The Dagger and the Forbidden Heir
The Forbidden Heir Trilogy, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Amanda Dolan
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Corvin King
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Emilia Jae
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Can they survive the truth of their war? Can their hearts?
A century ago, an exchange was proposed: a life saved for a war of revenge.
Captain Lia Solus of the fae army, and the secret bastard daughter of the king, is reminded of those consequences daily. Unable to claim her heritage or her throne, she's powerless to stop the innocent bloodshed that her birth ushered in.
On the other side of the lines, Commander Jace Cadoria gladly fights the war of his ancestors to slaughter the fae who have terrorized the humans of their realm for generations. With a cunning plan to trap them, the end could finally be in sight. Except it quickly spirals out of control, leaving Lia and Jace, enemies of opposite sides, stranded together in a dangerous terrain.
Engaged in an intimate battle of their own, both warring to take control, they'll need their wits now more than ever to survive. Because this fight could cost their lives—and their hearts.
Throne of Glass meets House of the Dragon in The Forbidden Heir Trilogy, a fun and chaotic new take on fantasy, featuring enemies-to-lovers, modernized banter, dragons, heartache, adventure, and dark sorcery that grows throughout the series. This is told from multiple first-person POVs, including the villains, and is a character-driven romantic fantasy. The story will be enjoyed by lovers of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Carissa Broadbent. For mature listeners.
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Emilia's writing style is good, and I did enjoy the earlier chapters and character development, but when it came to combat and strategy the story fell apart.
WARNING This review may or may not contain spoilers for the first 16 chapters
So the King has an affair, and feels so guilty about it that he let's his Queen wage a 130 year war against the humans, killing thousands of his people, apparently not feeling any guilt about his dead people.
The kingdoms top military people are two captains, one of the army and one navy, who are dating. The humans don't seem to have a navy of their own, and the navy doesn't seem to carry the army forces anywhere so not sure of the point of them.
The two captains break up after an incident at a brothel, and are then sent on a mission together.
After no planning or orders, the army captain is surprised by the fact that when she boards the ship that none of her army troops are on board. That's kind of what happens if you don't actual order people to turn up.
And instead of talking about the upcoming mission, the two captains send five days fighting about who is going to sleep in the captains quarters on the boat, for five. So with no scouting, any idea of numbers, troop positions or complement the two captains talk strategy about an hour before making land fall.
So the humans, after having their arses handed to them for 130 years, have built up their population, I think they mentioned in the millions, and have setup an ambush for the fae, see above. They know the two captains are coming by boat, with 30 troops.
Knowing they fae are physically far superior they set their ambush on a beach with 75 fighters.
Umm sure, this is going to work, because in the words of their leader "this has to work"
It doesn't, and it's here that I quit too.
I know next to nothing about military and strategy, but read enough books by people who do it well to know that this is not it.
I think I am more disappointed in the FMC, who has said to be trained in combat for at minimum a century. Personally I have participated and taught defence against sword and dagger and can't understand the lack of knowledge, skill and situational awareness of the FMC. Her level of self defence is basically punch a guy in the nuts, no footwork, no locks, breaks or disarms anything.
Please if you are going to write a kick arsed female, can she at least kick some arse?
This book made me sad
Not for me, DNF
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