Book Review: A Dance with the Fae Prince by Elise Kova

A Dance with the Fae Prince by Elise Kova
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Once again, Elise Kova kicked it out of the park with this book. I annotated this one, and I have to say, I really liked it, and on top of that, I found things I didn’t even know I liked. I would’ve given this book a three out of five stars if it wasn’t for Katria getting on my last nerve about not being in love and all that, but then after I saw her reasoning and how slow burn this romance was (I don’t even like slow burn romances that much) and why, because of her father and Joyce (whom I hate with a passion) showed her that she didn’t want to fall in love, but when Davien showed her what love is and told her that he’ll show her what it is, what love really is, she keeps shutting him down, calling him a liar each time.

To tell you the truth, I read this as a straight up fantasy novel, not a fantasy romance novel, so for me, romance is kinda low on the list of things I want in a fantasy novel. But the more the romance came up in the book, the more I actually…started…to…like…it? A lot? Though for a minute it started to aggravate me because she keeps turning him down. And the first time he walks in the room he tells her to close her eyes…like bruh, I want to see your face, I don’t want to hide it, darn it!

When they brought up the Boltov bloodline and how they’re taking out the Aviness bloodline so they can keep the throne, I got more interested in that than the romance. But watching Katria and Davien grow to fall in love and have it a slow burn romance was kinda fun to watch, tbh. How Katria killed the old Boltov king with just a knife was actually really good to see, because we get to see her grow from being the human who worked hard and was scarred, to being brave and strong to the point, she learns that she’s half fae and that they clipped her wings (ow that hurts). Davien thought the reason was that because her family kept her human and the way she was to keep her grounded, I guess.

At the end, Katria became Queen, she went back to the human world to get her horse and sister back, and she’s living happily ever after with Davien. This book was really good and very interesting to annotate, and if I could write a millions of things I loved about this book-from the worldbuilding and the history of Dreamsong and the Boltov and the Avieness family, then we’ll be here all day. So I’ll leave it here and keep thinking about both Davien and Katria.

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Book Review: A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova

A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was really good and I loved the relationship with Luella and Eldas. I actually fell in love with Eldas because the way the author described him, I thought I was reading a Thranduli fanfiction. Because, um, I fell for Eldas. He’s my little meow meow and I love him so much.

For about 20% of the book, I really hated Luella because all she does is complain and swears up and down and she wants to go home, but then she’s working in Willow’s shop and finding out how to break the cycle, which I’m like..why??? And then the question of her loving him…after she keeps fighting him step by step and swearing up and down that ‘oh, Eldas doesn’t love me, he’s using me.” and finding out, after shouting at the coronation that she loved him…and him saying it back…it kinda sweeten it a bit, but…I felt like it took a long time for her to say it. But then, it wouldn’t be Luella without her battling her feelings for someone that just came to her village and said that she’s his wife.

And King Eldas, my little meow meow…he was kinda worse like her. He honestly was like ‘well I like you, but you need to do your duty’ and was kinda controlling her, like ‘you must do this’ and ‘you must do that’ and those two butted heads all the damn time. But I do like that throughout the book they got together and started to work together, even when she figured out how to break the cycle, which…to be honest, pissed me off. I really didn’t want her to break the cycle, I wanted her to figure out how to control herself when it comes to the redwood throne, but once she figured it out and went home, she realized that for once in her damn life, she actually loves him. Close to the end. Like, what the fuck, my guy???

Hook is best character throughout the book, change my mind.

Willow is also best character throughout the book as well.

Harrow, I wanna punch in the face. As hard as I can. Then yell at him for believing Aria’s bullshit and taking drugs. Because by then, he’ll get punched again. But I’m glad he’s alright.

I know it looks like I’m bashing the book (I’m not, I promise) but I really enjoyed it. I love the relationship between Eldas and Luella, and how headstrong Luella is. Luella just got on my left nerve for a bit, and also I wanted to punch Harrow in the fuckin’ mouf. Not mouth-mouf.

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