The Cursed Crown
May Sage and Alexi Blake
Overall: 2.5/5
Plot and themes: 2/5
Characters: 2/5
Writing style: 3/5
Attention-grabbing: 3/5
The Cursed Crown is a standalone fantasy romance set in the world of the fae. The Unseelie King sees a need to unite the thrones and he knows he can't do it without the lost Seelie Queen. Not really lost, more like a forced exit as she feels her differences shine through in the conservative Seelie Court. Rissa doesn't want to be their queen and will do just about anything, including waking her distant cousin from his eternal sleep, to get away from it.
I liked this book a lot more in theory than I did while reading it, if that makes any sense at all. We've got the fae and we've got the fated mates and the magic powers and everything but it all felt so randomly thrown together. It almost felt like we were jumping around and seeing pieces of things before we should have seen it. Like her nightmare soul-sucking powers? They were demonstrated in the first twenty pages and then never seen again. It was a little disappointing. I also wasn't vibing with the way we were just thrown into the idea of them being mates. I don't ever want characters to end up together if they're introduced to us as cousins it just felt wrong.
There were some good elements to it and I definitely think that it had the potential to be super interesting I just also think it didn't spend enough time on the most interesting elements. I think there was a lot more potential for there to be a sequel if the epilogue hadn't have been one of those things that just very abruptly seals these characters off to future endeavors (which was another thing that kind of felt like cheating the more interesting elements of the story). I love reading fae novels and I wouldn't necessarily say this one isn't worth reading it was just a little disappointing to me.
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