I honestly don’t know why I finished these books. I guess it was to see if at any point the characters were redeemed or written better, but that didn’t happen.

The Fated to Darkness Trilogy is The King of Frost and Shadows, The Court of Thorns and Wings, and The Kingdom of Flames and Ash. They’re all on Kindle Unlimited so that may have played into my reading the entire trilogy. It was “free” so what was the harm? It took me so long to slog through these it almost pushed me into a reading slump.

The writing was awkward, there were typos, the dialogue often didn’t flow well, and there were major plot holes. Half the time, I was reading quotes aloud to my husband so he could be confused with me.

The King of Frost and Shadows is the first of this trilogy. Tavish, the king of the Unseelie fae, is working to claim his rightful land after the Seelie fae and the Dragonkind banded together to push his people out of their homeland after murdering his parents. He believes the answer to his plight is the Seelie Princess, hidden on Earth. After years haunting her dreams, he finds her on New Year’s Eve and kidnaps her to the fae realm again. She doesn’t remember who she is and he uses this to his advantage. He plans to drain her blood and use it to gain access to his homeland, but she’d have to die.

Now, he suddenly, weirdly decides he doesn’t want to kill her and this trilogy is him fighting his people not to kill her and then fighting her family and the dragonkind so she isn’t kidnapped and taken to marry the dragonkind prince. That’s the first book. It’s also the second book. Oh, and the third. Everything was so repetitive and downright boring.

I gave each of these three books 2 out of 5 stars. I would not recommend anyone read these unless you want to be confused and frustrated with me.