The Cursed Crown by May Sage

 

One of my friends went to a book con and gave me a bag of all the books she'd bought/gotten that she didn't want anymore. THE CURSED CROWN was one of these, and to be honest, I probably wouldn't have read it if I hadn't gotten it for free, because despite that beautiful cover, the blurb and the art just scream "I LOVE SJM."

***WARNING: SPOILERS***

And in some ways, THE CURSED CROWN does kind of feel like it was inspired by ACOTAR. The hero's name is Rydeker and he's a black-haired, purple-eyed fae who is in a love-hate-lust relationship with the woman who he would have as his unwilling bride: Serissa, a half-fae, half-nightmare creature with wings who commands plants and lives in the woods all by herself because she hates everyone.*

*Same

This book is pure brain candy. I'm not entirely sure it makes sense because the climax was blink-and-you'll-miss-it fast and then it literally goes from them having sex for the first time to cradling their newborn in an epilogue. This ends up making the book feel pretty front-heavy because there's SO much build-up with Rissa talking about how she wants to stab Rye in the face, and then there's something sinister happening with the courts and attempted poisonings and more wandering and oh, dear god help me, why did this take me so long to read when it was so fucking SHORT?

Theoretically, I didn't like this book. But it was exactly what sad depressed little me needed. I was feeling sad and wanted to read some decently written faerie trash. I got what I wanted. Also, this author wrote two other series about vampires and sex demons that sound far up my alley and I'm not sure I would have found this author if not through this book so maybe that warrants a half-star round-up?

2.5 out of 5 stars