Rating: 4.5????
Alice Winters is a favorite author of mine. Her ability to write stories and characters that inspire outrageous emotions, high and low humor along with subtle layering of poignancy and pain never fails to entertain and engage me.
So my expectations for her novel, Prince of Poison, in the Fortune Favors the Fae series was high. What a wonderful story! I still find myself cackling at scenes involving Dandelion and Madden or Callisto’s few attempts at romantic gestures. Absolutely gems of hilarity.
There’s just so much to this tale of fantasy romance and epic adventures. Winters has created some great characters, given all of them intriguing histories or origin stories, layered in various plots from those of mystery to romance to high suspense that fascinate and engage right to the ultimate battles and magical fights towards the end.
I love this. And really can’t go into the details about the characters and their relationships without divulging any spoilers. To give away major revelations would be a shame. But I’ll say that Dandelion is an absolute masterpiece and I need more.
I love the growth in the relationships between the characters and that it occurs naturally as trust and respect become real between them. And not only them.
Winters manages to use humor as a tool to slide in moments and subtle references to the true darknesses the characters have or have had to endure. It’s done beautifully and with great emotion. And it always makes us connect with the characters and their stories with genuine heart and feelings.
If I had a few issues here, it was with a disappearing character, a wisp called Titus, who I felt wasn’t well developed or terribly needed. He feels more like a distraction than anything else. At the end of the novel, Titus isn’t mentioned at all.
However, if you are like me and look into bonus content by authors, this story has an additional thirteen bonus pages that include Titus, and expand on what happened next between Madden and Dandelion. This is from Madden’s perspective, which makes sense that it wasn’t intended for the novel. But it does give Titus a bit more personality and lets us know where Titus was at the end of the book. See the author’s note for this content.
Prince of Poison (Fortune Favors the Fae Book 7) by Alice Winters is an absolute must read. I love it and the series. Highly recommend!
Love these covers , just fantastic , some of my favorites in years.
Fortune Favors the Fae - 15 books:
- [x] A Fae Coin Transported Me Into Another World and Now I'm the Gay Holy Maiden by AJ Sherwood #1❤️
- [x] The Wolf's (Un)Lucky Fae by Michele Notaro #2 ❤️
- [x] Bound to the Wild Fae by Tavia Lark #3 June 13❤️
- [x] The Sorcerer’s Thief by Lee Colgin #4 ❤️????
- [x] The Fae Menagerie by Edie Montreaux #5
- [x] Never Darling by Sam Burns #6
- [x] Prince of Poison by Alice Winters #7 ❤️
- [ ] Grave Misfortune by Nazri Noor #8 - July 18,2024
- [ ] Fae for Pay by Meaghan Maslow #9 - July 23,2024
- [ ] Kisses at the Crossroad by Morgan Lysand #10 - August 1,2024
- [ ] Smoke and Mirrors by Kai Butler #11 - August 8, 2024
- [ ] Siren in the Rain by Chloe Archer #12 - Aug 15,2024
- [ ] I Destroyed the Elf Prince’s Harem by Jocelynn Drake #13 - Aug 22,2024
- [ ] A Fae Called Wylder by Michelle Frost #14 - Aug 29,2024
- [ ] Lucky or Knot by Eliot Grayson #15 - September 5,2024
Prince of Poison
4.6
| 602 ratingsPrice: 17.46
Last update: 09-02-2024