The second book in the Fallen Angel, Immortal Romance Series takes us from the Arcades and the kingdom of dark angels to The Cirque, a fairy realm where Farrow’s brother Prince Drayden rules. Born half fairy and half-fallen angel, Drayden possesses both goodness and evil. After being told by the Gods of Estancia that Farrow can’t keep Rayelynn in the Arcades, he risks losing the only being he has … being he has ever loved to keep her safe. By leaving Rayelynn in the Cirque with Drayden, Farrow fears she will be enticed by the fairy life she deserves and the brother who has already professed his desire to claim her for himself.
Drayden is a gracious host to the sweet and powerful fairy-mortal halfling who is carrying his brother’s children…but will risk his very soul to have her.
As Farrow becomes king of the Arcades, he works to prove to the gods he’s worthy of Rayelynn’s goodness and love, while Drayden falls deeper into a darkness that will destroy them all.
The Rise of a King is the second book in a trilogy. It has some dark themes and sexual situations that involve many polyamorous characters…who are immortal, slightly wicked, loving and oh so much fun. I recommend reading The Fall of Arcades before this book.
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The book continues where book one left off. Rayelyn and Farrow fall in love and Rayelyn is carrying Farrow’s baby. Farrow must leave Rayelyn in the Cirque Lands with his half-brother Prince Drayden who is half fairy and half fallen angel. Farrow has gone back to rule as the King of Arcades after killing his father leaving Rayelyn at the clutches of Drayden. I really enjoyed reading this second book in the Fallen Angel Immortal Romance series by Azriel Hope. I received this free book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I recieved this book free and I am voluntarily doing a review. This book was just as great as the first book. Wonderful characters and a storyline that wont let you put it down.
Powerfully Addictive Reading. True Love, True Hatefulness & So Much Harm!! A Wonderful 4.5 Star Read
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The Rise of a King: Fallen Angel, Immortal Romance Book #2
Rayelynn & Farrow, in such a short amount of time have fallen irrevocably in love. He’s tried all he can to protect her but the safest she’s ever been was with his older halfling brother, Fairy Prince Drayden, in his Cirque Lands. To finally kill his Father & to do all Fairy Queen Catalina & the Gods have asked of him, to be worthy enough to have Rayelynn as his Queen, he’ll need to return her to his Brother’s care! They’re hoping she’s carrying his baby, he can not risk them & will not! The Fairies & Gods will protect her!
Rayelynn is bereft to be left by her love. She knows why it has to be so, but she feels so lonely & unsafe without him. Drayden is kind enough but makes unwelcome passes at her, he’s Fae & they’re all so lustful!! She eventually finds some measure of comfort, as her belly grows, and she awaits Farrow to return for them!! He has to try to remake Arcades & it’s Fallen into a new place. It seems such an impossible task.
Oh, I truly adore this series! It’s scope grew & evolved in this book. People step up into roles that shouldn’t be possible & others descend into vileness exclusive to those destined for the pitts of Martu Mara, surely? Drayden himself is torn apart, he was ashamed & disgusted with himself but fears the outside influences he’s under & can’t beat! But did fight hard enough??
A truly fabulous 4.5 star read
Debbie, 1970, UK
I feel like I am just as much on the fence with this book as the previous one. The main reason being that I had the same experience and issues with it as with The Fall of Arcades. Sure, it had its good qualities too like an original and complex world, but they were kind of overpowered by the bad ones. This will therefore be mainly a critical review, so anyone sensitive of that should stop reading this now.
Just as in the first book I didn’t feel like I got much personality from the more important characters, especially Rayelynn. Only this time it was way more apparent since she took on a much bigger role and tried to be more involved with what was happening around her instead of letting it involve her. You’d think that would actually help develop some sort of personality, emotion or will from her, but nope. I didn’t find anything in her that made her deserving as a protagonist and heroine of the story. Sure, she got all of these descriptions connected to her name like innocent, meek, compassionate. Was she all that? Yes, especially meek in my opinion. However, a few descriptions she acts upon does not build a personality. Good development, character flaw and some sort of independence does and she never really had any of that.
Seriously, she could do no wrong, say something wrong, hate or be angry or make a bad decision. Neither did I ever really see her struggle, since everyone else around her did that for her. This in turn made me so annoyed that everyone thought her defecation smelled like roses and that she could walk on water. Everyone, and I mean everyone, was enamored with her. If they had male genitalia they wanted her and even those who were supposed to hate her (Baltane and Magravane or whatever her name was) somehow secretly adored her. This unrealistic love for her made her such an unrealistic and unrelatable character, because she had nothing behind her pretty facade to back it up. Anything that made her stand out was given to her with magic like a typical Mary Sue character so she never had to struggle and in the rare cases something horrible happened to her (e.g. what Drayden did to her) it was never anything that affected her much. Sure, she said it did, but it never showed any implications emotionally on her.
Of course, Rayelynn wasn’t the only character in the book so I can’t blame it all on her. Farrow and Anastasia had just as little development going from bad to good fallen Angels with a conscience out of nowhere and with very little reason or motivation. The story had Rayelynn as an excuse for this change of heart which made more sense for Farrow than it did Anastasia. Also considering what I wrote above about Rayelynn it felt off that someone like her could be behind such drastic change. This also include the ending of the story with the gods also unrealistically putting her on a pedestal for not even doing much and fixing everything with magic instead of an impactful struggle. Not a very impactful ending in my opinion.
I am sorry for bashing on an author’s work like this, but Mary Sue characters are my absolute pet peeve in books so it really gets me frustrated and feel like I have to write away my annoyance. If you who reads this review doesn’t get as triggered by such characters then maybe this book is more in your taste. It did after all have a very original world and plot. I just couldn’t get past Rayelynn as a main character to enjoy it so this will probably be it for me with this series.
I received an advanced review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.