Fate of a Royal ( Lords of Rathe #1) by Meagan Brandy and Amo Jones
Pages: 299
Publish date: 7 July 2023
Publisher: –
ASIN: B0CBCKSCN4
Purchase: Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU
“You will go to Rathe University, live among the giftless and those of light magic. You, Knight Deveraux, will learn to coexist.”
I’ve never heard more wasted words in my life. Then again, the gifted counsel never did have much to say that wasn’t. The only members amongst them who speak a thing worth listening to are my parents, the King and Queen of the Stygian’s, the people of Dark Magic.
Unfortunately for me and my brothers, they’ve chosen to play nice instead of sinking their talons into anyone who dares demand a thing from their heirs. In this instance at least.
Every gifted is forced to leave our realm behind after graduation to spend the next four years in a world that isn’t ours while pretending it’s enough for those with something deeper clawing beneath their skin.
It isn’t. Not by a long shot, and while it’s as boring as I thought it would be, we find ways to entertain ourselves.
A little Fae Dust, the power of persuasion, and it’s a party worthy of a royal … or four.
That was fun the first year, but it’s my second now, and the minute I got back to campus, I knew it would be worse than before. I felt it, that pull buried beneath my skin, the whisper of a warning deep in my mind I could hear but couldn’t reach.
It starts with a human party and ends with a fucking nightmare.
A five-foot, white-haired one.
With eyes like ice and a body begging to be bitten, she’s a problem.
A giftless one.
That’s right, she’s human.
Worthless.
And if the shadow circling my soul is telling me what I think it is … she belongs to it.
My new obsession … is my fated mate.
But there is no way the fates would give me, a Lord of Rathe, a heir to the throne of dark magic, a giftless girl.
I’ll prove they got it wrong.
That she’s not mine.
If I’m lucky, I’ll destroy her in the process.
Fate of Royal:
Thank you to Meagan Brandy and Amo Jones for a review copy of Fates of a Royal. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
Before reading this book, please check the trigger and content warnings. This is an enemies-to-lovers paranormal fantasy with high spice levels, bully elements, fated mates and more.
Okay, I wanted to love this book so much. It has so much I want from a fantasy and Paranormal book. And while I didn’t love it, I still very much enjoyed it. It’s a solid 4-star for me.
If Knight wasn’t forced to come into the non-gifted world, he would have probably not crossed paths with London. And now all London and Knight seem to be doing is crossing paths. And each time they do, well let’s just say it keeps on getting hotter and hotter. What started with looks turned into something more. But life isn’t easy, and things aren’t what they seem.
As London’s life starts to take a turn and things she would have never believed before start to become a reality, Knight is struggling with the belief that something like London, a giftless is his mate. As the son of the King and Queen of Stygian, people of Dark Magic. She isn’t worthy of him. But things start to heat up fast and the more time London and Knight start to spend together the more their bond starts to form.
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I liked London as a female protagonist in Fate of a Royal. She just has a lot of fun and didn’t really give a shit of what people thought of her and that makes it entertaining. I think her character development was well done. And with the ending of Fates of a Royal, I am very intrigued to see what happens with London and how her arc goes.
Knight is a douchebag and I love him. He is an arsehole but gosh he is hot. There isn’t much to like about him. But he is an interesting character though and that is what made me want to know more and more about him. We learn a little about him and his world, but we have barely skimmed the surface.
I would not call what these two have right now a romance. Is it intense? Yes! Is it sexy? Yes. Is it hot? Hell yes. Am I excited to see what happens between these two after the ending? Umm, yes, I need to know now!
It’s a slow start in Fate of a Royal, but I didn’t find that to be a bad thing. I thought that it was well done. It slows bought us into a world, which we don’t know too much about. And as the book goes on, we find out a little bit more here and there. I do feel at times I didn’t understand the world fully and hope we get to learn more about it in the next book.
I also don’t think a whole lot happened in this book. It felt like it was a lot of build-up for what is to come. And for me, that isn’t a bad thing either. I enjoyed character-driven and world-building quite a lot. I do feel at times there needed to be a little more action and not the sexy kind. But something a little more to drive the book.
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I was very intrigued by this writing duo. It’s not two people that I could even imagine writing together. I just recently read Meagan Brandy’s books, but I haven’t read anything from Amo yet. But I am excited to try. I don’t know how these two wrote Fate of a Royal, but there wasn’t anything distinctive that I could tell when they switched up who may be writing. I like that. There were times when I did feel the writing was a little clunky, but as the book went on, I felt more settled in the book and didn’t notice it as much.
Overall, I liked Fate of a Royal. A lot. I am intrigued, scared, and excited to see what the next book brings. It’s got high heat with a little bully and hate-to-love vibes. It’s a world with monsters and darkness and a lot of secrets hidden away. Meagan Brandy and Amo Jones have created a world that has caught my eye and I am excited to see where it goes. It’s not perfect, it has a few things that I didn’t like, but with how it ended, oh boy do I want to read it right now.
If you like a paranormal romance with hate to love, fated mates and a lot of spice. Fate of a Royal may be the one for you.
Have you read Fate of a Royal by Meagan Brandy and Amo Jones yet? What did you think of it? Are you planning on reading it? Nevertheless, are you loving all the paranormal and fantasy coming out at the moment? Because I know am! What are you reading at the moment? So, let’s chat!
