AMAZON:

0, 99 EUROS (Kindle Edition).

PLOT:

Jessamine Emberlight has been chose to fight in the war against the Dark Kingdom, as the king's wildcard.

But there's a problem: Jessamine doesn't want to be the king's wildcard, but just normal Fae, taking care of her sisters and of her mother, and live peacefully a "normal" life.

She will soon learn that we can't get all we want, and saddly she will uncover much more than she bargained for, alongside a future that has been already writter for her.

Will she manage to survive the war? 

"Because you are so rare, so beautiful, and kindhearted"

PLOT (3,5):

Finally, I make myself known back in this kind of articles on the blog: aren't you happy?

I am here again to butcher the English language, so let's start.

First of all, I wanted to thank my friend Emily for sending me this in exchange of honest review; I was extremely excited of finally reading one of her books and I really hope to also be able to read soon her other book "Fortress of Wolves".

And since I am an extremely positive person, I'll start with the flaws I found, starting from a rushed first part, which brought an incomplete world-building, in fact you are left with a lot of question through the entire book.

I can see why the rush and incompleteness of the first part, knowing what comes next, which actually was extremely better than this first part, the one before the plot-twist; still I would have preferred a more complete and attentively written world, in order to give a better background to the story.

As I said the story changes completely when the plot-twist appears, and I have to say that I kind of expected it to happen, but the way it happened shocked me enough to say it was an extremely calculated and perfectly inserted plot-twist, which changed perfectly the atmosphere of the book, allowing us to delve into deeper themes.

I also do feel like the plot-twist gave us a totally different idea of what light and darkness are and how little they mean when you are talking about people and not symbols (also I do have to say I have a soft spot for the "Dark Team" of this book, they are just all too cute).

I do love Jessamine's behavior after everything that happened to her, I found it extremely fitting and in character and long the right amount to feel real and help you understand what the character is going through; also, I do have to say I am a fan of slow and careful healing, instead of a swift and reckless one,

This is not an action-packed story, but it has so much more than that, a romance tale, in a fantasy world, where everything isn't as it seems and mostly the light can be as cruel as the darkness.

(Also, this book contains sexual scenes, and a little trigger warning for rape and violence).

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