Emily Blackwood: Prince of Sins and Shadows

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62229268-prince-of-sins-and-shadows

Fae of Rewyth Book 2

This book picks up right where the first book left off Jade has been trying to just survive among the Fae after marrying the Prince but with someone still after her and not knowing who she can trust things get a little more difficult when she and her new husband are told (by the King, her new father-in-law) they need to go to live in the Human territory where they are not a fan of Fae and not a fan of her either now that she is married to one.

While in the human territory Jade and Malachi begin to learn more about Malachi's mother who is now in the picture and how Jade is now part of a bigger plan, she could potentially be the key to everything but since she is new to all of this this is the first time she's hearing of any of it.

When they are summoned into enemy territory more dangers lurk... and that includes the danger of falling for her husband.  Will Jade and Malachi ever be safe?  Will she be able to live up to his mother's expectations?  Who can they trust in enemy territory?  

Honestly this book doesn't really have much that clarifies anything in this magical world, we don't get to really know our couple better and they don't get to know each other better either.  

*Fae prince X Human female  *magical world  *Romantasy  *age gap (haha) *family secrets/drama

*touch her and 💀 *enemies to more  *strangers to more *young adult  *need to read in order

Thoughts:

The first book lacked some world building and explanations for any of their magic systems and I overlooked most of that during the first book due to it being a series of 5 books with time for more explanations.  This book had potential to be good the thoughts were started... I think of it like ordering a grilled cheese sandwich but when you get it they didn't grill the bread and the cheese is not melted so it's just a cheese sandwich if the sandwich was actually grilled (story better developed) it could still be an amazing sandwich.  

The plot was thin, the author has added a possible second love interest for our FMC... but she clearly doesn't feel that way for him, we don't get to know our main characters better and our MMC spends a good portion of the book avoiding our FMC but they are somehow "in love"... not sure how that happened when they  haven't had a true conversation throughout most of the book.

The MMC's mom believes Jade to be part of this prophecy where she will help unite the lands and create peace she knows "certain things" will happen but she doesn't share any of it with the class so we are still in the dark about all that stuff.  

I'll probably continue the series for now while knowing that the rest of the series will probably continue with the same types of elements as this one.  Time will tell.  Not much really happened in this book until everything was happening too quickly considering the slow pace of the book... was like going 0-60 in the last few chapters.  

Book 1 blog post:  https://elbyslibrary.blogspot.com/2026/01/emily-blackwood-house-of-lies-and-sorrow.html