Kara's Reviews > Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

I learned so many things. Growing up in Hawaii, I learned about the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarch and Queen Liliuokalani's days imprisoned in her palace, but I didn't learn the who. I knew about Dole, but I hadn't fully realized that a lot of other familiar names (Judd, Thurston, Castle) were the very people who led the overthrow. Queen Liliuokalani named names. This is her memoir, her telling of the events, and she wrote this with conviction.

I'd skip the audiobook though. I really like Emily Woo Zeller generally--I've listened to a few of her books--but her pronunciation of some of the Hawaiian words really took me out of the story, and I wish, especially for this topic, they found someone who spoke Hawaiian to narrate.