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A review by moirwyn
Heart's Blood by Jeffe Kennedy
4.0
This review originally appeared on my blog, Books Without Any Pictures:
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2016/06/02/its-that-time-again-mini-reviews/
I won a copy of this book during Armchair BEA, which is fitting, considering that’s how I first discovered Jeffe Kennedy’s writing several years ago. Heart’s Blood hits everything I want in a cozy comfort read–romance, magic, revenge/poetic justice, and a happy ending.
Heart’s Blood is a retelling of the Goose Girl. The novella starts out as Prince Cavan worries about his upcoming political marriage, but determines that he will do his duty to his country and make the best of it. Then his bride Princess Nathilde shows up, and she’s a monster from hell. She’s basically all the evil stepmother witch bitch stereotypes rolled into one. But she has a secret–she isn’t really Princess Nathilde. She beat and raped and seriously fucked up the real princess, who is now posing as her servant and has taken the name Nix.
Prince Cavan is perplexed about what to do with Nix, since Princess Nathilde doesn’t want her as a maid. Nix finds a place tending the geese, and being surrounded by nature gives her a chance to start to heal. And I’ll stop there since I don’t want to get all spoilery, but there’s some good old-fashioned comeuppance for the fake Nathilde, and everything ends as it should. I enjoyed this one a lot, but it does get a bit dark, so if you’re bothered by graphic sexual violence, you may want to steer clear.
http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/2016/06/02/its-that-time-again-mini-reviews/
I won a copy of this book during Armchair BEA, which is fitting, considering that’s how I first discovered Jeffe Kennedy’s writing several years ago. Heart’s Blood hits everything I want in a cozy comfort read–romance, magic, revenge/poetic justice, and a happy ending.
Heart’s Blood is a retelling of the Goose Girl. The novella starts out as Prince Cavan worries about his upcoming political marriage, but determines that he will do his duty to his country and make the best of it. Then his bride Princess Nathilde shows up, and she’s a monster from hell. She’s basically all the evil stepmother witch bitch stereotypes rolled into one. But she has a secret–she isn’t really Princess Nathilde. She beat and raped and seriously fucked up the real princess, who is now posing as her servant and has taken the name Nix.
Prince Cavan is perplexed about what to do with Nix, since Princess Nathilde doesn’t want her as a maid. Nix finds a place tending the geese, and being surrounded by nature gives her a chance to start to heal. And I’ll stop there since I don’t want to get all spoilery, but there’s some good old-fashioned comeuppance for the fake Nathilde, and everything ends as it should. I enjoyed this one a lot, but it does get a bit dark, so if you’re bothered by graphic sexual violence, you may want to steer clear.