Format: E-Book, 316 pages
Release Date: March 8, 2021
Publisher: Supernal Publishing
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Fantasy / Romance
In the frigid woods at the edge of a storm, I’m going to find myself or die trying.
I’m
a fugitive of the fae city of Windhelm, framed for a murder I didn’t
commit. I only made it out of their dungeons by luck, and now I’m on the
run—but so is the Prince.
Nobody knows where he is, but my
instincts pull me toward the Veridian; a roaring tempest of dark magic
that roams the land of the winter fae.
Our trip through the
forest is cut short, though, by a group of fae that seize our carriage
and bring us to their village as their prisoners. The mark on my hand,
the mark of the white wolf, is the only thing that keeps them from
killing us outright, but if I can’t prove my mark is real, I’m only
prolonging the inevitable.
I don’t have time for these people. I need to find Cillian before he does something stupid, but I don’t have a lot of options.
Marked, by author Katerina Martinez, is the third installment in the author's The Coldest Fae series. This story picks up right where Stolen left off. Dahlia is now a fugitive from the Crown having escaped with the help of Mira, Melina, and Gullie. Her goal is to find the moon children hoping they are able to give her answers about the unique tattoo that appeared in the last installment. The moon children are the only fae who haven't pledged loyalty to the crown believing that their lands were stolen from them.
But there's always a catch. The moon children don't trust easily, especially outsiders like Dahlia and her friends. They've been led down the wrong path before, and have had other alleged white wolves show up only to fail their tests to prove they are worthy. Thus, we get a whole new cast of characters including but not limited to Toross, who just happens to be her uncle, and Ashera, who is the first alpha. They call themselves Guardians of the Valley, and Protectors of the Moon Children. They are angry at Cillian and his parents for taking what wasn't theirs and they want it back.
The mark that Dahlia wears hasn't been seen in thousands of years. It supposedly marks her as the White Wolf aka "Tath isia". Allegedly, she's been marked by an ancient Goddess or something. This book answers some really important questions as to who Dahlia's parents were, and what happened to them, and why she was sent away to live in the Human world where she was protected by mages. The reasons for my rating is pretty simple. It seems as though everything is happening without giving full explanations as to why Dahlia is able to do things others can not do.
Example: she began this series believing she was human. Then she gets kidnapped to Arcadia where her true self has started to come to the surface. Then, to make matters even more interesting, she's suddenly able to speak while she's shape shifting into, you guessed, it, a White Wolf. Maybe it's because I write things down, but you totally have to have been clued in that something was wrong with Cillian. If you've read Stolen, you know exactly what I am speaking of. This particular twist leads to a cliffhanger ending and what seems to be Dahlia putting herself back into harms way just to prove that she's something prophecy claimed would one day happen.
The sex scenes didn't impress me much, but that's just me. I think that Dahlia is too obsessed with Cillian and has let her guard down too many times. I think the author decided to make this an R-Rated book with Dahlia using curse words as though she was a trucker. Curse words don't upset me if they are used in the correct context of what's happening in the story or to the characters. I have no clue as to how many more installments are in this series, but I do hope the next installment is better than this one.
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