A Court This Cruel and Lovely

Kingdom of Lies, Book 1

De: Stacia Stark

Narrado por: Tim Paige, Meg Sylvan

For years, when I fell asleep, I dreamed of a man with blazing green eyes and a cruel smile. The day I meet him, the ruthless mercenary leaves me for dead.

Just hours after humans are born, the gods take what little power we have. In return, they protect our borders from the vicious, merciless fae.

The humans who manage to keep their power are known as the corrupt. And they are burned.

When my forbidden power is discovered, I’m forced to flee my tiny village and the life I adore. To survive, I make a desperate bargain with the mercenary who abandoned me at my weakest moment.

Our deal is simple: I’ll help him and his mysterious friends sneak into the city, and he’ll help me learn to wield the strange, dark power I’ve always kept hidden—the power that may just be the key to my survival.

But the ruthless mercenary is hiding secrets of his own, secrets that threaten the safety of everyone I love, that could tear this kingdom—and perhaps even this world—apart.

Please note: A Court This Cruel and Lovely is an NA/adult romantasy book with steam. While this series is slow burn, the chili-pepper rating will increase for each book.

©2023 Stacia Stark (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

way more than I expected

This was a wonderful surprise. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the description bc I don’t like the immature love stories between 2 people that just met and miraculously they fall in love without the how that happened! but I was happy I took the chance. there is humor, action, good character building and magic unfolding, and an overall fun dislike to love story. The narrator is great!

Good story!

I read this series on kindle and I like it. The males a bit much for me as far as his protective capacities go but it's a good story and the spice is real spicy. I will say I'm not a fan of the male narrator doing the female voices as they switch chapters. I wish it was graphic audio and can't wait for more of my favorites to be remade in graphic audio.

Crowns Criminals and Corruption

A war between humans and the fae damned the humans magic. To fight back at the fae, the king chose to take the humans magic when they are born and give it to the gods to keep them safe until they turn 25. If they pass the corruption test, part of their magic is returned to them. If you are found to have any magic abilities on that day, you and your entire family are killed for hiding the magic and not giving it to the gods as intended.

When a young woman only has a few years left before she is found out that her magic was still active, she has to hide it and make a plan to escape before she turns 25. Her time was cut short when someone in the village exposed her and she is forced to fee leaving her mother and brother behind. When she meets a group of missionary, one of which she had vivid dreams of changes her plans to flee the kingdom and puts her into even deeper danger than she imagined.

LOVED!

Everything I’ve been looking for in a book.
Starting book #2 now. Can’t wait to dive in further.

great new series

love the beginning of this series and can't wait for more. love the passion and romance

Good book

Love these narrators! Fell in love with them reading Hades and Persephone series. Heard the sample and decided to give it a try. I'm so glad I did. AWESOME STORY SO FAR. ON TO BOOK #2

Hooked from beginning

Nicely paced, purchased the next book before I even finished the first book. I really enjoy it a lot!

One of the top ten best books this year!

I’m so excited to read this entire series! I can’t believe this series has not blown up like some of the other authors. Will be buying the entire series. Completely amazing storyline, great characters, slow burn turned spicy and now a plot twist at the end I didn’t see coming!! 5 out 5 stars!

Read it/Listen to it

If you are a romantasy fan, this will not disappoint, enjoyed listening to this very much!

Amazing!!!

This series was so amazing! And that ending! Cannot wait to continue the adventure!!! It’s got magic and fae and power hungry immortal kings!!!!