Reign of Cinders & Glass; Faited Fairytales Book One by Linsey Hall @ Veronica Douglas
- I am obsessed & couldn't put it down!
I'm going to confess that I don't normally like fairytale retellings. That being said this book sucked me in immediately! I couldn't put it down. I stayed up all night. What makes this book so enthralling the fact that it's a totally different story. Plus you have a vampire with conflicting emotions trying to be a gentleman. Ella lives with her step mom who yeah she did a few bad things but I still believe she isn't as bad as some. Mine was. Anyhoo Ella's sister Belle has been missing for five days. While it is normal for her to be gone a few days she has never been gone this long. Ella is worried to death because you don't go out into the woods at night. There are monsters & immortals better known as vampires. Yet she is so desperate to find her sister she doesn't care. She stays out hunting in the forest going to all her & her sisters places they play in the forest in the daytime. There is an immortal crazed with bloodlust. If Ella didn't happen to have some magic in her she wouldn't have made it to a temporarily safe place. She gets brave & confronts it with a dagger. She is amazingly able to stab this immortal 5 times around his heart. As she is about to be attacked again (knife was kicked away) a horse & rider jump over her. The immortal on the horse is rude to her & insists she go home. After ease dropping Ella finds out her sister is being looked for by her stepmother. And that both of them are in the resistance. They need a new person to get a job at the castle & spy for them. Since they don't have Belle anymore. Immediately Ella volunteers to go because she will do anything to find her sister. Prince Cassius is immediately drawn to her. She is beautiful & has silver hair with lavender eyes. No one else has silver hair. She is hired as a maid to a courtier. What she doesn't know is the prince did this to keep the men in the castle from trying to touch her. He immediately starts spreading around that she is his & no one is to touch her. Apparently the horrid woman she works for didn't get the memo. This woman is mean, violent, verbally abusive, & punishes with chores. Then her sister Bianca who believe it or not is worse. Every time Cassius represents or punished these two things for Ella get worse. Finally because of the spying she does her life is on the line (this happens several times). In order to save it they come up with a lie. Cassius finally bites her & they leave it visible in a beautiful dress. He wants her to walk around & say they were together the whole half of the day in bed. So she had an alibi. Because she discovered that there is a hidden tower (by magic) that contains three powerful people & it appears the Prince doesn't have as much authority as she thought. I have no idea how Cassius held off so long when it came to drinking her blood & taking her v card. The love scenes are so good I still can't get them out of my head. The ending you won't see coming. Fantastic read!!!
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