Book Blurb:
A fake engagement, a threat in the shadows, and an obsessive suitor. This wasn’t what I signed up for….
It’s been a few short weeks since Gwyndolin was liberated from Lord Valen’s estate, and the Unseelie high king who freed her now owns her. Unless she can pull off this fake engagement and live with him for a year, he will let his people continue their assaults on hers.
Talk about sacrifice.
But this morally gray, violence-prone king won’t let her fall, not when he’s already fallen for her.
Enemies lurk in the shadows, and unseen villains threaten everything they’ve worked toward. Both love and betrayal come from the most unlikely places in this heart-stopping, enemies-to-lovers fae romantasy. Will love be enough to save them, or will it be their doom?
It is recommended (but not required) to read Of Fae and Wicked Kings before this. There will be spoilers for Of Fae and Wicked Kings if you read this first.
Tropes:
*Netgalley ALC *Enemies --> more *insta lust/love *Fake engagement *Romantasy *Fantasy
*Touch her and 💀 *protective MMC *Human FMC x Fae King MMC *Magical world
*betrayal *court drama *family curse *Morally Gray MMC
Thoughts:
I listened to the prequel to this book first which was a very fast paced insta love novella, there was very little world building in that and I had hoped for some world building in this book since it was a full length novel... but it didn't show up in this book either.
So the story --> Gwyn (human FMC) is a poor girl from a small village, her parents were tragically killed and she now has no family. In the first book she met the Unseelie king who fell madly in love with her after only a week or so of going on an adventure with her and another fae to help rescue a queen from a different region.
Gwyn has agreed to be courted by the Unseelie King Aspen who is super powerful and has fire magic in order to protect the people of her village from further attacks by the Fae... the villagers who have never bothered to treat her well or make her feel welcome.
While under Aspens protection she runs into Aspens twin brother Aethryn... who has ice magic and due to Fae superstition a curse was placed on the boys when they were born so that they would not become too powerful (essentially they have been cursed to always be at odds so they will never back each other up and become too powerful together).
Every man who comes in contact with Gwyn seems to become obsessed with her, me as the reader doesn't know why she didn't seem to do anything overly remarkable with any of these guys, I guess she has a rockin body or something? I don't know she ended up with 5 different potential love interests none of them really know her and she doesn't really know any of them but they know "she's the one" because she is "special."
Aspen's twin brother (one of the guys) also likes Gwyn and wants to be able to court her behind his brothers back... drama! by that time after only a handful of times of being together with King Aspen and no real discussion about anything meaningful she has decided that maybe being with him would be tolerable and that her hatred of King Aspen is in fact love.
Gwyn continues to go off on her own in the castle and throw off her guards that Aspen has placed with her for safety after she knows that there are many in the castle that don't want her there and she even had to witness the king 💀 a guy for hurting her... like girl you are not safe in this castle why do you keep going off on your own? Do you have any sense of self preservation??
I had a hard time really investing myself in these characters or anything that was happening to them because no one knew each other all that well so I didn't really feel it was all that big of a deal, and the betrayal that happened... that was just a grown man having a temper tantrum.
The story is fast paced and has several side plots that seem to make it so that nothing is fully formed and things I would think would be more crucial to the story are rushed through.
What kept me with this story was the narrators they were amazing I loved the accents too: Grace Noble, Gregory Salinas, Anthony Palmini and Ben Hall great job!
I did like the plot with the curse between the brothers.
This was a cozy read if you are looking for something lighter that's easy to follow with our without reading the prequel this might be a good one to grab.
Have you read this one? What did you think?
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