The Unseelie Prince (Maze of Shadows Book 1)

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Valroy will do anything to get his crown as he is determined to make Earth and Tir n’Aill his dominion. Born in death and blood he is going to crush the self-righteous Seelie who stand in his way. He's the Villain of this story but I ... like him. I feel bad for what he's endured and still enduring, but that doesn't mean what he did and the decisions he continues to take are ok. She was deliciously weak, painfully whiny and ridden with a victim complex so strong she could not see/understand her own power and tap onto it for shit, and that's OK! We're a judge-free zone here, matter of fact, I love whiny weak bitches who wait for others to solve their shit for them and get nothing but broken ribs and stuff. Truly phenomenal LMAO Everything under the sun and moon, on Earth and Tir n’Aill, little witch. Everything. Including you.” Valroy steals Abigail, a human that everyone believes is cursed. She has no family of her own and had been abandoned by her husband, which left her frustrated and destitute.

I enjoyed this one a lot. This is my second Kingsley series, and while I really like her work, I saw some parallels between those I’ve already read:

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Anfar is a grump, who tries to be helpful but really isn’t. I personally love his grumpy disposition and that’s why he ends up as a favorite.

Facing the choice of killing the Bloody Prince or winning she starts to think that maybe she should just give up the desire to win. Now personality-wise he’s cruel sadistic ruthless arrogant and thoughtless. He relishes the pain and suffering he brings delighting in the suffering he causes this is his nature and he makes no apologies for that fact but with Abigail he slowly finds himself feeling differently when it comes to her he finds her suffering is not as sweet as he’d expected it to be. He still delights in tormenting her but he has no real desire to cause her any true pain a fact that initially confounds and confuses him in fact he’s now seriously considering keeping her around after the inevitable wedding. The Unseelie Prince gets 5 stars from me. BookTok is absolutely giving me winners for good series reads. Too bad I keep reading the entire series within a few days. Especially when the world building and character development is as great as this.Although clearly there's sexual attraction, true love isn't shoehorned in, and there's not really any physical acts conducted outside of some heavy petting during the throes of an aphrodisiac-like poison (I would argue that anyone under the influence of something like a magical drug can't really consent, so, this wasn't amazing, but the author does have Abigail claim she consented to Valroy touching her and that she was in control enough to know what she agreed to, so, I won't press it too hard.)