Book Blurb:
A human, a fae warrior, and the wicked Unseelie king walk into a bar. Just kidding. There is no bar. But there is a quest to find a missing queen. And tension. Lots of tension.
When she and her love, Rowan, went to the Unseelie Court, Gwyndolin only intended to ask the Unseelie king to stop his fae from attacking the humans and Seelie fae. She did not intend for him to insert himself into their quest to find the high queen. But who can say no to the wicked High King Aspen? He takes what he wants, and he doesn’t care who he hurts in the process.
His magic may be useful, but his arrogant, flirtatious attitude may cause a rift between her and Rowan. She hates Aspen, and he seems to only want to antagonize her. So, why does it seem like there’s something else he’s hiding? And will it threaten everything when she finds out?
This novella, set in the realm of the Fae-blessed series but sometime before that series, is full of love, betrayal, and villains. Who doesn’t love villains? Of Fae and Wicked Kings is a dark fantasy romance
Tropes:
*Romantasy *Enemies --> More *Villain gets the girl *He falls first *touch her and 💀
*morally gray MMC *Dual POV *Plot twists *Betrayal *Novella
Thoughts:
I picked this one up after I got an ALC from Netgalley for Of thrones and savage things it was recommended this be read first prior to reading the next in the series.
Gwyndolin (Human FMC) teams up with Rowan (Fae and the one she has been falling in love with while they have been together). They are on a quest to find and save the queen but make a stop to see the King of another court... he is known to be untrustworthy and more on the evil side but they make their request for him to stop the attacks on their own people and then the plan is to be on their way but the shady king decides to join them on their journey.
On their trip the king begins flirting with Gwyndolin and she's not sure how to take this as she is in love with Rowan. On their journey some surprises happen and Gwyndolin is left thinking about what her future will be now that everything has changed including her view points.
So this has the beginnings of setting up several different plots but unfortunately for me nothing was fully formed or fully explained. Everything that was there happened so quickly that it didn't give me enough time to care about what was happening, there wasn't really back story on anything, the world building is slim and we don't have enough of any part of the story to fully grasp anything.
The king is head over heels with the FMC after only a few days (?) and willing to burn everything down for her... I didn't think it was that serious myself.
It did set up a cliffhanger of sorts so will see how things pan out in a the next story which is full length.
I listened to this and thought the narrators did a good job, it's really what kept me with the story.
did you read this one? what did you think?
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