Moreover, the faes that Brie encounters don’t really do anything fae-like for most of the time.

The Seelie and Unseelie court weren’t differentiated at all from one another. There wasn’t any world-building, throughout the story we only get some descriptions of the palace and that’s basically it. Let’s start with the Faerie courts and how all over the place they were. Overall, I was expecting so much more from this book but unfortunately it didn’t meet my expectations. These Hollow Vows had a lot of elements that I was supposed to love and that in the end I didn’t enjoy as much as I had hoped. And with her heart.Īn ARC of this book was provided by the publisher HMH Books for Young Readers via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. As Brie spends time with their mysterious leader, Finn, she struggles to resist his seductive charm.Ĭaught between two dangerous courts, Brie must decide who to trust with her loyalty. Unwilling to let her heart distract her, she accepts help from a band of Unseelie misfits with their own secret agenda. Brie’s only choice is to pose as a potential bride for Prince Ronan, and she soon finds herself falling for him. Gaining unfettered access to the Seelie court is easier said than done. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, she’ll do whatever it takes to get her back-including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court. Synopsis: From New York Times best-selling author Lexi Ryan, Cruel Prince meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this sexy, action-packed fantasy about a girl who is caught between two treacherous faerie courts and their dangerously seductive princes.īrie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street.

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