The Color Thief

A princess on the verge of accepting a proposal of marriage has her family threatened by more than a secret. She races against time to save them.

Princess Helena has finally decides who she is going to marry when she notices that her parents are sick. The King and Queen are fading to black and white as someone is draining the color out of them. The Princess leaves, with her trusty Royal Guard Dresden, in search of who is using magic to kill her parents. Dresden has been in love with the Princess for years, but has never told her. As they travel across a kingdom, they face danger and wonder allowing Helena to view Dresden and magic in a different light.

The Color Thief (2018) was a surprise for me. I very rarely read blurbs of books anymore unless I am in a bookstore. Therefore, I had no clue what this book was about. When I started the story, I thought it was going in one direction, but Emily Poirier took me in a completely different direction. I love it. There is mystery mixed in with young romance and fantasy. Love blooms amidst the hazards of magic and truth. Poirier takes her time with it. She lets Helena explore these new feelings of love for a woman slowly and the love making is the same. I would actually recommend this to someone just starting out in the sexual exploration. Poirier is very realistic and sensitive to someone who has not done this before which I have not read yet.

The story concentrates more on the journey to the answers than the bigger problem – not that your parents dying is not a big problem. I have to assume that Poirier is going to have a second book to answer this question, because if you got as invested in the story as I did, you are going to have questions and want to know the details of the bigger story. (Notice I am trying not to give away the big reveal (laugh), it is harder than you might think (laugh).) Do not let the cover fool you, this is an adult book. It is a fantasy romance that will fill your time with color instead of taking it away.

I received this book for free in a Goodreads Giveaway and give my opinion without prejudice and freely.