The Bridge Kingdom
Daniel L. Jensen
Overall: 3/5
Plot and themes: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Writing style: 3/5
Attention-grabbing: 4/5
The Bridge Kingdom is the first in an enemies-to-lovers series covering a forced marriage scenario between a king and a princess. Lara has prepared her entire life for the potential eventuality of being the bride of a king. Along with a whole huge group of her other sisters who have consistently been her allies and enemies. After staging a masterful plan to guarantee this marriage, she knows that without bringing the kingdom to its knees she will never have her freedom. But Aren is different from anyone she's ever met, and she can't help but start to consider the possibility that her father may have been preparing them for a scenario that doesn't quite exist.
This book isn't bad by any measure, it's just incredibly basic. It relies completely on what people want to see from a book of this vein. Probably pulled up a list of enemies to lovers tropes and just figured out how to integrate them in the most cohesive manner. While that can work for some books, I would have liked to see some actually growth and development in the plot of the novel. Things were picked up and dropped left and right, and the main characters were very obviously invested in one another from the start to finish. It was obvious and it wasn't even all that cinematic.
I didn't hate it, I might read the second one but I feel as though I know exactly how it would end. If you want an enemies to lovers with a betrayal I think that Winner's Curse is much better and this is more a cheap amalgamation of everything that came before it. That might just be my disappointment cause it was hyped up for years and when I finally got it it was weak, but it really could've done so much more.
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