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The Flowered Blade
by Taylor Hubbard
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
What a freaking delight!
I've had this novel on my TBR for ages now, mainly because of that absolutely gorgeous cover and the promising blurb. I'm so glad I finally gave in and read it.
"The Flowered Blade" is an enemies-to-lovers romance between an orc and his captive/held-for-ransom elf (I LOVE CAPTOR/CAPTIVE ROMANCES SO MUCH!!!), featuring forbidden love, a whole lot of hurt/comfort, a even bigger lot of "who hurt you" and the most delicious pining ever! Plus WHEW, the steam.
Also, did I mention trans rep? Because YES! We've got a trans elf prince who'd much prefer to be a healer. And did I mention he's a delight?
I adored both protagonists to bits, but Silvyr, our elf prince, was my favourite. He's a cutie-patootie, absolutely friggin' adorable delight of an elf, with a whole lot of baggage.
He's also stupidly horny 24/7, and I had only respect for him for that. He either wanted to look at flowers, heal people OR climb Brokil like a tree. Only respect for our horny, botanist king 🙏🏻
That aside, I loved him so so so so much! I wanted to jump into the book and protect him. I also wanted to run his father over with a truck. I wanted to whisk him away until Brokil learnt to treat him better too.
Thankfully our (equally horny) orc got with the program after a bit; seeing them slowly learn to trust each other, fall for one another, spend quite a lot of pages being pining fools, was a delight.
I loved their romance so, so much! It had so much hurt/comfort, so much protective deliciousness from Brokil. This book was really written to hit alllllll my buttons.
Also, the steam factor was *chef's kiss* very, very, very good.
I loved the setting and I loved the side characters too! I never wanted to leave.
Was this book perfect? Probably not. It could have been trimmed at bit, edited slightly better as well, but did I care? Nope. I had the time of my life with it, and I'm really looking forward to reading more by this author.
Wholly recommended!
TWs/CWs: physical and emotional abuse from a parent, parent neglect, suicide ideation, torture, PTSD from said torture, violence, death.
I've had this novel on my TBR for ages now, mainly because of that absolutely gorgeous cover and the promising blurb. I'm so glad I finally gave in and read it.
"The Flowered Blade" is an enemies-to-lovers romance between an orc and his captive/held-for-ransom elf (I LOVE CAPTOR/CAPTIVE ROMANCES SO MUCH!!!), featuring forbidden love, a whole lot of hurt/comfort, a even bigger lot of "who hurt you" and the most delicious pining ever! Plus WHEW, the steam.
Also, did I mention trans rep? Because YES! We've got a trans elf prince who'd much prefer to be a healer. And did I mention he's a delight?
I adored both protagonists to bits, but Silvyr, our elf prince, was my favourite. He's a cutie-patootie, absolutely friggin' adorable delight of an elf, with a whole lot of baggage.
He's also stupidly horny 24/7, and I had only respect for him for that. He either wanted to look at flowers, heal people OR climb Brokil like a tree. Only respect for our horny, botanist king 🙏🏻
That aside, I loved him so so so so much! I wanted to jump into the book and protect him. I also wanted to run his father over with a truck. I wanted to whisk him away until Brokil learnt to treat him better too.
Thankfully our (equally horny) orc got with the program after a bit; seeing them slowly learn to trust each other, fall for one another, spend quite a lot of pages being pining fools, was a delight.
I loved their romance so, so much! It had so much hurt/comfort, so much protective deliciousness from Brokil. This book was really written to hit alllllll my buttons.
Also, the steam factor was *chef's kiss* very, very, very good.
I loved the setting and I loved the side characters too! I never wanted to leave.
Was this book perfect? Probably not. It could have been trimmed at bit, edited slightly better as well, but did I care? Nope. I had the time of my life with it, and I'm really looking forward to reading more by this author.
Wholly recommended!
TWs/CWs: physical and emotional abuse from a parent, parent neglect, suicide ideation, torture, PTSD from said torture, violence, death.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping