Joy Lewis

This fae crown demands blood. Anova has been burnt before. As a thief, it's best that no one knows your real name. Better to be alive and a cheater than an honest corpse. But when her debts catch up to her, a dangerous fae bargain is the only way to repay them before she loses her freedom. Despite her hatred of his folk, she agrees to become the assassin of the young and mysterious fae lord, Leander. The catch? She must pose as his human lover.
Because every moment between them must be a farce to save their lives, Anova can't trust her heart. When they discover a bloody fae curse, her hand is forced. Allow Leander to sacrifice himself to end a reign of fae tyranny, or die in his place. Will it be her life? Or her heart?

A Thorn Among Fae

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His stomach twisted. A light was beginning to appear at the top of her head.

Anova sucked in a sharp breath, and her entire body shuddered.

She enjoyed the sound of air escaping his throat.

The toxins were deep within her system, Anova knew. They skewed her perception and slowed time. It was kind, then, that she could experience choking the High King for longer than it perhaps actually happened.

Wearing Anova's clothes, Letharia started towards the edge of her room, her hand on the tent's canvas. She turned her head back towards her.

"This will be the last you see of me, Anova. I wish you luck. May whatever awaits you on the other side of this life be kinder than this."

"You're going to survive, Anova. No matter what. Promise me that."

She tsked at his words. He should know her better by now. "I would sooner kill all of Fae myself than die here."

His eyes glimmered at that, and he smirked.

"No one else is allowed to kill you," she said in response.

"Then you should be glad I saved you the honor."

It was then that she realized why they all wore black. It was more than stealth.

They were making a mockery of her people. It was as if the humans were already dead, and this was their funeral.

They would come, armed high on their horses and wearing clothes blacker than the night.

Even though she was a born liar, she hated to lie to Juras. But she didn't need him doing something as stupid as she was doing. She needed him to live.

The lie came out smoother than it should have.

He leaned closer to her ear, his breath tickling her. "When they ask, I want you to tell them that I'm a monster." As he said it, his thumb pressed into the cut along her collarbone that she'd forgotten.

*I want you to tell them you're doomed to me."

Letharia watched the crowd of fae carefully as she answered. “Your mate is with the other one. The dark one."

The phrase her mate made her heart jump. That's what these people think we are, she remembered. Those are the roles we're playing.

The monsters in this room were about to descend upon her home. Looking at them, she knew they would kill the people of Irbess. They would rip them apart, limb from limb, if only for the delight of it.

Anova's head was dizzy, She was about to lose everything she'd ever had.

It was Leander's mother. The gown he'd given her was the same one she was wearing for the portrait.

" he said, "you'd already be doing it, on hands and knees."

But why should it bother her how delicious she smelled to a monster?

Because there is power in desire, she considered. It was one of her more basic tenets.

She would do well to remember it herself.

A hollow, empty laugh came from him. "Didn't anyone ever tell you not to make a deal with a fae?"

She would kill every last one of them for what they'd done to her. And she would laugh while she did it.

She never let a man touch her without touching him back just as hard.

Straight away at the beginning this book made me believe it was heavily inspired by ACOTAR and TCP based on the storyline and characters. So originally, not for long, i thought that i was going to be bored, basically rereading the same plots as those. No, it was similar in a good way, and honestly for a while i haven’t been into reading. I’ve struggled so much lately to pick up a book and continue it, but this wasn’t the case. I genuinely found this book really interesting even with similar plot/ideas. I loved the characters, i loved the romance and the tension and i love the world building. There were a few things to do with fae that i haven’t seen written in any other books and i like that. I don’t know if anyone will understand me when i say this, but you know when you’re attached to a character and something terrible happens or something upsetting? and you start to feel like a heavy burning uncomfortable sensation in your chest? this book gave me that. Now it might sound bad, but i love it when books torture me and my feelings so much that even my body experiences it. However, i have one suggestion as the ending was a bit disappointing, i personally would’ve loved if it ended during 

 Anova’s ‘death’ / when she receives the blood crown 

 as during that scene there was a lot of build up and tension, and it would’ve pained me to leave it there so i would’ve been even more drawn into picking up the next book.

Straight away at the beginning this book made me believe it was heavily inspired by ACOTAR and TCP based on the storyline and characters. So originally, not for long, i thought that i was going to be bored, basically rereading the same plots as those. No, it was similar in a good way, and honestly for a while i haven’t been into reading. I’ve struggled so much lately to pick up a book and continue it, but this wasn’t the case. I genuinely found this book really interesting even with similar plot/ideas. I loved the characters, i loved the romance and the tension and i love the world building. There were a few things to do with fae that i haven’t seen written in any other books and i like that. I don’t know if anyone will understand me when i say this, but you know when you’re attached to a character and something terrible happens or something upsetting? and you start to feel like a heavy burning uncomfortable sensation in your chest? this book gave me that. Now it might sound bad, but i love it when books torture me and my feelings so much that even my body experiences it. However, i have one suggestion as the ending was a bit disappointing, i personally would’ve loved if it ended during spoilers Anova’s ‘death’ / when she receives the blood crown no spoilers as during that scene there was a lot of build up and tension, and it would’ve pained me to leave it there so i would’ve been even more drawn into picking up the next book.

A Thorn Among Fae

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