The Queen of Blood

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The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, Book 1) by Sarah Beth Durst

I like that this book doesn’t waste time with exposition, but at the the same time, I feel like it needs to. Primarily when it comes to the environments and the spirits. Beyond what element they are, there’s not a whole lot else describing them. This, combined with not having a lay of the land, made it a little difficult to wrap my head around what exactly was happening in certain scenes.

Eventually, I decided I was going to picture the spirits as some kind of humanoid flying fairy formed by their respective element (I know that’s probably completely wrong, but there wasn’t a whole lot to go off off). But then that image completely fell apart when one of the spirits gets cut and starts to bleed... like, blood. Now I don’t want to criticize the authors world building (especially since I didn’t fully understand it), but an elemental spirit bleeding normal blood seemed a little weird to me.