It’s still a slow burn, so slow that literally nothing has even happened yet except the shadow of an idea but I’m into it.

He also wants her to embrace it, use it, learn to wield it, not hide it away as Midas as always had her do. One I subconsciously guessed in the sense that I felt that question form in my head, but shoved it down so I wouldn’t spoil it for myself. Now that he’s gone off ruling the Fifth Kingdom after the machinations he set in motion in the first book, Malina sits on her ancestral throne…. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Let’s just say when you meet King Ravinger finally face-to-face, you’re going to be shown something you definitely did not see coming, honestly the moment was when I whispered “holy shit” out loud to myself and seriously get excited about where these books were going!To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And when he makes a mistake (3), his remorse is so palpable, so overflowing with regret and the need to make her see why he does what he does…unparalleled, it’s truly mind-blowing.

Are people so content in ignorance that they'll believe every lie fed to them, despite what they right in front of their eyes?

In the first book, we know she was not born with magic therefore she had to marry Midas because she was not fit to rule on her own.