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A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
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.