Mmk!” Honestly, I expected a YA romance, with all the angst and all the tension. So when I requested this book on NetGalley, I was looking at the cover and story description and thinking: “Oh! Kind of like Uprooted but with more romancey bits. Cat fights him at every turn, but Griffin’s fairness, loyalty, and smoldering advances make him increasingly hard to resist and leave her wondering if life really does have to be short, and lived alone. He wants her as a powerful weapon for his newly conquered realm-until he realizes he wants her for much more than her magic. Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods-and her homicidal mother-have saddled her with. “Cat” Catalia Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. Rated: 3.5 / 5 cookies e-ARC provided by NetGalley (thank you!) Would I read the next book though? Hell yes I would. On the other hand, I couldn’t personally condone the relationship for most of the book, and even when things started getting full-blown bad romancey in the classic Alpha-male and feisty female trope, I’m still holding onto my reservations. On the one hand, I found it a fast read, occasionally super riveting, and totally steamy (like whoah there, this is NOT YA WHAT WAS I THINKING). I find myself terribly conflicted with this book.
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