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He's a ruthless, battle-scarred warrior with a dark past, and she's stuck pretending to be his wife to save a fantasy kingdom. From New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cast comes a new tarot-inspired fantasy series. Scarlett St. Clair meets Outlander in the seductive and spellbinding world of Towerfall, starting with The Empress, a high-heat, fake marriage romantasy with a swoon-worthy, morally-gray love interest. The Arcana aren't just figures in a tarot deck--they're real. Terrifyingly real. That's what I learned when I found a tarot card in the snow and was yanked from my world and into Towerfall. The first thing the people of this harsh, cruel realm did was try to kill me, and they probably would have succeeded if Kane hadn't taken me to his hideout in the woods and nursed me back to health. But I don't know if I can trust him. He's too hot to be good news, he's definitely hiding secrets, and I've already seen him kill two people to protect me. If I hadn't just been helplessly dumped into his world, the scars on his hands and his dark, brooding attitude would have me running in the opposite direction. But right now, convincing the Kingdom of Pentacles that Kane and I are married is my best chance of getting into the palace, and back to my own world. Because there's something wrong with Towerfall. Something deeply, terrifyingly wrong. And if anyone finds out Kane and I aren't really married? Well, then both of us are dead.
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1 primary bookTowerfall is a 1-book series first released in 2025 with contributions by Kristin Cast.
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I have to say the idea behind the book is what drew me in but unfortunately the execution wasn't what I had expected.
I was hoping for a well developed magic system, an empress that actually had cards in the game, and a tower that would be more magically involved than i would have imagined for a building. But instead the magic system fell short and both the empress and the tower were just symbols in a traveling multiverse kind of story.
The MMC wasn't bad perse but the childish people that surrounded her made the story feel cheap and immature. The fantasy world building wasn't bad at all but the characters motivations in that same setting felt lacking. There could have been much more of a backstory and development of the animosity. It felt like no character knew what their role exactly was, they just existed and their motivations just showed that.
Thank you to the author and Net Galley for the opportunity to review this book!