Prince of the Sorrows: Rowan Blood, Book 1

This book was amazing! I loved it, I loved the characters, I loved the story, I loved the world building, I loved the plot, and I loved everything about this book. This book is a high fantasy, romance type novel about a fairy Prince and a human who end up in a deal together about trying to find a way to remove the power behind the Prince's true name. This novel had drama and suspense and foreshadowing and really good character building. This book talked about certain dark tropes, and it discussed Royal politics, which I wasn't expecting. I can't really explain how much I love this book and how excited I am for the next installment in the series. This book was really good It is definitely a 5 star read for me and it's probably one of the best queer books that I have read in a long time. Normally when I read queer books they're usually written by cis female authors who just don't understand the complexities of queer relationships or of being queer in general. However, this book was written by a queer author who understands queer relationships and queer experiences, and understands the in's and out's of everything. I can't really say much more it's just a really good book. I really really can't wait for the next book to come out! I'm super excited for it! I can't wait for more. I really want more to the series. I feel like the length of this book was the perfect length for it to really set up the world, set up the plot, and set everything up with the romance and the story…

I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this book. I clearly enjoyed it, often finding myself reading it for hours at a time, continuously returning to it to read more. Yet ... I don't know how much I really cared about what was going on in the book itself. I loved the developing relationship between Saffron and Cylvan and I feel like that relationship was really the star of the story. Honestly, the characters themselves were really the star. I know there was a plot of some sort, but I feel like it was the characters who pushed it forward. I do wish we got more development and screen time from characters other than Cylvan and Saffron, but this is only the first book in a series and I feel it was focused on laying the groundwork of the main relationship and the world. As for the worldbuilding ... it's pretty basic for a dark faerie tale. There are Fae, there are humans, the Fae are cruel to the humans because why not, it's about what I expected. I am definitely interested in the different types of magic, and I look forward to reading the future books and seeing how it's fleshed out. I appreciated the queernorm world as well. A pet peeve of mine will always be when people write fantasy worlds and still stick to the gender binary and heteronormative society, it just doesn't make any sense. The book ended with a bit of a cliffhanger, not enough of one that I'm itching to pick up book two and continue the story, but enough of one that the thought is certainly…