Reviews - A Forgery of Fate

625 reviews for:

A Forgery of Fate

Elizabeth Lim

4.28 AVERAGE

gwardyy's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

adrihean's review against another edition

3.0

“A Forgery of Fate,” by Elizabeth Lim

I love reading good Asian lore fantasy books. I loved the tropes of beauty and beast retelling, marriage of convenience, slow burn, dragons, lots of characters and Asian lore. I felt the story was too slow for my taste but overall, it was a good book. I liked the characters the most, they were well written and relatable and kept me interested in the story. 3 out of 5 stars.

-Marriage of convenience

-Slow burn

-Dragons

Thank you for the ARC, Netgalley.

elaceyg's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bama_bookworm's review against another edition

5.0

This book was amazing. I love how close Tru’s family is, and how loyal she is to her family. She will do anything for them. I love the Beauty and the Beast reimagining and the different worlds are beautiful and magical. There is an everyday world and an underwater world.

This story follows Tru who can paint the future. She starts off painting forgeries to help her family earn money so they can survive after her father goes missing on a sailing trip.

Elang is the cursed dragon prince. Half dragon and half human. Once their paths cross he offers Tru a deal to come paint for him and get married to him temporarily in exchange for money and jewels which would mean her family would be well taken care of.

This was a fast paced and well written story that has many twists, turns, and revelations. The story is layered and you find out many things as the story goes which will pull on those heart strings.

I was not sure I was going to like the ending depending on where it went but I loved it!

This if for those who love
✨ YA fantasy
✨ Lush and vivid underwater world
✨ Dragons
✨ Beauty and the Beast reimaginings
✨ Found family
✨ Cute critters
✨ Fake marriage
✨ Enemies to friends to lovers
✨Slow burn and yearning

Only thing I didn’t like was the use of “turds” as a curse word throughout the story lol.

Thank you to Random House Children’s Books and NetGalley for this arc. All opinions are my own.