Heart of the Raven Prince: A Cinderella Retelling (Entangled with Fae)

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I suppose I had a crush on them both for a time, but Evelyn was someone I think I could have been happy with. First off, I wrote a wonderful review for Heart of the Raven Prince and now I can’t find it and genuinely want to cry. This was a great Cinderella retelling, set in the same world as The Fair Isle Trilogy, the action happening 21 years later. It needs to be said that I liked this one much more than the previous book and that's saying something cuz the latter was a beauty and the beast retelling. Definitely a softer read than I would’ve expected, but it was a read that brought me happy surprises and while there is steam it is very mild and mostly emotional more than anything else.

I was immediately caught up in Ember and Franco's enemies to lovers romance and I didn't want it to end. I will honestly say I went into this book because of this phrase “ ACOTAR meets Bridgerton in this standalone fairytale retelling of Cinderella“. She brought vulnerability where I expected power play, she brought honestly where I expected a game of lies and where I thought I’d see exactly Cinderella on paper in a Fae fantasy retelling, she brought a wonderful story touched by elements of Cinderella.The other books in the series take on different fairytales so if cinderella isn't your cup of tea I'd def recommend one of the other ones!

Along the way, she has to pretend to be a princess and become the Prince Franco's new love interest. My frustration when Ember was backed into a corner only enhanced my feelings and attachments towards the story and characters.Until one day, she gets a letter sending her (and unfortunately her family) to a ball that changes everything. Heart Of The Raven Prince had one of the sweetest slow burns I've read in a while, and with a hint of enemies to lovers, this was right up my alley.

On the other hand, Franco's sister decides the take her brother's love life in her hands and persuades her brother to court the princess of Sea land.Just because your namesake places you amongst ash and cinders, doesn’t mean you should seek cosmetics from a chimney. He was such a powerful and impressive Fae that no one really tried to see beneath the facade he had created and I think it was wonderful to see how much emotion he actually had and how big his heart was. While there’s absolutely nothing wrong with protagonists who’ve gotten themselves into a fix, we’ve seen that so much that we forget that another way exists. Heart of the Raven Prince is a complete stand-alone novel set in the same world as The Fair Isle Trilogy.