There may be one or two things that I’m still not a hundred percent certain on, but that’s mostly because I was speed reading to see what’s going to happen next. She learns a lot and the readers learn with her and she remains oblivious to some things which again I enjoyed Breene’s reason for writing it so. The heroine for the most part is oblivious about the magical world and it’s rules. I don’t allow myself points for that, she’d practically spoon fed us by that point.

* grumbles* I was blindsided almost throughout if I ever did predict or guess which direction Breene was taking something it was one page before the reveal, max. How she hid so many little pieces of the puzzles from us in her pocket, probably snickering at us the whole time when we didn’t figure things out until perhaps just before she revealed it. It was after everything wrapped up and I’m sitting and thinking about it that I realized how well Breene has crafted this whole series. Thinking back I never really even thought about what was happening and where Breene was taking us, I was just moving along with the story, enraptured. There’s a big main plot and many many sub-plots that all weave in and out of one another and once resolved, end up support the main plot. The plot was the strongest, absolutely consistent part of this series. This book, like many before it, is a Beauty and Beast retelling and I’ve greatly opened my mind to B&B retellings after ACOTAR (I mean, of course) but did I expect to walk into this book with all its emotions, struggle, pain, humour and love? No.

Breene totes blew through those dislikes and killed it by making her book so damn interesting I don’t think I could ever stop talking about this series. So, just like everyone out there, I have a few no-no tropes. I speed read books one through three and waited and waited for the last book anxiously. I have truly dragged my feet on reviewing this series for FOUR whole books. This is the beginning of a trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. It is a full-length novel at 80k words and suitable for 18+. This is a dark and sexy Beauty and the Beast retelling, featuring a strong heroine, a dangerous anti-hero, and a humorous supporting cast. I can save the whole forgotten kingdom, locked away by the demon king’s power.īut it would mean taming the monster beneath his skin. Seeks to use me.Īpparently, I can save him. Forces me back to the castle as his prisoner. When he catches me trespassing in the forbidden wood, he doesn’t punish me with death, as he’s entitled. The only one keeping this kingdom alive is Nyfain, the golden prince to a stolen throne. Stuck here by a deal between the late king and a demon who seeks our destruction. The creature that stalks the forbidden wood. BreeneĪ spicy new twist on an old classic – a deliciously dark Beauty and the Beast reimagining. A Queen of Ruin (Deliciously Dark Fairytales, #4) by K.F.

A Throne of Ruin by K.F. Breene