A Beautifully Crafted Lie

5⭐️1🌶

I finished my ARC of A Beautifully Crafted Lie by Evelyn Ash early this morning. It was really good. It was atmospheric and mysterious. It follows more traditional Irish folklore concerning seely and unseely fae. The FMC Bryndis is a witch. But being a witch will get you reaped by the fae. She also has a voice in her head. It takes the entire book to reveal what that voice really is. The MMC, Odhran, is a bastard fae prince who is very complicated; very dark, brooding shaddow daddy. Humans and fae shouldn't be together, fae feed off humans, so there is a forbidden element to their attraction. This is a slow burn that goes off the rails in the last few chapters. I'm still not sure I've fully grasped everything that happened at the end. The world building was phenomenal. There was a found family element and the tension is the slow burn was superb. I loved the depth of the story and without spoiling too much; trust is a tenuous thing and Bryndis manages to have literally everyone betray her at some point. I'm really looking forward to the next book. I need to know how this mess is going to get resolved. The ending was a crazy cliffhanger that left me reeling. It comes out August 26th.

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