What happened after the happily ever after?You all know the story of Rumpelstiltskin, but did you ever wonder what happened after the fairytale ending? Well we know. Not all afters end up happily, sometimes the real adventure starts much later…Vale hasn’t been the same for Princess Eliana since her husband passed away. Now, left grieving and pregnant, she finds solace in the peaceful meadows … in the peaceful meadows surrounding her castle, taking comfort in the presence of the wild unicorns who make the meadow their home.
But Eliana’s fragile peace is splintering…
Something is out to get the unicorns. Something that has Eliana’s mother, the Queen, going into overprotective overdrive as Eliana prepares to bring new life into the world. But Eliana refuses to hunker down in the palace like a coward.
With her childhood friend Jay at her side, can Eliana protect the unicorns and find who–or what–is hunting them?
Or will the safety of the meadows be jeopardized forever?
Following famous fairytale characters, eighteen years after their happily ever after, the Kingdom of Fairytales offers an edge of the seat thrill ride in an all new and sensational way to read.
Lighting-fast reads you won’t be able to put down
•Read in real time as each chapter follows a day in the life of a character throughout the entire year, with each bite-sized episode representing a week in the life of our hero.
•Each character’s story wrapped up at the end of every season with a brand new character and story featured in each season.
•Published every Wednesday throughout the year with each bite-sized episode representing a week in the life of our hero. Wednesdays will be your new favorite day of the week.
Fantasy has never been so epic!
SEASON ONE
SLEEPING BEAUTY
#1 Queen of Dragons
#2 Heiress of Embers
#3 Throne of Fury
#4 Goddess of Fire
SEASON FIVE
RUMPLESTILTSKIN
#1 Queen of Unicorns
#2 Heiress of Gold
#3 Throne of Sacrifice
#4 God of Loss
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J.A. Armitage’s Kingdom of Fairytales multi-series concept is really an ideal template – what happens after the “happily ever after” in classic fairytales – for multiple series, and she’s certainly taken advantage of it in multiple series either written by herself or co-authored with others. That’s certainly the case with the Kingdom of Fairytales: Rumpelstiltskin she’s coauthored with Jennifer Ellison. I’ve not read anything by the latter author previously but that’s one of the beauties of this over-arching multi-series collection: it introduces me to new authors with a sort of quality seal as I can trust that Armitage will choose her co-authors well. She absolutely did this time as each of the books in this series, Queen of Unicorns (Book 1), Heiress of Gold (Book 2), Throne of Sacrifice (Book 3) and Goddess of Loss (Book 4) was superbly written and the overarching story arc is perfect. Taking place 18 years after the end of the classic tale, Rumpelstiltskin is back in the Vale, unicorns are being hunted down and the heroine here, Eliana, is seemingly facing insurmountable odds. Ehss as t follows over the course of these four books is a really wonderful and exciting tale that’s easy to highly recommend and definitely makes me want to find more books by the co-author here (I’m already addicted to Armitage so reading her books is a given). One caveat: I’ve reviewed these all at once as this series really is best read from Book 1 on, though that’s actually easy to do as each is fast to read.
Queen of Unicorns is the first book in the Rumpelstiltskin arc by J.A. Armitage and Jennifer Ellision.
Princess Eliana is the daughter of the miller’s daugther. The people of Vale called her the unicorns princess as she have a great affinity with them.
She have lost her husband and is pregnant with their child. When a baby unicorn is trapped she do not hesitate do go to help him even is she’s almost due. After saving the baby her labour begins. After her child is being born, more trapped are being sets for the unicorns. The Queen is being more overprotective of her daughter and granddaughter, but Eliana doesn’t want her and her child to be cage in the palace.
I have received an arc of this book from the author. Can’t wait to read the next one.
Another amazingly fresh and unique take on the series premise. Family has been important through this series and this one features a strong and often tumultuous relationship between a mother and daughter. It explores themes familiar to the tale of Rumpelstiltskin – names and identity, love and loss. At the center is a mother’s need to protect her daughter warring with the daughter’s need for freedom and independence as she herself becomes a mother.
The first in the fifth series of the Kingdom of Fairytales series and it took us to the Vale with. Rumpelstiltskin retelling. This time, out princess is widowed and pregnant… I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to find out what happens next!