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❤️Enemies to Lovers
❤️Forbidden Romance
❤️Star Crossed Lovers
❤️Plotting, Intrigue, Twists & Turns
❤️High Stakes
❤️Villains Galore
❤️Secret Identities
❤️Dual POV

Amount of spice:🔥🔥
Explicitness: 🌶️🌶️.5

Danielle really does love making her characters absolutely go through it, these two did not get a second of peace I swear but I also totally ate it up. I really enjoyed this one and loved both Zarrah and Keris but I didn’t connect with them in the same way I did with Lara and Aren and I think this was just because it felt like a lot of the story really dragged. They spent such a huge portion of the book in Vencia inside the palace that in the end I did lose just the tiniest bit of interest.

In saying this, I’m really invested in this series now and I want to see what happens to all of these characters I’ve come to love so much so I’ll be diving into the next one. I also thought Keris was such an interesting MMC because we’re so used to seeing the tough, battle worn and classically muscled sexy mmc in romantasy and Keris really isn’t that. He’s intellectual and soft (not in a bad way). He finds violence really hard to deal with and relies heavily on his wit and smarts and I love that.

I would recommend it if you loved The Bridge Kingdom and wanted to learn more about Keris and Zarrah and you adore a forbidden romance.

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adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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koistyfishy's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Move over Aren and Lara… there is a new IT couple in the works of
Danielle L. Jensen!!!

(Spoilers if you havent read The Traitor Queen)

It takes a real brilliant and amazing author to write a plot that most readers already know a fair few of the plot points (since this book runs parallel to the events of the end of Book 1 most of Book 2) and STILL finds a way to tell a brand new and unique story that makes you sit at the edge of your seat in anticipation, excitement and dread for what these characters go through.

This was an intricate web of multiple plans and plot points that had seeds sewn into the story from the first line of Book 1… and amazingly these lines just come together in a chefs kiss of beauty…

Amazing book!!! Amazing Banter!!!
This is one of those books that stick with you for a while after reading it!!!

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dkgreads's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Though the heat level went up several notches from its predecessors (not complaining), I wasn’t nearly as invested in this book as I was the previous two. I think it’s because A) The Traitor Queen ended in such a way that I feel like there’s still so much of Lara and Aren’s story left to tell and I wasn’t ready to move on to new characters, and B) the majority of the events of this book take place simultaneously with that of the end of The Bridge Kingdom and the entirety of The Traitor Queen, so I felt like I already knew the outcome of most of the plot and just didn’t become invested in Keris and Zarrah’s story. In fact, I wasn’t really all that interested until the last three chapters of the book, when NEW plot was finally added. Now I’m definitely looking forward to the second half of Keri’s and Zarrah’s duet, even if it looks like the plot smacks heavily of similarity to The Traitor Queen.

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aniwisniewski's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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forgottencupoftea's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I think I struggled with this one? I didn't find it as good as the first two books? It might be because the main characters aren't Lara and Aren any longer, or the fact that we "go back in time" as the action starts with events happening at the very end of book #1.
It took around 170 pages to get to the good stuff. It shouldn't take this long for a book to get interesting! It's a real shame, as I was very intrigued by Keris and was interested in learning more about him! (I, unfortunately, can't say the same about Zarrah...)

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