The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

by Erika Johansen

She’d thrown a full tantrum on the library carpet, complete with tears and screaming, even kicking her feet against the floor in frustration. Carlin had no patience with theatrics; she tried to reason with Kelsea for only a few minutes before disappearing into her library.

So Kelsea is throwing the tantrum on the library carpet and to get away from her, Carlin goes into the library? Someone should have caught this.

Kelsea had washed and ironed the dress herself and put it back in Carlin’s closet.

The dress she just ripped?

wsomen

typo

She knew she was heavier than she should be,

Can we just STOP already with the insidious comments that a woman "has" to be any specific size/shape to be worthwhile? Even years in the future when survival is the big concern, she's somehow absorbed the idea she's "heavier than she needs to be"? What does her weight have to do with ANYTHING?

Hat making continued to advance,

??? What does hat making have to do with anything? Oh, is she saying how they focusing on the trivial and not on learning to be doctors?

There were so many books there that he would have loved,

Maybe not. Not everyone loves to read. I don't understand them, but it's OK.

All of the romances were too old for her, and Carlin had never collected what she called “women’s literature.”

??? If Carlin doesn't collect "women's literature," why in the WORLD would she have romances? At least "women's lit" has literary value.

but if there was tobacco production in the Tearling, Kelsea had a whole new set of problems.

You have no doctors and starving people but tobacco production bothers you?

an old remnant of powers granted to the American executive.

The setting is weird. Like they know some stuff but live primitively. What do they have against windows anyway?