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A review by kreela
Kiss of the Selkie by Tessonja Odette
5.0
“Here, I’m just a grain of sand on the seashore. Invisible. Inconsequential. Just a girl dressed as a boy, lifting trinkets from pockets as smoothly as the girls in the Orchid Garden lift their skirts.”
Swoon. I swoon over lovely writing just as much as the girls in this competition swoon over the hot billionaire…or in this case, immigrant in need of a wife to gain citizenship. This hot target of affection is not your average prince; he is sworn to a church and the son of a murderer of the fae.
Princess Maisie is the royal in this story, but she is also the runaway Robin Hood with a decidedly anti-biblical moral character (a manipulator). After living in a cosmopolitan city for a year, she has survived by stealing, some of which is donated to the theater as her rent. However, when her mother, the queen of assassins, catches up to Maisie, she is forced into a bridal competition to kill the man…and kiss him. It is love and war. “I like men with a little extra blubber.” (Say what? Oh, wait, my sister said that once.)
The city of Sin and Salvation has the BEST churches. They auction men! I don’t know how they attract male worshipers, but the women flock to the churches. Plus, they sponsor beauty pageants. I love this city district! The mix of tourists, dens of iniquity, churches, bakeries, and nightly theaters make me want to visit, especially after forgoing a vacation for two years.
But there are other interesting characters. Her BFF is a crab (sorry: fungus fae), her fairy godmother is an aerial acrobat. My favorite is probably the impersonator. She acts so evil and mocking, yet I really want a story about her. She seems so tortured.
And father Viktor: the staid older man who tries to be modern even if modern has passed him by: “Next, let’s hear from Briony Rose and pray to the Almighty her speech will be far less scathing.”
* Selkie Robin Hood
* Unwitting patrons of the arts
Swoon. I swoon over lovely writing just as much as the girls in this competition swoon over the hot billionaire…or in this case, immigrant in need of a wife to gain citizenship. This hot target of affection is not your average prince; he is sworn to a church and the son of a murderer of the fae.
Princess Maisie is the royal in this story, but she is also the runaway Robin Hood with a decidedly anti-biblical moral character (a manipulator). After living in a cosmopolitan city for a year, she has survived by stealing, some of which is donated to the theater as her rent. However, when her mother, the queen of assassins, catches up to Maisie, she is forced into a bridal competition to kill the man…and kiss him. It is love and war. “I like men with a little extra blubber.” (Say what? Oh, wait, my sister said that once.)
The city of Sin and Salvation has the BEST churches. They auction men! I don’t know how they attract male worshipers, but the women flock to the churches. Plus, they sponsor beauty pageants. I love this city district! The mix of tourists, dens of iniquity, churches, bakeries, and nightly theaters make me want to visit, especially after forgoing a vacation for two years.
But there are other interesting characters. Her BFF is a crab (sorry: fungus fae), her fairy godmother is an aerial acrobat. My favorite is probably the impersonator. She acts so evil and mocking, yet I really want a story about her. She seems so tortured.
And father Viktor: the staid older man who tries to be modern even if modern has passed him by: “Next, let’s hear from Briony Rose and pray to the Almighty her speech will be far less scathing.”
* Selkie Robin Hood
* Unwitting patrons of the arts