Lara and her sisters were trained to be spies so that the one who eventually cemented the marriage alliance could figure out Ithicana’s secrets to facilitate an eventual invasion. Maridrina is a country in a marriage alliance with the island nation of Ithicana. The heroine, Lara, is one of twelve half-sisters who are daughters of the king of Maridrina. This book comes out swinging and I was hooked right away. I would also say that the romance is the main subplot as opposed to the main plot moderate your expectations accordingly.
This is very much the first book in a trilogy that follows the same characters throughout. It’s definitely a fantasy novel with romantic elements as opposed to an actual fantasy romance, so don’t go in looking for a resolution of the romantic plot (or a resolution of the plot, period). The marketing copy for this novel calls it a “fantasy romance,” but I don’t think that’s accurate.
(I’m not sure why, because I do like podcasts, but I don’t like audiobooks very much.) Since romance fantasy is not thick on the ground, I will Hoover up anything that even seems subgenre-adjacent. I was squee-level excited when her Audible original fantasy novel for adults, The Bridge Kingdom, was released on Kindle earlier this year. Jensen since her debut novel, Stolen Songbird, which is about a beautiful songstress who is stolen away to live under a mountain with trolls and gets married to a very dreamy troll prince. The fact that I enjoyed the book quite a lot until that point made my disappointment even more intense. The Bridge Kingdom started out incredibly strong, but things that happened in the last 15% or so of the book soured the reading experience for me. I keep reading books that are very hard for me to grade, because I have conflicting reactions to them. Theme: Arranged Marriage, Enemies to Lovers, Political Genre: New Adult, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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