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The Unseelie Prince by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

8 reviews

msalexnicole's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Excellent book! Highly recommend. 

Note this is a dark fantasy romance, so characters are not prince and princess charming. They take time to warm up to and are morally grey (mmc is). Check content warnings!

Expect:

- enemies to lovers
- captive/captor
- games
- great banter
- fast paced 
- great tension 
- slowww burn

Overall 4.5 ⭐️

Spice 1/5 🔥 her books seem to start slow but then ultra ramp up in the next books. 

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booksoflore's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

God I don’t know how this book was such an incredible train wreck. Like, the beginning? So good! Loved the scorned wife dynamic she had going. And then I really couldn’t understand the pace or the story of this book. Nothing made sense. The timeline was so horribly horribly off. There was a chunk in the middle that was just so bad that I stopped reading for like 4 months. The ending??? Pisses me off. But only because there’s a second book and honestly I would have liked it if that was the end honestly. Read those triggers because holy shit.
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sabinehunter's review against another edition

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

2.0

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cassie12_21's review

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

2.75

Slightly disturbed. Cliff hanger ending. I don’t know why I read this book, I didn’t like it, and yet I really want to see were this goes (not in a good way) 
Info on the rape: (he doesn't do it, its talked about)
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acreatureofbooksandtea's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

So I genuinely hated everything about this book. Aside from the FMC, who was just generally unremarkable and unmemorable.
The start of the book was basically the same as the end of the book. There was no character growth or plot progression. It genuinely felt like I had just completely wasted my time reading through the book.

The MMC had no redeemable or likable qualities. He spends much of the story sexually harassing and assaulting the FMC, or putting her life in mortal danger while he goes off to take a nap. His whole plan is to use her to further his own goals—which will require him killing her—but wants to make sure he can use her for sex fist.
When he's not sexually harassing the FMC, he's enjoying the hell out of himself by killing. Everyone. Indiscriminately. In the most brutal ways possible. One scene in particular, he tortures and skins alive a 10-year-old boy before turning him into a monster, and he's having such a good time while he does it.

The FMC goes through one life threatening situation after another in this story, is constantly injured and hurt, and is forced throughout the entire story to go through extreme mental and emotional torment. She's treated as nothing but a playing by the MMC and a pawn by almost everyone else in the story, and because of the MMC she is always being target by someone or something trying to kill her. Or in one case, rape her and then kill her.

I picked this book up because the cover was beautiful, and it was listed as a fantasy romance. This story is not a romance. Nothing romantic, loving, or even consensually sexual happens between the MCs in this book. They lust after each other, and that's it.
The focus of the story is the MMC's aspirations for power, and the FMC trying to find a way out of the world of the fae. Ultimately neither of their plans come to fruition, and at the end of the book
the FMC commits suicide by walking into a field of carnivorous flowers and allowing them to burrow their vines into her body and consume her from the inside out
, which is something I wasn't expecting and really wished I could have avoided reading about.
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starfalle94's review against another edition

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

3.75

Saw the book on BookTok and it did not disappoint! I found out about the series yesterday finished the first book today, and have started the second one already. It has it's normal tropes, morally gray mc with a sarcastic, sweetheart FMC. The morally gray Valroy is funny, like his and Abigail's banter was just amazing, honestly my favorite part of the whole book. You really just fall in love with the characters as the book goes on, you want Abigail to figure out the Maze and hopefully get her freedom back, but you also want her to figure out the Maze so that maybe she sees Valroy isn't really as bad as he is.

There's alot of different mythical creatures in the book and they're all different and crazy sounding (in a good way) there's like a person who's made of glass, but can also shape shift! 

The ending in this book made me rush to getting the second book and I'm so excited to see what happens to Valroy and Abigail.

Also Abigail isnt some 17 girl, she's around 25ish and that's sooo nice to see an "older" fmc. Young fmcs aren't bad but I don't want to read about a 17-20 year old in explicit scenes. (There's no sex in this book) but there was some detailed scenes.
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risquish's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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ceruleanshelves's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

If you love a toxic villain love interest à la the Darkling, look no further. Kathryn King's Valroy, Unseelie Prince, is the perfect wicked villain to sate your dark desires. Though there's less spice than I'd like in this book, there's plenty of mystery, intrigue, and constant teasing to drive you through to the very end (and I've read Julian Strande so I know King is going to deliver). Thankfully, the next installment comes out in December, which I will most definitely be reading.

Check TW/CWs cause these fae are NOT your friendly neighborhood Bat Boys from ACOTAR
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