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Bound to the Shadow Prince
by Ruby Dixon
That was a wild ride and unfortunately not in a good way.
The premise of the book was intriguing, the execution not so much. A princess and a prince from rival kingdoms are sent to a tower where they have to stay for seven years in order to appease their goddess and stop her from cursing their kingdoms. Although as I’m typing this out it sounds ridiculous. Anyway. Candra’s sister was trained for life in the tower (what?) but when she dies in a shipwreck, Candra must take her place and spend seven years locked up with the enemy.
I will say this: there were interesting parts and the plot itself wasn’t bad — there just wasn’t a lot of it.
Another big issue: the characters. Candra is a spoiled, lazy and vapid princess who can’t do anything by herself and she was overall just very irritating. Her rival, the Fellian warrior prince Nemeth was honestly just boring. They obviously hate each other at first but then (surprise, surprise) start sleeping together at some point. And after the 30% mark or so it’s just straight up smut with little to no plot and their “relationship” progresses very quickly. The plot doesn’t pick up until much later and even the the unexpected plot twists at the end can’t change the fact that this book should’ve been at least 200 pages shorter.
Thank you to Netgalley, Wattpad Books, and Ruby Dixon for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
The premise of the book was intriguing, the execution not so much. A princess and a prince from rival kingdoms are sent to a tower where they have to stay for seven years in order to appease their goddess and stop her from cursing their kingdoms. Although as I’m typing this out it sounds ridiculous. Anyway. Candra’s sister was trained for life in the tower (what?) but when she dies in a shipwreck, Candra must take her place and spend seven years locked up with the enemy.
I will say this: there were interesting parts and the plot itself wasn’t bad — there just wasn’t a lot of it.
Another big issue: the characters. Candra is a spoiled, lazy and vapid princess who can’t do anything by herself and she was overall just very irritating. Her rival, the Fellian warrior prince Nemeth was honestly just boring. They obviously hate each other at first but then (surprise, surprise) start sleeping together at some point. And after the 30% mark or so it’s just straight up smut with little to no plot and their “relationship” progresses very quickly. The plot doesn’t pick up until much later and even the the unexpected plot twists at the end can’t change the fact that this book should’ve been at least 200 pages shorter.
Thank you to Netgalley, Wattpad Books, and Ruby Dixon for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.