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    Two Princes of Summer
    Two Princes of Summer
    Two Princes of Summer
    Audiobook6 hours

    Two Princes of Summer

    Written by Nissa Leder

    Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Two fae princes fighting for the Summer crown. A mortal lured into Faerie and caught in their web. The battle that changes everything.

    After her mother's suicide, Scarlett's grief consumes her. When a beautiful, otherworldly stranger offers her a release from her pain, it's too tempting an opportunity to resist. She's lured into Faerie and sucked into a royal battle as two fae brothers prepare for the Battle of Heirs where the winner earns the right to the throne.

    Human emotion fuels fae power and Scarlett's is the most potent Cade has ever tasted. He's certain she is the key to defeating his brother Raith. But Raith has surprises of his own, and Scarlett fits perfectly into his devious plan.

    Scarlett must decide how far she's willing to go to avoid her guilt and heartache. As she is pulled further into the realm of magic and power, she discovers a dangerous secret that could change her fate forever.

    Will Scarlett find a way to cope with her sorrow and untangle herself from the two princes?

    Or will they devour her completely?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 18, 2018
    ISBN9781977336774
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    • 4/5
      I'm not one for fae books, but this book was very entertaining. Looking forward to the next book
    • 4/5
      3.5 Stars

      This was such a fun, easy read! I always love a good fae story. The writing style is pretty simple but I was actually surprised by how detailed this was. Yes the plot was predictable (at least to me) but the characters were complex, world building was solid and we had a great magic system. The romance is also sweet and slower moving. We end on a high note and I am looking forward to reading the rest of this series in the future. The perfect fluffy fantasy read.

      Content Notes/Trigger Warnings:
      - Strong Language
      - Grief/Suicide
      - Mental Illness
      - Kissing & Intercourse
    • 3/5
      I started reading this book as a joke because of all of the clichés and how bad they were. About half way through I actually got invested into the plot (even though it was predictable) and ended up finishing it in one night. The book was ok but I felt like there need more world-building and there where only like five core characters and all the characters were very cliché. Over all this book kinda reminds me of the cruel prince characters but it is set in a very similar world to aCoTaR.
    • 2/5
      To live in dreams is a waste of reality.
      The Writing and Worldbuilding

      Oh dear this is really bad. But in a kinda good way?

      So, this felt like something I would have written at the height of my fairy craze when I was 12 years old. In fact, this feels even more like a terrible vampire book I wrote during that time, almost word for word. It's written with that particular styleless style that people with zero narrative voice always use, where the MC is ~witty~ and lacks personality other than being pretty. For being a book supposedly about vampires - sorry, I mean ~high fae~ - it's not lyrical whatsoever, full of awkward exposition and that iconic YA brand of unrealistic dialogue and behavior from every single character.

      Besides its more ~scandalous~ parts (like the swears and the sexual stuff) this is basically the quintessential preteen dream of an ~edgy~ fairy book. It has the iconic YA fae who are for all intents and purposes just vampires that are born and grow up, and even has the mystical beings from an alternate dimension dress like 17th-century dandies and have indoor plumbing despite living in a medieval style castle. And they all speak like totally radical bad boys from the early 2000s - you know the kind, that spiked their hair and wore guyliner - or like bored cashiers at a supermarket. Scarlett, despite still being in high school, lives alone because her dad is AWOL and her mom is dead and her sister spends most of her time living at her college dorm. Because that's very realistic. Child services definitely would not have gotten involved after her mother committed suicide. The book was clearly very well thought out. Clearly.

      The plot was predictable and extremely tropey and cliche. The only good thing was that I honestly didn't really know who would win the Battle of the Heirs. Besides that one thing, though, there was no originality to anything. The actual different courts were sort of cool, except that we only really knew anything about two, maybe three of them. The magic system itself was full of holes and overall seemed to have few rules. The environment was just a white room and the other people inhabiting the Summer Court held zero presence so it felt like the only people who existed were the people currently on the page. The mortal world felt essentially the same but because I live in the mortal world irl I could use my imagination to fill in the gaps. Which isn't a good thing.

      She'd dug her own grave, but maybe, just maybe, there was a way to escape it.
      The Characters

      Scarlett: She's your classic "I'm not like other girls - in fact, I might actually be a secret fairy princess" YA heroine who lacks any personality besides her unusually beautiful face, Mary Sue skills that always come in handy, and dead mother. The dead mother was actually the most interesting part of her personality. She kind of had a character arc, and I sort of liked it, but it was more like someone in the other room was whispering an arc and she just absorbed it via osmosis.

      Cade: He's a straight up rapist. No, he doesn't actually get to rape her in this, but he definitely wanted to, all Rhysand style, so overall, I hated his guts from the moment I met him. There's some nuance there - that guy in the other room is thinking very loudly about nuance - but not enough to make him sympathetic at all.

      Raith: Fun fact: wraith is the only word that really rhymes with Faith.

      Raith was okay. He's basically just the Damon in the Salvatore family parallel so I liked him and he was a better guy than his brother (because it's not exactly hard to be better than Cade) but he was still a douchebag, just a more interesting douchebag.

      Kassandra: She's just the obvious evil queen. Except it made no sense because everyone kept calling her "Miss Kassandra" like she was a slave owner in 17th-century Alabama or a 1st-grade teacher. She was the queen. Why didn't they call her royal honorifics? It's literally not hard to do.

      Jaser and Poppy: Jaser was nice but I kept seeing Jesper from Six of Crows and the personalities were basically the same so. Poppy had some completely random retroactive exposition during the climax that was entirely unnecessary. I was generally indifferent to her.

      Ashleigh and Natalie: Were they really characters or were they plot devices behind cardboard cutouts?

      Whatever you're willing to do to become ruler is who you'll be as king. There's no difference.
      Conclusion

      It isn't good but sometimes it's hilariously bad. The best thing about this book is the cover. And for being a self-published book, the formatting and cover are actually very professional looking. It had a nice aesthetic that did not extend to the novel itself. I won't be continuing the series.