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The Unseelie Prince by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

10 reviews

caseymac's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, Death, Body horror, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content and Gore

Minor: Infertility, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Animal death, Grief, War, and Torture

marajay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Bullying, Infertility, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Minor: War and Infertility

Few scenes are tense but nothing unbearable. Child/suicide spoiler-

child abuser and death in one scene depicting the kid being turned into a goblin. Kid wished his baby sister dead and the prince skinned him and turned him into a goblin as payment. Many side characters encourage female main to complete suicide to prevent a war and genocide. Assassination attempts happen and in the end she surrenders .

mentions of rape and her worries of such but one scene is questionable but no actual rape. She’s never illicitly tortured but stuff happens around her. Female main is infertile. Not a spoiler but just as a trigger warning.

spines's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I can't rate this a 5 solely because it was unsatisfying in the way it left me wanting more. thankfully there is more but holy shit holy shit holy shit!!!

my heart was in my throat for the whole last chapter. my heart was pounding while reading the whole book.

most fantasy enemies to lovers books do one of two things: enemy does bad things with good intentions, or out of misunderstandings, or is in some way cursed or forced to be bad, or enemy falls in insta-love and suddenly regrets everything he's done as he develops empathy. 

this one does neither. Valroy does bad things because he has to but also because he wants to. there is a twinge of pity and empathy in the fact that he was created for the purpose of cruelty, that it's all he's ever known, but he revels in it and does not wish to stop and this is unacceptable to Abigail. He doesn't even seem to understand why she finds him so abhorrent which makes it even harder to untangle her feelings for him.

Abigail is a perfect character. From first meeting she is downtrodden but warm-hearted, not in a Pollyanna cheerful way but just someone with a deep sense of empathy and justice. She's scrappy and insightful but she doesn't have the power to actually win her battles. The war between her lust and loathing for Valroys is much more palpable and realistic than other fantasy e2l protags and I adored everything she did. 

The setting is lush and intricately woven, the side characters are vibrant and lovable, the writing style had me desperately flipping to the next chapter, and I'm writing this as fast as I can so I can get to the sequel. Fucking stellar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Abandonment, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Infertility

sabinehunter's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Infertility, Toxic relationship, War, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

cassie12_21's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Slightly disturbed. Cliff hanger ending. I don’t know why I read this book, I didn’t like it, and yet I really want to see were this goes (not in a good way) 
Info on the rape: (he doesn't do it, its talked about)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Violence, Gore, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Infertility, Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicide, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit

acreatureofbooksandtea's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

So I genuinely hated everything about this book. Aside from the FMC, who was just generally unremarkable and unmemorable.
The start of the book was basically the same as the end of the book. There was no character growth or plot progression. It genuinely felt like I had just completely wasted my time reading through the book.

The MMC had no redeemable or likable qualities. He spends much of the story sexually harassing and assaulting the FMC, or putting her life in mortal danger while he goes off to take a nap. His whole plan is to use her to further his own goals—which will require him killing her—but wants to make sure he can use her for sex fist.
When he's not sexually harassing the FMC, he's enjoying the hell out of himself by killing. Everyone. Indiscriminately. In the most brutal ways possible. One scene in particular, he tortures and skins alive a 10-year-old boy before turning him into a monster, and he's having such a good time while he does it.

The FMC goes through one life threatening situation after another in this story, is constantly injured and hurt, and is forced throughout the entire story to go through extreme mental and emotional torment. She's treated as nothing but a playing by the MMC and a pawn by almost everyone else in the story, and because of the MMC she is always being target by someone or something trying to kill her. Or in one case, rape her and then kill her.

I picked this book up because the cover was beautiful, and it was listed as a fantasy romance. This story is not a romance. Nothing romantic, loving, or even consensually sexual happens between the MCs in this book. They lust after each other, and that's it.
The focus of the story is the MMC's aspirations for power, and the FMC trying to find a way out of the world of the fae. Ultimately neither of their plans come to fruition, and at the end of the book

the FMC commits suicide by walking into a field of carnivorous flowers and allowing them to burrow their vines into her body and consume her from the inside out

, which is something I wasn't expecting and really wished I could have avoided reading about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gaslighting, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, and Infertility

Minor: Cannibalism

parfwen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape

its_j's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Vomit

kathigh86's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I got this recommendation off of TikTok. I enjoyed the writing and there were few times where i wasn’t invested in the plot. SLOW burn romance. I will be starting the second book soon. I’ll be honest, I went into this book think I wouldn’t be able to finish the series, but I might be able to. If you liked ACOTAR I recommend this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Infertility

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Rape

folkofthebook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

If you love a toxic villain love interest à la the Darkling, look no further. Kathryn King's Valroy, Unseelie Prince, is the perfect wicked villain to sate your dark desires. Though there's less spice than I'd like in this book, there's plenty of mystery, intrigue, and constant teasing to drive you through to the very end (and I've read Julian Strande so I know King is going to deliver). Thankfully, the next installment comes out in December, which I will most definitely be reading.

Check TW/CWs cause these fae are NOT your friendly neighborhood Bat Boys from ACOTAR

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Cursing, and Death