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A King So Cold

Royals, Book 1

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A King So Cold

By: Ella Fields
Narrated by: Evelyn Rose
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Lies, love, lust and power. Bestselling author Ella Fields delivers a sexy, wickedly addictive dark fantasy romance.

All my life, I’d known my marriage would be arranged. What I never expected was to fall in love.

My betrothed was arrogance dressed in royal finery, and I longed to both disappear and step closer whenever he entered the room.

As princess of the Moon Kingdom, and daughter of the cruelest king our land had ever seen, I was well-versed in deceit and debauchery. The Sun Kingdom’s sly prince was no threat to me.

Assuming that was a grave mistake. For the ever-present smirk, irritating charm, and adoring gleam in his eyes began to melt the ice encasing my heart.

All too soon, hatred turned to love. I was captured by something I’d rarely experienced before—happiness.

But I should’ve known better.

After all, I’d been raised by a monster. And little did I know I was about to marry one.

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I love this duology and the story arc and character growth for the FMC is really well executed. This is also the best love triangle I have read, and it’s not usually my favorite trope. It was done incredibly well and it continued to be unpredictable. I’m a big Ella Fields fan and in the romantasy genre her writing is just superior to most other authors. Give the story time to build and you will not be disappointed!

Best love triangle & morally grey FMC

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I might have had different feelings about this if I read it instead of audiobook but I had to DNF. Did not hold my interest at all and was very confused the first couple hours of the book on who was who and what time period it was talking about .

DNF

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DNF. I'm only 5 hours in and I've had to force myself to keep reading several times. This book just absolutely dragged for me. I get the MC was not supposed to be a good person but there is not a single redeeming quality to her. She comes across as spoiled and petty the entire time. So, if that's not your thing, you're kind of out of luck because I couldn't tell you a single thing about either of the love interests or the world at this point. everything feels very bland and empty except for the MC who is just constantly the worst.

Waste of a Credit

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This story is what morally gray romantasy dreams are made of. I devoured this story, desperately wanting to know what was going to happen from page one! I absolutely adored the complexity of these characters, there were so many layers to this story and I was SCREAMING with all of the twists and turns. This story made me fall in love with Ella Fields and I will never get enough of this world, these characters or these stories. I have read this story three times (once via audio) and each time it hits just as hard and emotional.

𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳
➵ romantasy
➵ angsty reads
➵ arranged marriage
➵ fated mates
➵ intriguing magical systems
➵ morally grey characters

𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹 5/5⭐️ | 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 3/5🌶️ | 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 5/5🔥| 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 4/5🎧

Forever in love

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I had to force myself to finish this book because I spent a credit on it. Towards the end it gets better but the MC is hardly a redeemable character. There are parts that are definitely not for me especially parts about her father that were just vile and not needed for readers to understand how horrible he was. It’s slow paced and does not come to a good conclusion.

Too dark

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🌶 🌶 /5

I don't have much else to say, I kind of "nothing" this book.

I liked this series, but I didn't love it.

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I spent half an hour with Audible support thinking the wrong book downloaded. Then I finally went to Goodreads and read a totally different description of this book. Either way, not worth the credit.

I listened to 5 chapters, thinking it was some kind of pre-story, flash forward, or something else. For a while I thought it might even have been book 2 by accident. But based upon the Goodreads description, I think it might actually just be a totally misleading description in Audible. And the book seems awful.

In the first five chapters (I stopped after)…
It starts with the FC - an independent adult queen, not a princess being married off by her father the king - having sex with (based on book 2 description) the bad guy and about to agree to a wedding date with him. A servant comes to update her on the people she has just had executed and their bodies are hanging in public, so she goes to see the bodies like it’s no big deal to kill them. Then she finds out that her husband is about to get married to someone else. She flys off to capture him. Arriving there, the reader is informed that his memory of her and his being a king have all been wiped and he is living as a peasant. The queen barges into the wedding and drags him off, throws him in the dungeon, and goes back to her room where her lover (the bad guy) is waiting for her. (This is when I said enough to as enough.) She is cold and completely unlikable. She sounds more like a villain than a heroine. Her people fear her rather than love her. The narrator makes her sound emotionless and cold with a voice that wants to droll you to sleep. I jumped ahead and listened to the first sentence of each of another 4 chapters, and it’s sounds the same - no jump back to a time when she was once a sweet young princess falling in love.

Waste of time

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Story is slow. Main character is awful. It’s just not for me and I would not recommend at all.

Not worth your time

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