Rhiannon is dying—of what, she doesn’t know. Kept protected by her family in their remote seaside cottage, she spends her days searching for a cure. Her world is torn apart, however, when a fae King of the Dead invades her home.
Cold and cruel, Drystan offers her a choice: descend to the underworld as his bride or watch her family die. Trapped in a twisted bargain, Rhiannon is thrust into a world of withered gods, scheming courtiers, and ancient magic, but she refuses to be a pawn in a game she never agreed to play. She attempts over and over to run away, until Drystan offers her a new bargain: escape his deadly labyrinth, and he will set her free. Fail, and become his bride.
But in a court where every promise has teeth, Annon must make an impossible choice: return to the home she's always loved or claim her place in a world where she might finally belong.
King of Ravens pulled me straight into a world that felt dark and dangerous in all the best ways. The author builds her story with this slow, simmering tension that sneaks up on you, and before I knew it, I was fully invested in Rhiannon’s fight to survive. Even though she begins the story fragile and dying, there’s a certain stubborn spark in her, and she’s impossible to ignore. It made me root for her from the start. And when Drystan drags Annon away into his shadowed fae realm, the entire tone shifts into something richer, more mythic, and absolutely addictive.
The labyrinth trials and the eerie darkworld setting stuck with me long after I finished. Every challenge felt like peeling back another layer of a world built on old magic and hidden motives. Eh hem…the dynamic between Rhiannon and Drystan? Slow-burn, morally gray, and full of that “don’t get too close… but also don’t you dare look away” energy that I love. Their tension added so much depth without ever overshadowing the story itself.
By the end, I had that familiar thrill of knowing I’d only tasted the beginning of something bigger. The atmosphere, politics, the emotional undercurrents all left me hungry for more. Fantastic!
I cannot wait to devour the next installment, Queen of Thorns.
Thank you to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.
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