This could have been a very interesting story but the MC is so boundlessly pathetic I don't have the words to even express it. The only thing I can say is that within the more than a thousand books I have read so far I have not encountered an MC this pathetic.
If the MC was just medium levels of pathetic there would still be room for enjoyment here.
But not like this. ( )

Will this get me out of my reading rut? I hope so because I am OBSESSED. (And not just because the main character is named Abigail) ( )

4.5 stars

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:

➣ Asshole with a capital A, violent, tall as fuck H with a (deeply hidden, in fact buried so deep we only see glimpses in certain light) potential to obsessively love the heroine someday
➣ no-nonsense spunky h, who’s good and compassionate but takes none of the H’s shit, attracted to him despite her best efforts, even as she’s disgusted and terrified by some of his actions
➣ the setting: an otherworldly place that’s actually the H’s domain, and from which there is no escape…

That said, this was FUN. Kingsley wrote the Unseelie fae right, and the Moonlit Court she created here was as fascinating as it was deadly. “Beauty that kills,” indeed. I think some minor characters deserve more attention in future books, most notably Anfar; I’d really like to see how his situation with A plays out!

The romance here is a slow-burn, but the attraction between Valroy and Abigail is sizzling hot. Admittedly, I found both of their characters slightly childish sometimes (Abigail with her blushing and shyness; Valroy with his pulling-wings-off-flies behavior, his possessiveness that — at this point — is mostly like that of a child with his favorite toy taken away, complete with throwing tantrums, and his constant pulling of Abigail’s metaphorical pigtails), but I feel they matured a lot by the end of the book. And what a glorious cliffhanger this was… So dramatic! I’m grabbing the sequel as soon as I can. ( )