Title: A Kiss From A Knave
Series: Once Upon a Kingdom
Author: Leslie Kelly
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: November 16, 2021
Publisher: LK Books
ASIN: B09JV7B8K2
Once upon a time, in a land very close to our own, a greedy queen amassed a vast collection of priceless stolen artifacts.
People from other lands suspected her thievery, but none could prove it. Once taken, their own precious items disappeared forever. A delicate hair comb, a pair of fragile glass slippers, a gilt-edged mirror, golden straw, magic beans, an enchanted ax, and an antique oil lamp were among her hidden prizes. The most precious of all was a goblet that had once held the very essence of life and death—the decades of dreams of an entire sleeping kingdom.
Now, a group of rebels is out to stop the evil queen's plans. They must retrieve the magical antiquities before she can use them to seize power over all the kingdoms.
It will take someone very special to do the job. For it takes a thief to catch a thief...and a knave to outwit a queen!
The greatest thief in the land takes on the challenge, but he isn't alone on his quest. When a beautiful woman from another world lands right at his feet, he knows he must protect her from the powerful queen. He tells himself he will someday get her home to her own land.
But when the time comes, how will Jack Harte ever let Allie go?
My rating:
***ARC provided by author/publisher through BookSprout***
A quasi-retelling of Alice in Wonderland with a heroine from Earth ending up in a parallel reality/universe/world very similar to our own except they have magic and our fairy-tales are their history...
Anyway, I've been a fan of Leslie Kelly for a long time, but this one read like it was written by someone else. It was plodding and dull, the story failed to pull me in, the characters were bland, their insta-lust unrealistic (at least it could've been a result of a spell or something) and the fact they spent most of the story lusting after each other and bumping uglies even in the middle of danger was off-putting and certainly didn't help with the tempo of the story...Which, whatever scrape there was of it, seemed created for the sole purpose of having the characters lust for one another an-d bump uglies.
It was PWP, only with a better wrapping.
Disappointing.
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Hey, I'm so sorry you didn't like it! But I really do appreciate you reading it and giving it a shot. Can I ask one question? What is PWP?
ReplyDeleteThanks and hope the next book works better for you!!