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leahharlann's review against another edition
After an initially interesting set-up, it just gets incredibly boring when the pace becomes GLACIAL in order to stretch out the pining and angst between the Female Lead and the first Male Lead. There had only been a couple of interesting interactions between the FL and the second ML (who was likely endgame) but nothing else and no real plot progression to even keep me engaged. I was too bored to even skim to the end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse
Moderate: Self harm and Animal death
booknookmandy's review against another edition
4.0
TW: parental abuse (non-physical), gas lighting
This book was a bit frustrating to read. On one hand the prose was beautiful, if you love anything to do with the fae this is your book right here. The culture and lore was rich, the world building was beautiful, it was set up so nicely. On the other hand I wanted to strangle our FMC no less than 5 times.
Fia is a half human half Folk woman, a changeling stolen into the human lands in exchange for the queen's real daughter. She grows up trying to gain everyone's love by doing anything and everything she's told. She's molded into a weapon and taught to hate her fae side and abilities. It was quite sad how much she hated half of herself. She falls in love with her childhood best friend, Prince Rogan, he's the only one who shows her any kindness but he leaves her when she's 16 right after they took their friendship to the next level. But it's four years later and he's returned and they've been thrown together and tasked with rescuing the real princess, his betrothed, from the fae lands. Awkward!
Fia, while I felt so bad for her the way she grew up, she is constantly falling prey to people's lies because she craves that love she was never really given. Each time she fell into bed with Rogan I was like GIRL! COME ON! He didn't love ALL of her, most of her yes, but he couldn't get past that fae side and if it's not all of her then it shouldn't be any of her. This was somewhat of a love triangle (UGHHHHH! I loathe them!) but there's not really a big struggle of who to choose or anything. When the tall dark handsome villain shows up we know who endgame is going to be right? lol Irian is definitely hot and softens for her pretty quickly, their exchanges of stories was cute and I liked how Fia didn't get phased by his wicked side.
The ending is a bit of a soft cliff hanger because the fate of the Folk is left hanging, we don't know what's going on but you get a satisfaction that our couple made it. I will be continuing the series because I need that bitch to get her comeuppance but I hope our mains will be making less frustrating decisions in their lives. Thank you so much to Orbit books for providing me with an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
This book was a bit frustrating to read. On one hand the prose was beautiful, if you love anything to do with the fae this is your book right here. The culture and lore was rich, the world building was beautiful, it was set up so nicely. On the other hand I wanted to strangle our FMC no less than 5 times.
Fia is a half human half Folk woman, a changeling stolen into the human lands in exchange for the queen's real daughter. She grows up trying to gain everyone's love by doing anything and everything she's told. She's molded into a weapon and taught to hate her fae side and abilities. It was quite sad how much she hated half of herself. She falls in love with her childhood best friend, Prince Rogan, he's the only one who shows her any kindness but he leaves her when she's 16 right after they took their friendship to the next level. But it's four years later and he's returned and they've been thrown together and tasked with rescuing the real princess, his betrothed, from the fae lands. Awkward!
Fia, while I felt so bad for her the way she grew up, she is constantly falling prey to people's lies because she craves that love she was never really given. Each time she fell into bed with Rogan I was like GIRL! COME ON! He didn't love ALL of her, most of her yes, but he couldn't get past that fae side and if it's not all of her then it shouldn't be any of her. This was somewhat of a love triangle (UGHHHHH! I loathe them!) but there's not really a big struggle of who to choose or anything. When the tall dark handsome villain shows up we know who endgame is going to be right? lol Irian is definitely hot and softens for her pretty quickly, their exchanges of stories was cute and I liked how Fia didn't get phased by his wicked side.
The ending is a bit of a soft cliff hanger because the fate of the Folk is left hanging, we don't know what's going on but you get a satisfaction that our couple made it. I will be continuing the series because I need that bitch to get her comeuppance but I hope our mains will be making less frustrating decisions in their lives. Thank you so much to Orbit books for providing me with an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death and Gaslighting
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