru moms. I kind of caught on to it early, but I wanted to know more. Like when did they know they were attracted to each other? When exactly did they start a relationship? It was so much I wanted to know. Plus, I felt like I didnt know at what pace things were happened because Ez and Tru get back together and then Aiko comes back and she is pregnant and a year and a half later Kimba gets back with him. It was truly a episode of Jerry Springer🤣. Straight from Kimbas mouth.

But, other than that, I loved the book, and I wouldn't change a thing. The important topics in relation to politics were fair, and I think Kennedy did well in writing about it. She criticized both sides equally. But, apart from that, Kimba and Ezra were nothing but chemistry. They were beautiful and sidenote. I loved seeing Lotus and her line being worn.

I 100٪ recommend this book, and I can't wait to read the bonus epilogue!