•Genre: Fantasy
•Tropes: enemies to lovers, forced marriage, political, betrayal, snake-in-the-bag
•Pages: 364
•Series: The Folk of the Air
•Spice: 1/5️

Favorite Quote
“Because you will always destroy me.” - Cardan

Jude tries to behave herself in the human world but how can she manage when her husband is now the king of the fae who, of course, has exiled her? Cardan is in deep trouble, the fae scheme as if it’s an Olympic sport, and to top it all off, a curse appears that will “mix” everything up! Jude has to save the kingdom, face betrayals, break curses, and — hardest of all — manage her feelings for Cardan without stabbing him (too much). ️️

Political games, drama, magic, snakes, kings making foolish decisions, and a protagonist who saves everyone while trying to figure out if she’s still angry or in love.

And everything is fine and dandy up to this point, but I struggled tooth and nail to hold on to something in this book and not give up on it.
Plain and uninteresting writing, characters with no particular depth, and a plot that tried too hard to weave political intrigue but in the end just managed to go nowhere.

The world, while at many points tried to be magical and exciting, ultimately for me ended up being overly verbose and pointless.
No spark, no passion, no chemistry — and I don’t mean romantic — I mean between the characters in general.
A flat plot that never brought me to a climax, merged information overload, and the introduction of characters that most of the time added nothing to the story.
Honestly, if I weren’t so obsessive, I would have skipped pages in this book without any shame.
Sorry — not sorry —

That’s all.
I don’t know who I would recommend it to…..?
Ah! Maybe to those who want to get into a reading slump? ?‍♀️

Until the next book recommendation