Her Majesty’s Swarm

I feels as most if not all of the characters the queen meets usually dies,get turn into one of the swarm, or isn't important enough. there seem to almost no support characters besides the main ones. The queen losses someone she cares about and then bam revenge. Really hope the next books doesn't basically do the same thing as the first three books

Disappointing. Without spoilers, the plot is paper thin and riddled with holes. Assuming you've read books 1 and 2, little inconsistencies keep piling up. The queen writes up a contract and later can't read. Roland teaches the swarm to use boats, but certain someone's mysteriously can't swim. The swarm, once praised for deftness, can't figure out how to build walls without being micromanaged by the queen, yet she wants them to build boats? The concepts of the novel is beyond the scope the author can deliver. Units that seem perfect useful just sort of disappear for a while or seem criminally under utilized. The author bragged about the protagonist's abilities, yet she chronically commits rookie mistakes. Literally, says something is a rookie mistake, explains why it's a bad idea, provides a good argument why it shouldn't be done, does it anyways, then exclaims "hindsight is 20/20." The story is just bad.

I dont really know how to describe it but this book made me sad. It's not bad bye any means but it made me feel sad. I just keep stopping in the middle of pages just to remember one of the side characters. It plagues me even as I write this review for a good book. It just a hollow victory.