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The Remnant Chronicles: The Kiss of Deception, the Heart of Betrayal, the Beauty of Darkness

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The prince, who did NOT want to get married to some princess he'd never met from a kingdom that was not friendly to his, finds out that said princess ran away from the wedding, therefore releasing him from an obligation he did NOT want. The Kiss of Deception is a pretty much fast-paced story of a princess who decides to take her life in her own hands and do something for herself, for once.

I’m going to start off by saying I have fallen completely in love with these books and have no idea why it’s taken me so long to read them!To me The Kiss of Deception started off boring and it remained really boring for the first 200 pages ugh. A bit cheesy, at times (especially Rafe; like, my boy is so smitten how is he even that whipped), but surely not a sickening kind of cheesy. It is not a high fantasy when the main character spends the entire fucking half of the book pretending to be a serving maid, daydreaming, and trying to decide which of two mysterious strangers she likes more. I fell in love with literally every character (apart from Malich and the Komizar - you’ll know when you read it). Even though there are a few times when her whole "which mysterious boy should I choose" thing gets a little overdone I can still stand behind her.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Books that are poorly written and full of smirking love interests with smoldering eyes that have weak-ass main characters flopping back and forth between their convictions and their love of boys.Especially considering how unfair, reactionary and very nearly malicious I think some of the top-rated reviews for this book here on Goodreads are. And the author could have pulled it off, but *surprise* the author chose insta lurveee and just no, goodbye. If some very vague mentions of a kingdom and some very vague mentions of special powers add up to fantasy world-building for you, then you probably won't have a problem with this book. Instead of just waiting for someone to save her, she actually uses her brain when facing difficult situations.

Watching my brother pick his nose would have been a more useful way to spend my time rather than on this pitiful excuse of a "fantasy" novel. Sure, that's obviously very logical behaviour and not creepy at all "hey I didn't even know you, and I didn't want to marry you, but now that you rejected me I'm going to spend my days tracking your ass down.

The character at the end of the book is entirely changed from the naive and idealistic teen she starts out as, and that's the point. What an incredibly beautiful fantasy read with well developed world building, honor, loyalty, love, deception and romance! The descriptions were lazy, the pacing was so off, and their entire escape sequence was two pages long.

I also did not really care much for any of the characters, and I felt the worldbuilding (even though it had some cool ideas) was quite shallow, especially where it shouldn't, like, huh, politics? I kept reading the same scenes over and over again and fully forgot I was reading a fantasy book because nothing fantastical was happening. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. And I honestly don't think you should worry about the "love triangle" either because it's mostly nonexistent.I’ve never met another protagonist who has that many lovers and crushes, I swear to god, it gets almost embarassing at some point), and they were both super duper likeable. Speaking of the different POVs, I really enjoyed that the chapters changed between Lia, Kaden, and Rafe because it helped me understand each character's personality, fears, and motivations more. She's so predictable that I can guess every thing that comes out of her mouth, and I'm alarmingly good at it. Little does she know that her father has sent people to look for her, and the two handsome men she has met are not who she thinks they are; one is a prince and the other an assassin whose job is to kill her.

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