A cautionary tale and dark retelling of the original Beauty and the Beast.A dark fae prince. A stolen human girl.And an unwanted marriage.Not all beasts can be redeemed…Callie doesn’t believe in fairy tales. Too bad they believe in her.The fae whisk Callie and her friend off to be prisoners of an eternal dance. But Callie is stolen again. Maybe the eternal dance wasn’t so bad after all… eternal dance wasn’t so bad after all…
A lethal fae has taken her as his unwilling bride, and she has to balance between life and death in his castle, while finding a way out of the dangerous fae realm. Only, she’s playing games with the Prince of War.
The Prince learns just how far Callie will go to save her friend from a lifetime of torture—and just what she will do to save herself from his clutches.
Callie must escape the wicked prince before she turns from prisoner to prey. But as the prince himself tells her, ‘Sacrifice is no noble thing in the fae realm.’
Everything in the fae realm comes at a price…
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The Prince’s Prisoner is a Dark Fae Retelling of the original Beauty and the Beast, and is the second book in the anthology series, Feared Fables. This story is a CAUTIONARY TALE (louder for those in the back who apparently have selective reading) and has never been labelled as a romance.
Can be read as a stand-alone. Please be aware of themes.
Content warnings can be found inside. The tag “romance” is used broadly here. Dark.
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Callie and her best friend Meghan are traveling through Scotland. Meghan leaves the bar with a guy and when she doesn’t com back Callie searches for her. Meghan has been taken to the forest and for the eternal dance by the fae. The fae are dark, cruel creatures with no mercy. Callie catches the eye of the Prince of War, Rain. Rain is no hero but he marries Callie as a bargain to the fae. Callie is a strong, tenacious woman and determined to save her friend Meghan. Will Callie be successful in saving herself and Meghan so they can return home? A dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
I received a copy of this book and am leaving a review.
I absolutely love a good fairytale retelling and this dark fae version was just fantastic! Well written with great characters I found myself unable to put this down till the end, that’s how good it was!
After heading off in pursuit of her friend Callie ends up a prisoner along with her friend of the eternal dance a captive of the vicious and deadly fae.
Desperate and in such pain Callie strikes a bargain with Rain Prince of War and unintentionally becomes his unwilling human bride.
I did initially find the narrative used here slightly confusing but this did settle the further I progressed on.
So I found this to be an imaginative read with some darker elements included.
Described as a Dark Fae Retelling of the original Beauty and the Beast this wasn’t quite what I was expecting.
It was only loosely connected to my favourite fairy-tale in as such there was a monster keeping Callie a prisoner in his castle a library and also a rose.
So how dark is this? if I am honest this was more shades of grey than actual dark dark.
I think maybe because this tended to explain events rather than place you in the action so in a sense this made it a lot easier to separate yourself from what was going on around and despite me thinking this was going to be some sort of dark romance I didn’t actually feel this was that at all which slightly disappointed me.
This just didn’t feel like a romance at all and I struggled to feel a deeper connection between Callie and Rain, I just wasn’t feeling the love.
I also didn’t really take to Callie at all, Rain despite his apparent monster status I was actually fascinated with, I have a soft spot for anyone bad who stays true to there nature so Rain just did it for me, Callie just seemed so Blah!!! in comparison.
This was also completely experienced from Callies POV which is not my prefered narration style and I also felt that the last third of this was extremely rushed.
There was just no closure for me, I wanted to see Rains reaction, experience his wrath first hand when catching up with his errant wife.
Again it was explained to me rather than experienced first hand.
Finally, the epilogue was intriguing just not enough to turn this around for me.
This was such a different interpretation of my favourite fairy-tale and if you are put off by the dark label here I really do think you will be fine with this as it really wasn’t in my opinion.
I voluntary reviewed a copy of The Prince’s Prisoner (Feared Fables, #2).
Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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