In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling from a gutting betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth of her own blood. She’s left only with one certainty: she cannot trust anyone, least of all Raihn.
The House of Night, too, is surrounded by enemies. Raihn’s own nobles are none too eager to accept a Turned king, especially one who was once a slave. And the House of Blood digs their claws into the kingdom, threatening to tear it apart from the inside.
When Raihn offers Oraya a secret alliance, taking the deal is her only chance at reclaiming her kingdom–and gaining her vengeance against the lover who betrayed her. But to do so, she’ll need to harness a devastating ancient power, intertwined with her father’s greatest secrets.
But with enemies closing in on all sides, nothing is as it seems. As she unravels her past and faces her future, Oraya finds herself forced to choose between the bloody reality of seizing power – and the devastating love that could be her downfall.
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First line:
The king knew, in this moment, that his greatest love would also be his ruination, and that both would come in the unlikely form of a young human woman.
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Source:
Source:
Kindle Unlimited
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2 ashes out of 5
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The hype was real for this series and I was so disappointed by it. First off, I get that Oraya is a human in a world of vampires, but you don't have to shove the fact that she is weak in comparison down our throats by having her get badly injured every single time she is in an actual fight. It makes me doubt that she should have survived everything. Also, I hated the enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers. I love enemies to lovers but this was extra. I wanted them to stay enemies and one of them kill the other. Girl, he killed your father in front of you and you still got with him????? And I hated the whole hearing Victor's voice thing. I was always unclear if he was actually speaking to her or if it was just her conjuring it. It was not well done, especially since the Night Court isn't supposed to have Mind Magic like that. I loved the interludes in the first book, but they felt clunking in the second book.
I know a lot of people loved these books, but I was definitely just annoyed. It had a lot of potential but I didn't enjoy the execution
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