Talk:The Royal Heir, Book 2 Choices/@comment-37801603-20200610225144

I have two gripes with that total BS ending - first, Barthelemy (always was suspicious of him, but what’s done is done) isn’t even a sitting lord. Where and how does he have any authority whatsoever to be calling this all-too-convenient “Conventus”? I know there’s conventions for limiting a monarch’s practical powers, but who in their right mind ever heard of a “vote of no confidence” in a sitting monarch? I know this is fiction, but the monarchist in me finds this outrageous situation beyond ridiculous.

My second gripe is, whatever Barthelemy promised them or threatened them with to get their support, where were the other noble houses - aside from Nevrakis and Beaumont - when Liam and MC were struggling to expose Auvernal and get them out of Cordonia? Sitting on their thumbs, not doing a darn thing, that’s what. They’ve no business judging a sitting monarch’s fitness when they didn’t lift a finger to help get rid of those insufferable Auvernese bullies.

All I can say is I hope the people who betrayed Liam and MC are ready to face some royal displeasure when the dust settles at the end of Book 3, because if I don’t hear some extremely compelling reasons why I shouldn’t, my king and his queen will be kicking a few noble lords to the curb.