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Summary
SHE LIVES BY HER INTUITION. HE FEEDS ON HER PLEASURE.
Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian―royalty who feed on mortal pleasure.
Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value to the power-hungry of the world, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for his protection, she grants him information.
When her intuition leads her to save a traveling prince in dire trouble, the voice inside her blazes with warning―and promise. Today he’ll bring her joy. One day he’ll be her doom.
When the Baron takes an interest in the traveling prince and the prince takes an interest in Calista, she becomes the prince’s temporary companion. But the city simmers with rebellion, and with knights and monsters at her city gates and a hungry prince in her bed, intuition may not be enough to keep her safe.
Calista must follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.
Facts
Published: September 2023
Length: 432
Genre: Fantasy
Format: e-ARC
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
Review
As the blurb doesn’t really give away what this book is about, I was very intrigued to get started. The story centres around Calista and is told entirely from her POV. Not a lot of information is given exactly about what Calista is, just that she has strong intuition and has talents that are unusual. She lives with the Baron of Archwood and in exchange for giving him information he gives her the protection, a place to live on his estate. One night her intuition leads her to saving Prince Thorne, a person who she has met before and is inexplicably drawn to.
The story took a little bit to pick up, I’m not someone who is put of by a lot of information dumping and its something I have come to expect from fantasy books, but there wasn’t a lot of this to begin with. Lis comes across as being somewhat sheltered about the world she lives, yes, she gives us a understanding of how she has been taught that the world works around her but I got a strong feeling that there is a lot of information that she has no idea about. Just reading about how others interact with her gives you sense that things are being hidden.
Things pick up when Thorne shows up. He has all the classic fantasy male characters vibes going for me. Still not sure what is actual deal is but I do think there is soooo much more that we don’t know about yet. I enjoyed the interactions between him and Lis, they do have a lot of spicy scenes which were fabulously executed. And the last few chapters were actioned packed, and I loved it!!
The only reason I’m not giving this a 5-star review is because I felt like the pacing was a bit to slow for me to begin with and also, I just needed more information about the hell was going on.
Overall, I can’t wait to read the next book, because I really thing this book only scratches at the surface of what is happening.
My Rating: 4/5
About the Author
# 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Charles Town, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become of passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can.
Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes Young Adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her Wicked Series has been optioned by PassionFlix. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was a Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
She is the owner of ApollyCon and The Origin Event, the successful annual events that features over hundred bestselling authors in Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult Fiction, panels, parties, and more.
