I finished reading the ARC of this one last evening. I stayed up too late to finish it, but it was so worth it. This one blew me away. I was hooked by this story from the beginning. Elorie is a human living on a freezing cold island devoid of magic. She tends to the dead Fae prisoners and human dead from her village. One day during a rebel attack in the village she flees and runs into the Fae prison thinking that the Fae rebels won't chase her there, but they follow anyway. She stumbles her way through the dark corridors of the prison and comes upon a mysterious Fae who then saves her from the rebel attack suffering a fatal wound himself. Elorie can't just let him die. She somehow resurrects him with powerful magic. Magic that not only she shouldn't possess but magic that should not work where she is. News of her impossible feat gets back to the king and she is summoned to him. She enters into a bargain with him to save her realm that has been slowly dying for centuries. At the declaration ceremony none other than the prisoner she saved walks in. Turns out he's the king of the rival realm and he enters into the bargain as well. Elorie's magic can only save one realm so she'll have to make a choice between her home or this rival kingdom whos king knows more about her than he should. She has to learn how to harness the magic she never knew she had and she learns everything about who she thought she is was a lie. My exact cup of tea, right. This was great. It's a Helen of Troy retelling and it had me hooked right to the end of the book. I really wasn't sure who she would pick or how it would play out. There are some great twists and some even better found family in this one. It ended on a cliffhanger and I need the next book now. I've also found out the audio narrator for the MMC is Anthony Palmini so now I need to get ahold of this audio book too!
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