Queen of Coin and Whispers

I really wanted to like this story more. It was the ‘how' it ended that blew it for me. Sapphic fantasy romance with princesses and spies? Sign me up. I do understand why others wrote how there was a lack of spice between the two MC's. Honestly, I devoured the first 85% of the book. I forgave the lack of more, intimacy because this is a YA novel, and that perhaps the story bent more towards politics than it being a traditional romance. Which is fine. I was weaned on lesbian subtext, and there definitely was subtext in the first chunk of the story [if you blink, you'll miss it]- but after the climax of the story when things truly started to fall apart, it felt...even more sterile. The ending read more like a captain's log of daily events- and really wasn't satisfying. I finished the book a little annoyed. It bothers me when I invest my time to read something where most of it is really good, only for the last 10% of the story falling flat and is a completely different experience from how it started.