As twenty-third in line to the throne and a teenager, she’s really like a lamb being thrown to the wolves. And she begins to learn that there are people in the city with larger problems than “my dad wants me to go to a party and I don’t wanna.” Readers will likely want to cheer her along her journey because she comes across as such an underdog.
She learns that she really should have been paying attention to the rules of court if she wants to survive there. To be fair, Freya does grow throughout the book. After all, who needs social skills when you’re so much more intellectual than all those other rich people?
And she detests girls like Madeleine Wolff who are pretty and adept at navigating social situations with wit and grace. Freya, you see, would rather conduct experiments in her lab than attend to the court. Long May She Reign is one of those books with a protagonist readers are supposed to cheer because she “isn’t like the other girls.” Unfortunately, this makes her all too much like a host of other YA protagonists. “Perhaps you’ll have to kiss him again, if you’re not sure.
She imagines she can leave the ruling to the council but, with a murderer still at large, trusting others may cost Freya her life. Unfortunately, Freya never paid much attention to the court or to the country. But someone poisons nearly the entire court at a banquet and suddenly the reclusive teen is expected to rule a nation. As twenty-third in line to the throne, Freya never expected to be queen.
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