Attain Crown Of Shadows (Court Of Midnight And Deception #1) Depicted By K.M. Shea Delivered In Leaflet
“Rhonda! Rhonda, weve got a rider of the apocalypse in the drive through!”
read February
Marriage of convenience Check.
Assassins Check.
Sensible and hilarious heroines Check,
Slow burn romance Check,
Tricksy Fae bargains Check,
They say to write the book you want to read, but in this case, my book has already been written.
A couple of notes:
has been one big readers block for me even if Im interested in a book, its been difficult to finish.
However, once I started reading this, I couldnt put it down, and basically binge read the entire trilogy in the space of three days.
The Court of Midnight and Deception is a spinoff/sequel series to Sheas Hall of Blood and Mercy.
I read Magic Forged a while back and it was a bit iffy for me, mainly because of the vampire romance aspect.
As a general rule, Im not much of a vampire person unless, of course, he just happens to speak Korean and owns a tie frog.
cough While I was familiar with characters like Hazel and the Paragon, and this is fairly interconnected with the previous series, I think this could be read as a stand alone, as long as you dont mind potential spoilers.
Theres also a Fae lawyer, which is kind of my favorite thing because Ive always thought that would be an excellent profession for the race who basically invented the loophole.
I really appreciated that the romance was fun and slowburn and not really a whole lot of drama.
The world building!! Gotta love the “night mares, ”
Clearly, a lot of thought was put into the characters, They feel very layered, not stereotypes,
Theres something to be said for serious, epic sagas, but the way to my heart is through humor.
I laughed so hard at different times throughout the series, Maybe not the best thing when its:and everyone else in the house is asleep, but I couldnt restrain laughing out loud at some of the scenes particularly those involving Leila talking about Rigel to the other court rulers.
Content:
Language: Mentions of a character swearing, but no actual words said
Violence: Mild some fights with monsters, including giant spiders
Sensuality: Mild.
An ongoing joke throughout the series involves Leila talking about a characters abs,
Oh My Stars!
SO GOOD!!!!
I laughedmore like cackled out loud soooooo many times! K.
M. Shea does not disappoint with these characters, I adore them all and of course The ParagonMy is amazing as ever.
. So excited for the next book! Eek!!!
starts jumping up and down like a kid on Christmas Who runs the world
Those who understand power and the best methods to upset it.
In this adjacent series to the “Hall of Blood and Mercy,” Shea is back with an incredible cast of characters and another fun, well written romp into the world of fantasy.
Leila is a force to be reckoned with, and shes not backing down,
If youre looking for political intrigue, creative uses of magic and influence, and expressions of love for coffeethis is DEFINITELY a series youll want to check out! If you liked Pet from the City Between books, you'll definitely like Leila.
Thoroughly enjoyed this buoyant take on fae politicking and would happily pick up the sequelRigel has some arc coming and it bodes well D Half fae and half human Leila prefers humans over the duplicitous and backstabbing fae, but when she is marked as the new Queen the Night Court she finds herself right in the middle of fae life/society.
Enemies at every turn she is determined to eradicate the power games that are destroying the court, but to wear her crown she needs to marry, an archaic tradition that has her more than a little peeved.
Sadly we don't get a moment like in Princess Diariesthe movie where she says gets the law changed and I don't think it will be coming in bookeither.
I liked the heroine, she has me interested in seeing where things will go, Hoping for more compelling world building in the next book and for some sizzle and spark between her and a certain assassin.
I'm curious to see what will happen next so will read bookat some point if it's free or on KU.
On KU. I've discarded my rambly analytical bullet points in favor of this, but, . .
WOAH!! Just WOAH!! The writing, pacing, the character development, the relationships and side characters and progressions were just, . perfect. Ten points for amazing parental figures for the main heroine andpoints for her slow character development, I love the fact that the heroine doesn't end up fully fixing her prejudice but DOES do her best.
No big negatives, honestly, . .
Okay, this is the first time I found myself relating so closely to a heroine, Usually, there might be one aspect of a heroine that I can, of course, relate to, but I hardly ever find myself easily able to connect to someone though liking is usually simple.
But LEILA! She is SO brutal, blunt, and sassy, . . and maybe I'm not really like her, but she is what I kind of aim to be, The reactions and actions she takes are so, well, yes. I really DID love the characters, and the sides of course and that cameo of Hazel and Killian, :P And the way the court politics were navigated was fantastic,
Also, as a last kudos, . . the way Shea mixed modern technology in a fantasy setting was phenomenal and felt so natural,
Finally ANIMALS!! ACH! I want ALL of them as my pets!!
Content: Arachnophobic people be a bit wary Some violence but nothing romantic yet smirks This series starts after the end of Killian and Hazel's book.
It's about Leila, their neighbor who trained the dogs, This is a terrific series if its been a while since you read Hazels book, I say that because Leila is Hazel with another name basically and the same for Killian and Rigel, They both have the same temperament, the same moral compass, the same quirks, they could be the same people.
There is no romance in this book, just banter between the two main characters,
Since its being a while for me, I enjoyed this book, I like Leila's fun personality and her trolling the nobles, Can't wait to read more, This book is free on Amazon today ,
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The heroine of this fun book is Leila, whom readers of Hall of Blood and Mercy will remember as the Drake family's neighbor with the dogs amp the donkey who helped Hazel after she was kicked out.
It's not necessary to have read the Hall of Blood and Mercy trilogy to read this one, but it will help you better understand the magicverse Leila lives in and it's a totally awesome series, anyway
Leila is half humanhalf fae, but prefers humanity over duplicitous fae like her biological father who abandoned her amp her mother.
So she's more than a little surprised when fae creatures start showing up on her farm including one who tries to kill her, but is stopped by some invisible force amp calls her "queen" before retreating.
The story is exciting amp frequently amusing, If Leila sounds quite a bit like Hazel at times, it's surely because they are such good friends amp hang out together a lot.
The Crown of Shadows's description lets you know what's going to happen in the main, but the details are where the heart amp life of the story reside as Leila figures out her place in a world where she is unwelcome and she doesn't want to be, either.
The setup for Leila's relationship with Rigel is here, but romance lovers will have to wait for the next installment for it to develop.
Romance level: nothing graphic safe for general consumption
Parental Caveat: the fae are not able to lie, which has made them geniuses at lying by omission amp obfuscation, Leila, being only half fae, CAN lie, and it's depicted as an advantage for her yet ironically, she despises the fae's untrustworthiness amp dishonesty.
I don't see it as reason for forbidding the book it's pretty obviously just comic level entertainment BUT it's a great opportunity to talk about the ways people can lie amp how easily we can fall into hypocrisy even as we fault others I found this while browsing KU.
I've read Shea before and I thought the premise was good so I gave it a go, Parts of it were kind of campy and over the top silly and the middle almost lost me, but I ended up liking it enough to download the second in the series.
I thought Leila was kind of funny to start with, but she seemed petty and immature toward the middle of the book.
She kept doing things to embarrass the nobles of her court, which seemed so strange to me, She definitely showed her age and lack of maturity with all of her antics, Still, I was curious what would happen with her court and the Wraith, so I kept reading, I'm glad I finished and I'm looking forward to the next book, but I think this was only about a.
read for me.
Funny, entertaining, imaginative A delightful read. I really like Leila and how she deals with the Court, I'm all for the type of MC that deals with problems headon.
I liked the premise, and the pacing made it easy to get caught up on the flow of the story.
Also, I really, reeally appreciate the depth given to the side characters where we are left wondering about them and theorising about their hidden motivations.
I'm looking at you .
'Wraith' Stars
He stared at me, “Youre planning something. ”
“Only sort of,” I said,
He shrugged. “Dont bring ruin to our Court, ”
With that “beautiful” and “touching” advice, he left,
ˏˋ A Visual of My Thoughts After Reading ˎˊ
It has been confirmed, sitelinkK.
M. Shea is an official favorite author of mine, What a time to be alive
stay tuned for a longer review in the future.If it werent for the promise that I had made myself last year, I wouldnt have even bothered with a review.
. . i'll probably write a series review once i finish books two and three
I promised myself that Ill try to write something, anything about every book I finish and put on Goodreads.
It is my fault, all right I am waiting for the January because it seems that all the good books were pilled up for that month and until then I am swimming in the pool of shallow plots.
This is a rip off of the ACOTAR or not even that series, maybe any kind of series that had a heroine that lusted after some forbidden bad wolf while she had to keep afloat a kingdom that she somehow inherited.
It says something about this book that I have even thought to give it a chance and more than that, to finish it.
Just from that premise it is better than many others that I have read
and DNF even in the middle because they were getting so atrocious.
I should not be so harsh, It is hard writing a book, Maybe everybody wants to write something that would sell, I mean, you wouldnt want to bring your Publishing House to bankruptcy with your first release, would you
This book was about a girl that was chosen my magical horses to be the next queen of the most badass court in the faerie.
She was named queen in time before an assassin tried to kill her, He did not succeed. However, he was successful at stealing her heart not ad literam!, It goes on that she is crowned as new queen and she goes around the palace, trying to solve really weird specific problems.
She is buying time as she has to chose her consort, It is a weird made up law of that court that a queen could only official start her reign after she had chosen a consort.
Which, fine, if the author didnt find a smarter way to bring the love interests together, well go with this.
What could we do
I for one I am still stuck at home, waiting for the January books.
I will take it.
”I had focused on surviving the way the fae wanted me to I didn't play up the strengths I had that they didnt.
Id let them drag me into their game, and protested by being snippy with them, when in reality I could just change the game.
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Look at an almost pretty quote,
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