All Hail, the Queen of the Freaks

by T. HarRiMaN, Ko Sanders

Do you know the secret?The teenager C (short for “Catherine”) Query wishes she did. She doesn’t know how she awoke in the luxurious Paradiddle Lane, a resort town outside Chicago where billionaires go for a self-indulgent escape. C also doesn’t know how she acquired her mysterious ability to travel to other universes, dimensions, and times when she plays the piano. But she does know that evil enemies are hunting her, with murder on their minds. Can she outsmart them and find the truth in time to survive? And the deliciously attractive boys pursuing Whom can she trust, and who is the enemy?

431 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2024

About the author

T. HarRiMaN is convinced that fairy tales and magic are real, and that's kept her going through tough times in her life. She was born and raised in Newburgh, Indiana, near Evansville, which she considers the New Orleans of the Midwest.

She realized she wanted to be a writer when she was four and read THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD on her mother's lap.

Reviews

[Erin Cataldi · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was far too sober to read this book. If you are a fan of nonsense novels then you may enjoy this weird young adult novel. Otherwise steer clear! The book opens with a warning to go to the author's website to learn how to properly read the website (which seems like it would be useful because trying to find the plot in this book....) - the only problem is the website no longer exists. The "premise" of this young adult novel is that a young female teenager wakes up in a weird asylum with no memory of who she is - all she knows is that people are trying to kill her. She runs away and finds herself in Paradiddle Lane - a high end street in the suburbs of Chicago. She runs into a high end collectible shop (that is alive) and a lonely German man takes her in and decides to raise her as his own. He enrolls her in a school for ultra rich teens called Prep and there she makes friends with some billionaires. While playing around she discovers she can enter different dimensions and time travel. Her friends are like, "that's cool." Nothing in this book makes any sense - it's weird and ironic and annoying and I hate read the whole book. Not one of the characters is likable, there is no plot, there are so many weird nonsensical asides. It was too much for me. Read at your own risk.