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A review by jamsu
The Maleficent Faerie by Rebecca F. Kenney
4.0
Do you ever get the feeling like you will enjoy a book but past books have made you not trust that feeling? But then you read the book and you actually like it? That's me with The Maleficent Faerie.
The Maleficent Faerie is one of the best Sleeping Beauty retellings I've read. I usually hate the whole pretending to be someone else trope but I feel like it worked so well in this book. I had never read anything by this author before and I was drawn more to this one than the one about a sea witch but now that I've read this one I might get that one, too.
I was so relieved that I actually enjoyed this one. I never know what I get into by books recommended to me by Bookstagram and Booktok.
This is a fantasy romance story about Aura, who has been trained to protect the Princess but never to take her place but to keep the princess safe, she decides to glamour herself to look like the princess so she'd have the chance to run away and about Malec, the void king who cursed the princess and wants to use her blood.
I didn't pick this book up immediately when I got it but when I started reading, I couldn't stop. I haven't read many Sleeping Beauty retellings but I was so exited to read what happens next and I had some theories that I was actually right about.
The romance was enemies to lovers and I was there for every minute of it. I absolutely loved how even though Malec was an alpha male, he also liked to be dominated in bed. I'm glad he wasn't too obsessive about the princess and actually even talked about being disappointed how he wasn't be able to meet her bodyguard (not knowing it was really her) and called her blue-haired butterfly. Malec actually admired how she kept ruining his every attempt to captive the princess.
Malec became so many things to her: her defender, captor, murderer, lover, enemy and even her comfort and her doom. I really liked that despite being the "villain" he cared about her and didn't try too hard to smothers his feelings or make his plans above her in the end. It was inconvenient for him of course but I like a book more if the villain tries to put heroine first instead of just doing whatever he wants and it being okay just because he's not a good guy.
Overall, even though I didn't love it enough to rate it five stars it was a surprisingly good! If you're ever in a mood for Sleeping Beauty retelling with male Maleficent-- I definitely recommend this one.
The Maleficent Faerie is one of the best Sleeping Beauty retellings I've read. I usually hate the whole pretending to be someone else trope but I feel like it worked so well in this book. I had never read anything by this author before and I was drawn more to this one than the one about a sea witch but now that I've read this one I might get that one, too.
I was so relieved that I actually enjoyed this one. I never know what I get into by books recommended to me by Bookstagram and Booktok.
This is a fantasy romance story about Aura, who has been trained to protect the Princess but never to take her place but to keep the princess safe, she decides to glamour herself to look like the princess so she'd have the chance to run away and about Malec, the void king who cursed the princess and wants to use her blood.
I didn't pick this book up immediately when I got it but when I started reading, I couldn't stop. I haven't read many Sleeping Beauty retellings but I was so exited to read what happens next and I had some theories that I was actually right about.
The romance was enemies to lovers and I was there for every minute of it. I absolutely loved how even though Malec was an alpha male, he also liked to be dominated in bed. I'm glad he wasn't too obsessive about the princess and actually even talked about being disappointed how he wasn't be able to meet her bodyguard (not knowing it was really her) and called her blue-haired butterfly. Malec actually admired how she kept ruining his every attempt to captive the princess.
Malec became so many things to her: her defender, captor, murderer, lover, enemy and even her comfort and her doom. I really liked that despite being the "villain" he cared about her and didn't try too hard to smothers his feelings or make his plans above her in the end. It was inconvenient for him of course but I like a book more if the villain tries to put heroine first instead of just doing whatever he wants and it being okay just because he's not a good guy.
Overall, even though I didn't love it enough to rate it five stars it was a surprisingly good! If you're ever in a mood for Sleeping Beauty retelling with male Maleficent-- I definitely recommend this one.