Wavybrains read and liked Donna 's review of The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3):

"Two and a half stars. Compared to the first two books, this one was a big disappointment. SPOILER ALERT: The first two books had fantastic plot twists. Absolutely brilliant. This one, not at all. In fact, when Gen pulls off his little trick mor...more Two and a half stars. Compared to the first two books, this one was a big disappointment. SPOILER ALERT: The first two books had fantastic plot twists. Absolutely brilliant. This one, not at all. In fact, when Gen pulls off his little trick more than half way through the book, I thought the question of "Will he be accepted as King" was resolved. Yes, how that all played out was a plot twist, but not terribly unexpected. I knew Gen was up to something and would show his true colors eventually. Plus, there was still so much of the book left, I was waiting for that shocking revelation at the end that I'd come to expect from the first two books. I was excited to see what would happen next, now that the real Gen was out and about.

I was frustrated by his pointless return to acting like a nitwit. I kept expecting some sort of surprise at the end, some reason for all this, but there wasn't one. We never hear more about the Medes or the missing Sounis heir or about Eddis and the Mage. I thought more was going to happen there, but it didn't, and if the last third of the book weren't devoted to repeating the conflict of the first two thirds of the book, these things COULD'VE been dealt with. Where was my clever Gen? Reducing the Guard was his big goal? Are you kidding me? He could've done that in an afternoon (oh wait, he DID) and he could've done it the day after taking care of that baron. What was the big deal? It seems like all that was accomplished in the last part of the book was Gen pouting some more. Ugh, the more I think about it, the more frustrated I get. There were scenes in this book I really loved, so that's why I gave it three stars, but it's really not a full three stars. I'm so disappointed. :(

A later note:

Hmmm... I just read that there might be another book coming out. I thought this was a complete trilogy and so went into it with the expectation that certain storylines would get resolved. If there's another book coming out, I can live with that. However, I still don't like that the ENTIRE book was devoted to "Will Eugenides really accept being a King? Will everyone else really accept him?" As a reader, I KNEW what the answer was going to be. Of course the answer to both of those questions was YES! As I've already said, that felt resolved when he took out that house of the Baron anyway. And that's where that storyline should've ended. After that, I got sick of him dragging his feet. Maybe he didn't want to be king. Fine. I get it. I understand. Okay already. But he's not stupid and he knew (like everyone else in the book) that if he didn't act like a king, he would weaken the country. He. Knew. That. Yet, he decided to pout about it instead. To the detriment of his wife and his country. Nope. I'm not too happy about that.(less) "