By Danielle L. Jensen
For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to
their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark
and nefarious magic to fad from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has
been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Cecile
de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far
more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.
Cecile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought
to Trollus: escape. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She
will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity.
But something unexpected happens while she’s waiting—she
begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and
married. She begins to make friends. And she begins to see that she may be the
only hope for the half-bloods—part troll, part human creatures who are slaves
to the full-blooded trolls. There is a rebellion brewing. And her prince,
Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.
As Cecile becomes involved in the intricate political games
of Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer’s daughter. She becomes a princess,
the hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus
forever.
This is yet another story that had overtones of Beauty and
the Beast, so how could I resist when it came on sale on my kindle for 1.99$?
Reading this was a fun adventure and very emotionally yanking. Cecile is forced
into a marriage that she doesn’t want, and is expected to produce the heir to
the Troll throne that will save them all from their curse. Tristan, her
husband, is cold toward her and barely civil. She becomes confused when she
realizes that the part of their wedding that marked both of their hands was a
binding deeper than skin, and she understands that she is able to tell where
Tristan is and what he is feeling, and he can tell what she is feeling too. She
realizes that there is more to Tristan than the mask he wears in public. His
feelings betray him, and Cecile starts to see that things are not as they seem,
and she begins to feel for him what she never thought she could: love. And if
she isn’t mistaken, he is beginning to feel the same. While this is a neat take
on the beauty and the beast story, it has some downfalls for me in the fact
that it has some heated scenes between Tristan and Cecile toward the end that
made me highly uncomfortable, and it will only get worse as the series
continues. I hate sex scenes, as I’ve repeatedly stated, and so, with a sigh, I’ll
leave this to those of you who don’t mind. It’s a good tale and will appeal to
people who like teen fiction with a little bit of a steamy romance.
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