Official blurb:
THE PRINCE AND THE LIBRARIAN . . .
Clara is an Obligate—a human servant at the Court of Dawn.
She doesn’t know why. She knows only that she broke the Pledge and must therefore spend her days obliging the every whim of a capricious fae princess. If she can keep her head down and follow the rules, she might survive to the end of her Obligation, spending her days working in the vast palace library.
But how can she stop devastatingly beautiful Lord Ivor from looking at her in that special way that makes her heart stutter? And how can she avoid the jealous fury of Princess Estrilde, who seeks to claim Lord Ivor for herself?
Most of all, how can she elude the conniving Prince of the Doomed City . . . who is determined to buy her Obligation for his own dark purposes?
Do you love all the lethal intrigues of a twisted fae court? Then don’t miss Entranced, book 1 of the Prince of the Doomed City series. Bargains and treachery abound in this tale of slow-burn romance and heart-pounding adventure about a roguish fae prince and a brave librarian.
My rating: five stars out of five
Okay, first of all, written magic that binds monsters into books and writes things into being is the coolest magic I’ve ever heard of.
And the rest of this book was pretty awesome as well.
The fae characters were part of a mysterious, elite upper class that magically ordered around their human obligates, and I love it when the fae are imperious and think they can’t be touched. The prince in this case was half fae, and it was the human part of him that caused him physical problems. So interesting!
The world was exquisite and detailed. The two courts mentioned were super interesting, but what I found the most unique was the emphasis around libraries and librarians, who were, of course, magical.
I loved the quirks of the troll side characters and the hijinks of the troll children.
Clara as a main character was quite endearing. She did something “wrong” in order to be essentially enslaved as an obligate, but since fae magic had suppressed that memory, it wasn’t known what that was or the extent of her power—but of course, the prince knew it. He’s really hard to figure out, as Clara catches glimpses or hatred when he looks at her, but he hides it and acts polite, though condescending, through most of the book. This is part of the mystery that drew me in, but also I wanted to shout at him to reveal his secrets through most of it.
My only complaint was there were a lot of characters introduced in the beginning that didn’t seem to play a large part in the plot, but as this is the first book in the series, I recognize they could come into play later.
You will definitely have to read on in the series after picking up this first one, so be warned!
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