I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would. Because the cover isn’t particularly "appealing" to me and I take covers really seriously. Anyway, we have Leila who just wants a normal life as a "human" but unfortunately overnight she became the queen of the fae. If i got that job I'd scream out of my mind and accept the position without reading the job description but Leila had something else in mind.The rest of the book is Leila trying to survive the hateful court with her humorous but somehow...

(I've discarded my rambly analytical bullet points in favor of this, but...)WOAH!! Just...WOAH!! The writing, pacing, the character development, the relationships and side characters and progressions were just.....perfect. Ten points for amazing parental figures for the main heroine and 100 points for her slow character development. I love the fact that the heroine doesn't end up fully fixing her prejudice but DOES do her best.No big negatives, honestly...Okay, this is the first time I found mys...

(4.5 stars) - Return to Magiford! (w/a Parental Caveat) The heroine of this fun book is Leila, whom readers of Hall of Blood and Mercy will remember as the Drake family's neighbor with the dogs & the donkey who helped Hazel after she was kicked out.It's not necessary to have read the Hall of Blood and Mercy trilogy to read this one, but it will help you better understand the magic-verse Leila lives in (and it's a totally awesome series, anyway)Leila is half human-half fae, but prefers humanity o...

I found this while browsing KU. I've read Shea before and I thought the premise was good so I gave it a go. Parts of it were kind of campy and over the top silly and the middle almost lost me, but I ended up liking it enough to download the second in the series.I thought Leila was kind of funny to start with, but she seemed petty and immature toward the middle of the book. She kept doing things to embarrass the nobles of her court, which seemed so strange to me. She definitely showed her age (an...

Free on Amazon alert! https://kmshea.com/2022/02/17/comd-th...Ends on Mon. 02.21.22The rest of this trilogy is for sale at 99 cents each! :) I love Shea's writing - the stories are light and funny but with plenty of development and twists. <3 (I skimmed through these... so I didn't "properly" read them yet. Need to sit down when I have the time... xD)

✰ 4 'Wraith' Stars ✰ He stared at me. “You’re planning something.” “Only sort of,” I said. He shrugged. “Don’t bring ruin to our Court.” With that “beautiful” and “touching” advice, he left. -ˏˋ A Visual of My Thoughts After Reading ˎˊ- It has been confirmed, K.M. Shea is an official favorite author of mine. What a time to be alive ❤︎ stay tuned for a longer review in the future. . .i'll probably write a series review once i finish books two and three ✨

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Half fae and half human Leila prefers humans over the duplicitous and backstabbing fae, but when she is marked as the new Queen the Night Court she finds herself right in the middle of fae life/society. Enemies at every turn she is determined to eradicate the power games that are destroying the court, but to wear her crown she needs to marry, an archaic tradition that has her more than a little peeved. Sadly we don't get a moment like in Princess Diaries 2 (the movie) where she says gets the law...

While this is first in a new series, it's a direct follow-on of the author's Hall of Blood and Mercy series and there's a lot of cross-over, at least to start (not least of which that it was in that series that the Night Court crisis culminates). Since I loved that initial series, I highly recommend reading it first. That said, you can definitely start here if you like and don't mind a couple of cameo's that won't gel without knowing the events from before.I really liked Leila in her appearances...

The first time they met, the hero tried to kill the heroine and failed!Later on, she’s married him 😂.Well, she is a clever and cunning woman, for sure 😘.I will write a full review on book #3 after I finished this fabulous trilogy.❤️❤️❤️

If it weren`t for the promise that I had made myself last year, I wouldn`t have even bothered with a review. I promised myself that I`ll try to write something, anything about every book I finish and put on Goodreads. It is my fault, all right? I am waiting for the January because it seems that all the good books were pilled up for that month and until then I am swimming in the pool of shallow plots.This is a rip off of the ACOTAR or not even that series, maybe any kind of series that had a hero...

This series starts after the end of Killian and Hazel's book. It's about Leila, their neighbor who trained the dogs. This is a terrific series if its been a while since you read Hazels book. I say that because Leila is Hazel with another name basically and the same for Killian and Rigel. They both have the same temperament, the same moral compass, the same quirks, they could be the same people. There is no romance in this book, just banter between the two main characters.Since its being a while

There are not enough stars for this book! SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I have already read it twice. It is that good! KM Shea just keeps getting better and better with each book, and this one is her best yet! Though, I adore every book she has ever written, to be honest! This book is about Leila, who was a minor character in the connected House of Blood and Mercy series. While the previous series focused on wizards and vampires, this series is about the fae. It is an urban fantasy series, so it was f...

I loved the Magic series that is the starting series to these. If you haven't read that series start there. Shea has a couple different writing styles and the style she went with in this series is not my favorite. Is is more young adult and zany. Zany is a really good word for it. Amusing and unconventional. I have to be in the mood for those and I was looking more for the feel I got in the Magic series. Leila is a very reluctant Queen of the fay and this is the story of how she got to be queen....

3.5 stars Rounded Up There were many things that I liked about this book, Leila’s supportive family, Leiela’s animal magic, and Leila herself… most of the time. I loved that she could hold her own against bespelled animals and murderous fey creatures. I even loved her willingness, once she realized that she had no choice, to start trying to change the Night Court for the better. But, sometimes, I got a little frustrated with her. It made perfect sense why she didn’t trust the fey and why she mad...