Of Beast And Burden (Hollow and Hill, #1)
Kelsey Kicklighter
A fae girl with a human heart. A Seelie Queen with a penchant for stealing mortals. And an Unseelie King who will have to give up his throne. On the coast of Georgia rests a small southern town where faeries still take changelings. Faye lost her mother to the Folk, but has she spent her whole life longing for a glimpse—however brief—behind the veil. When Faye finds her way in, she also finds the truth of why the dark and alluring world of the Folk has always called to her: She's half-faerie, and heiress to the Dark Court's throne. When the rival court steals her best friend, she'll have to claim her crown to get her back. But that means learning how to use her glamour so she can face three deadly trials—and not falling for the dark and brooding king she's meant to be replacing, or the nymph-turned-knight teaching her to fight.
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Apologies for the late review due to unexpected circumstances. Anyways I'm back on track.
Nothing really interesting happened until the last 30% of the book. I really enjoyed the twist in the trials and the ending. Though Kellan grew on me and became my favorite character. I might even consider reading the sequel.
The setting and the style of speach was too modern for my taste, I never want to see the word scrunchie in a fantasy book ever again. For the most part the author stuck to using fae/folk but the inconsistencies bothered me. The terms fae, faerie, elves are thrown around as if they are supposed to be the same thing.
For half of the book I thought that Kellan, the seelie prince, was supposed to be a love interest but then I checked the synopsis and realized it's actually the unseelie king, Gage (and Isla) . Then 2 pages later the book was trying to gaslight me into thinking they previously had chemistry? When they just started being touchy out of the blue.
Excessive use of stupid endearments. They were repetitive and annoying.
Tip for authors:
Love triangle ✘
Polyamory ✔
Also if possible do not include incest.
Arc provided by publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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