Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure Audiobook (Unabridged)

" This is an interesting subject about which not much has written for a general audience. Siler's research is very thorough, and she does a good job of portraying life in Hawaii during it's brief existence as a unified kingdom prior to annexation by the United States. She presents a sympathetic and nuanced biography of Lili'uokalani, Hawaii's last queen. Unfortunately she never really integrates the biography with another theme put forth in her subtitle, "America's First Imperial Adventure", and the result is a narrative that feels disorganized. The book also suffers from very sloppy editing, with far too many typos and grammatical and syntactical errors; the author was not particularly well served by the publisher. "

" Interesting subject and I loved that I found this book just before I went to Hawaii for the first time. It gave me a much better sense of Hawaiian history and culture. At the same time, it was actually rather a dry recitation of the story and didn't keep my interest. I finished it more out of obligation. "

" Would have been five stars, but there were too many typos. "

" While this book covers the end of Hawaii's monarchy well...it turns out that the story behind it all is not very interesting. This author's biography of Robert Mondavi was so much better. "

" Sad but true; the Hawaiians were simply screwed over by "Manifest Destiny". They should join a class action suit with the Native Americans! "

" An interesting historical account of Hawaii, on the whole quite good. "

" A clear, balanced account of a complicated event. Very well written and readable. "

" This book managed to make the history of 19th century Hawaii boring. This could have been a wonderful book in the hands of a better writer. Got a third of the way through before I gave up. Life is simply too short to spend it slogging through books I don't enjoy. :/ "

" A fascinating, richly detailed, and vividly told chronicle of how greedy white businessmen conspired to depose the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii and overthrow the sovereign government, leading to annexation by the United States in 1898. "

" History of the reign of the last queen of Hawaii. Dry and slow. "