Steph | bookedinsaigon’s Reviews > The Poet Empress > Status Update

“It could be the greatest nation in the world, the most magnificent empire there ever existed, but if it could not keep its own children safe and fed, was it really something worth fighting to save?”

Oh-HO.

HOLY LAST MINUTE FLABBERGASTED MOVE!!

If this is partially a villain origin story (with the prince), then it’s one of the best I’ve ever read.

How are monsters made? Are they born that way, or do they become that way, because the advice of their advisors changes them into the very definition of evil?

Oh whooaaa. It had been losing my interest, but this new development is mmMMMmmmMmm.

Actually not hating this so far.