Amid Clouds and Bones
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A princess determined to survive an arranged marriage to a heartless faerie prince is saved by a twist of fate that could destroy their world in this all-new standalone fantasy romance.
As the half faerie daughter of a human king, my days were spent tucked out of sight—until the Seelie Fae sought an alliance with our kingdom. In exchange for my father’s help in defeating their Unseelie enemies, I would wed Atakan the heartless.
The Seelie prince loathed everyone, but none more than me. Throughout the years leading to our nuptials, each encounter grew more terrifying than the last as he demonstrated how he’d earned his infamous reputation.
Fear would only doom me faster. So I learned to hide it with games I soon became happy to play. I wasn’t supposed to crave a monster. But just when I’d thought I might tame the untameable, fate intervened.
And delivered me straight to his enemy.
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I liked the characters and the story also felt really unique. The writing was doggie somehow different to many other books I just read, but still I liked it.
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I picked up Amid Clouds and Bones after seeing it highly recommended on the fantasy romance subreddit. (I get a fair few of my book recommendations from reddit — they're good if you know what subreddit to ask in!) Someone posted this book saying that it was a great example of enemies-to-lovers actually done right. And you know what? I agree with them. This was a fantastically done version of that particular trope — you really get the feeling that Mildred and Ataken actually hated each other to start. Mildred was a delightful heroine, and Ataken is kind of awful at first, but you do grow to love him in his own way.
My favorite sort of relationship in a romance book is one of antagonistic, knit-picking, teasing and fighting but not really hating each other. You get a lot of that here, but with the added bonus of being actually afraid that Mildred is actually physically in danger from Ataken. There's a lot of twisty turns in here, with a second possible romantic partner that shows up around mid-book — Vane. I loved Vane at first, mostly because he's described as being a huge man with wings, and a heart of gold, and then surprise – more twists! I hated that one, personally, but oh well. It did make sense in the context of the story, so I can't be too upset with that one.
You grow to love all of the characters, and just...this was fun. A lot of fun to read. Not necessarily the best written fantasy-romance that I've ever read, but it doesn't matter! I couldn't put this one down — I think I would have read it in a matter of hours if I wasn't a mother and didn't have to work! Four and a half stars, for pure enjoyment's sake. Oh AND — this is a standalone!
