I needed to know how the story ends—and if you’ve read this far, you will, too. This book is pretty heavy on gushy romance, but there was enough of the underlying story to keep me reading to the end.
There are a couple of supplemental books with more backstory for the superfans, but I think I’ve had more than enough romance for a while.
Sometimes the romantic fantasy turns into a nightmare. Thankfully in this case. There was nowhere interesting for the story to go, otherwise. Turns out the dreamy fairy prince is an overprotective, controlling asshole and the scary dark prince is actually a super respectful great guy haunted by a dark past who, let’s be honest, probably knows his way around a sex dungeon but would always get consent before tying anyone up.
Feyre, now a fairy herself, makes new friends and sets out to save the world from the evil fairy lord across the sea.
Romance isn’t really my thing, but there’s magic and fairies and a reasonably well-thought-out magic system and it’s such easy reading that I keep going. If you’re a little more interested in cheesy romance (and over-the-top sex scenes) than I am, you’ll probably love it as a guilty pleasure.
The fairy and human worlds are divided by a magic barrier and deep mistrust. A starving hunter kills a fairy in its wolf form, but she is kidnapped by a monstrous fairy lord—who happens to be suffering from a weird curse—as a consequence. Generous helpings of romance follow.
While reading this book I kept thinking I probably wouldn’t continue the series. But it was easy to read with just enough fantasy and adventure to keep me going, and the plot turns out to be thicker than it first appears. So by the end I was just interested enough to check out the next book.
