‧͙⁺˚*･༓ Fairies Of Death ♡
{↪MINOR SPOILER NO ENDING SPOILERS}
☾TWs; SPICEEE, death, murder, kidnapping, torture☽
↪Title: Fairies Of Death
↪Pub Date: October 17th
↪Story Synopsis: Isay is the only light fae in the court of death fae besides her mother who married their king. As the whole court drools for her life force it is not the safest place to be. Everyone is her enemy as far as she knows. Even as her attraction to one of her guards grows she will not fall for it. He is ruthless and cruel. That man killed another fae in front of her! Karmuth is one of the death fae guards assigned to protect Isay. Only he really wants to touch her, knowing real well one touch would lead to Isay’s immediate death. Battling with emotions, logic and something else, a hunger deep within that has nothing to do with craving Isay’s life force and everything to do with his blinding desire for her, Karmuth finally learns why he is different from the rest of his court.
↪Length: 393 pages
↪My Rating: 4.00 ★★★★☆
Tropes:
♡ Instalove
♡ Fated Mates
♡ He falls first
♡ Enemies to lovers
Thank you to the author for an ARC of this book, a feature from the full Realm of Midnight anthology. This anthology contains many different paranormal romance books, but I have only read 'Fairies of Death.' This review is based on the uncorrected proof. My review voluntarily given and contains my honest thoughts and opinions.
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I still remember seeing ‘Fairies of Death’ as an ARC title and immediately went DEATH FAIRIES - FAIRIES WHO LIKE DEATH?!!! And snatched it up with my little raccoon hands.
And I wasn’t disappointed! It was a real treat with a unique take on fae, their powers, and their love lives. The world itself has a lot of interesting elements to it, including its own unique creatures that I’d love a bestiary on! The author does a great job of detailing the world's dynamics, and the realms relationships with one another. The power/magic system of ecos is simple and straightforward, and never confused me despite the fact it is an original concept. I fell absolutely in love with it, and how it ended up really framing the main character’s relationship with one another. As well as the ecos power simultaneously representing each character’s individual characteristics.
The story is enjoyable, and the writing is compelling. I got to 80% so fast! I quite literally wanted to devour the world and every interesting thing in it. It also helped that ecos itself was a concept I was incredibly intrigued with, and felt that I HAD to know how it worked. I also adored the back and forth between Isay and Karmuth, it was witty and fun - and Isay can 100% hold her own against ANYONE. With her sharp tongue, or remarkable powers. It made it incredibly fun and adventurous, and you always feel when reading like something new and exciting is just around the bend.
However, I did have some gripe. The fantasy characters SUDDENLY having cars and motorcycles turned me off, and I ended up kinda just removing that part from my brain and thought it added nothing to the story. In this aspect, it just was not explained well enough to give the sudden ‘there’s a portal to the human world’ a pass. It felt out of the blue, even if humans had been mentioned beforehand. Also, as someone who has lived in LA for most of my life - why would you come HERE. POOR ISAY COULD’VE GOTTEN MUGGED.
Because it was so instalovey, it threw off the pacing and kept me from getting too invested. You already knew early on the characters were WAY too attracted to each other, so there wasn’t much left to play out between the two - you always knew how it was going to end. Especially with the sheer lengths Karmuth would go for her - which is something other readers may really enjoy.
On the topic of the main characters, let's get into them. Isay (FMC) was hard for me to like. She is caring and naive, and as selfless as she is - she often comes off as thoughtless and spoiled. She often acts before she thinks, and whenever her actions affect anyone else negatively - she never deals with any consequences. A maid she gets killed through NOT LISTENING PER USUAL, she makes no effort to defend, and only thinks about her like twice afterwards. Never learning her lesson from the experience of quite literally getting someone executed through her own hubris. She then does it AGAIN, for the rest of the book - which would not have bothered me like it did, if character development had been shown. Isay is also incredibly powerful and has the coolest ecos abilities, which I would’ve loved to see Isay discover more on her own and let the romance go on the backburner for a little bit as she discovered herself. However, she is a very young fae - so some of this would have made sense in terms of the story
Karmuth (MMC) was smooth asf, and very well written - he was a lot more likable than Isay and very thoughtful. He always had a sense of duty, and was well calculated in ALL of his decisions - perfectly balancing out Isay’s naivety. However, he made way too many excuses and cleaned up too many of her messes. Which is something I feel like a well practiced, logical, elite soldier would struggle to justify.
I feel like making this into a series would be the right thing to do, just so more exposition can be provided to the ending and some elements that went unexplained. Overall, I feel like this would have benefitted from having only Isay’s POV and a lot of character development on Isay’s end - as she really felt like the weakest link. However, this did not mean I disliked the story at all. I BINGED this thing, and had over 100 notes of things I enjoyed, found cute, or found spicy. I think it really delivered and most of my gripe just came from me not liking some of the tropes other readers would greatly enjoy.
M O O D B O A R D
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