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Lädt ... Bride of the Shadow Kingvon Sylvia Mercedes
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A shunned princess. A reluctant king. A marriage that could save both their kingdoms...but destroy their hearts. Though she is the oldest daughter, Princess Faraine lives in the background, shunned from court and kept out of sight. Her chronic illness makes her a liability to the crown, and she has learned to give place to her beautiful, favoured younger sister in all things. When the handsome and enigmatic Shadow King comes seeking a bride, Faraine is not surprised that her sister is his choice. Though not eager to take a human bride, King Vor is willing to do what is necessary for the sake of his people. When he meets the lively Princess Ilsevel, he quickly agrees to a marriage arrangement. So why can't he get the haunting eyes of her older sister out of his head? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I got this book on Kindle Unlimited and I didn't realize that this was the same author as the Moonfire Bride and Sunfire King--I deeply disliked both of those books. From what I can tell, the author knows how to write budding romance very well, but doesn't know how to write a solid ending without making everything absolutely terrible and borderline creepy first. Not like in an adventurous way, but like "needless murder of innocents, needlessly lying, and borderline non-consensual romance" type of way. All because the author doesn't want the heroine to seem like a Mary Sue. She ruins any sort of budding romance by making the man seem like a genuine, loving book-boyfriend who just wants to be happy and make his love happy and then she makes the heroine the worst example of humankind for no reason other than poorly executed "drama."
So I got about 170 pages in and I realized things were going in a direction that Moonfire Bride did. A King (with relatively modern thinking in a un-modern world that makes you fall in love with him as a reader), just trying to protect his people, makes a choice that he doesn't agree with but does anyway because he must do it for the safety of his kingdom. Then the heroine lies to him (in some way or another because the author thinks they only way to make them interesting is to make them selfish about the dumbest things), making the king make a political mistake that has very serious (two more books worth) of needless drama just so we can have book two turn into a BAD enemies to lovers trope. When I got to the "heartfasting" scene, it started getting eerily similar to Moonfire Bride, and I finally looked it up here on Goodreads.
Seeing that it was the same author using the same bad formula make me immediately DNF it. ( )