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The Unseelie Prince by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

25 reviews

januaryt123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Grief, Blood, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Gore, Infertility, Torture, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

lalunablue's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Sexual harassment

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

littlewishling's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.0

Kingsley has crafted a really interesting and dark world that I'm looking forward to exploring. I'm not sure how I'm going to come round to the romance that's building but we shall see.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

etidae's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

3.75

• Slow burn 
• Unhinged MMC 
• NA romantasy 

First book doesn't have spice but spice adjacent moments. Definitely a horny book without the spice but I suspect there'll be spice later! 

• Enemies to lovers
• Close proximity 
• Dark fantasy/romantasy 

Some dark themes. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence

Dark adult themes, violence, sexual language etc

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.

fritopie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Rape

booksoflore's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

God I don’t know how this book was such an incredible train wreck. Like, the beginning? So good! Loved the scorned wife dynamic she had going. And then I really couldn’t understand the pace or the story of this book. Nothing made sense. The timeline was so horribly horribly off. There was a chunk in the middle that was just so bad that I stopped reading for like 4 months. The ending??? Pisses me off. But only because there’s a second book and honestly I would have liked it if that was the end honestly. Read those triggers because holy shit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, War, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

yomaddjesty's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Gore, Animal death, Death, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: War, Torture, Suicide attempt, Infertility, and Self harm

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