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Yours, Forever After by Beth Bolden
3.0
Okay, before you mention it, I know I’m a late comer with reviewing this book since it was published in 2019 but I have set myself a task to review all books that I read going forward. So keep an eye on the late coming reviews.
Blurb:
Prince Graham (Gray) is forced from his kingdom (aged 11) because of his weak, indulgent father. He has always sought his father’s love but the King had given him up to the kings aid and sorceress, Lady Sabrina. He escaped with his life and made it to the forest, stumbling upon Evrard – a talking, arrogant know-it-all unicorn – who leads him to the Valley of Lost Things to hide out.
15 years later, Prince Emory (Rory) was a book nerd, orphaned at a young age and was heir to his thrown. But the kingdom was under the Regent Queen’s (Sorceress, Lady Sabrina) rule until Rory came of age, or so he thought. Rory was charged by Sabrina to go out to the mountains to apprehend brigands and bring them to justice. Turns out, it was an ambush to kill Rory and leaving Sabrina to rule his kingdom and not him.
They both crossed paths and vowed to defeat Sabrina and reclaim their kingdoms with the help of Evrard. On their journey, they fell in love with each other but knew they could never be together with two separate kingdoms. Could they combined the Kingdoms? How would their people think of this? And will they defeat Sabrina?
Opinion:
I did enjoy this book but there are certain areas that could have been a little more-ish. Personally, I believe that the storyline started of with a bang, which I loved, but after the excitement, the writing seemed to have mired a little and became very slow. A lot of discussions about feelings, which is good, as long as it adds to the story line.
In saying that, I enjoyed the love story between the main characters. The way the author writes the character really makes you think and leaves some things open for interpretation - when the proposal of marriage is accepted with the use of the sword.
Evrard - wow what a prick. He is Marmite - you either love him or hate him. The writing truly reflected his attitude and arrogance which was amazing! I also love the twists of the relationship between Gray and Evrard from loving, to hating, to missing him at the end.
I'm going to be honest, Gray holds a lot of resentment and anger after everything that he has been through, and he showed signs of this throughout the book by sulking and using snide remarks. If he has been holding this anger for 15 years, I would be expecting his character to have a more darker side. Emory on the other hand was so naive that I don't think he could be trusted as king. So maybe they are well matched for one another and the ending happened the way that it did.
When they battled Sabrina, I was feeling a little let down – SPOILER! The way they vanquished her was so quick I was thinking why was there such a build up to it. I mean, yea, it is great news that they vanquished the sorceress but I wanted more of a battle rather than them walking through the door, ‘oh hey Sabrina, I’m here to kill you’ – DEAD!
Rating: 3 stars
I have given this 3/5. This is because of the writing style in the middle of the book. As I said, it was quite mired and slow throughout the main of the book. I actually found myself putting it down quite a number of times. I would say, with the age of the characters, the target market would be YA with a little bit of magic thrown in.
Blurb:
Prince Graham (Gray) is forced from his kingdom (aged 11) because of his weak, indulgent father. He has always sought his father’s love but the King had given him up to the kings aid and sorceress, Lady Sabrina. He escaped with his life and made it to the forest, stumbling upon Evrard – a talking, arrogant know-it-all unicorn – who leads him to the Valley of Lost Things to hide out.
15 years later, Prince Emory (Rory) was a book nerd, orphaned at a young age and was heir to his thrown. But the kingdom was under the Regent Queen’s (Sorceress, Lady Sabrina) rule until Rory came of age, or so he thought. Rory was charged by Sabrina to go out to the mountains to apprehend brigands and bring them to justice. Turns out, it was an ambush to kill Rory and leaving Sabrina to rule his kingdom and not him.
They both crossed paths and vowed to defeat Sabrina and reclaim their kingdoms with the help of Evrard. On their journey, they fell in love with each other but knew they could never be together with two separate kingdoms. Could they combined the Kingdoms? How would their people think of this? And will they defeat Sabrina?
Opinion:
I did enjoy this book but there are certain areas that could have been a little more-ish. Personally, I believe that the storyline started of with a bang, which I loved, but after the excitement, the writing seemed to have mired a little and became very slow. A lot of discussions about feelings, which is good, as long as it adds to the story line.
In saying that, I enjoyed the love story between the main characters. The way the author writes the character really makes you think and leaves some things open for interpretation - when the proposal of marriage is accepted with the use of the sword.
Evrard - wow what a prick. He is Marmite - you either love him or hate him. The writing truly reflected his attitude and arrogance which was amazing! I also love the twists of the relationship between Gray and Evrard from loving, to hating, to missing him at the end.
I'm going to be honest, Gray holds a lot of resentment and anger after everything that he has been through, and he showed signs of this throughout the book by sulking and using snide remarks. If he has been holding this anger for 15 years, I would be expecting his character to have a more darker side. Emory on the other hand was so naive that I don't think he could be trusted as king. So maybe they are well matched for one another and the ending happened the way that it did.
When they battled Sabrina, I was feeling a little let down – SPOILER! The way they vanquished her was so quick I was thinking why was there such a build up to it. I mean, yea, it is great news that they vanquished the sorceress but I wanted more of a battle rather than them walking through the door, ‘oh hey Sabrina, I’m here to kill you’ – DEAD!
Rating: 3 stars
I have given this 3/5. This is because of the writing style in the middle of the book. As I said, it was quite mired and slow throughout the main of the book. I actually found myself putting it down quite a number of times. I would say, with the age of the characters, the target market would be YA with a little bit of magic thrown in.