Format: Kindle, 196 pages
Release Date: July 30, 2023
Publisher: Supernal Publishing
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
To escape my fate, I fled to Earth... now I'm stuck here.
Earth
isn't a safe place for the Fae, but it had to have been safer than
staying in Arcadia where some horrible monster was about to end my
life... right? So, I made a snap decision, opened a portal, and threw
myself, Valerian, and Tallin through it.
Totally thought that
through. There's no way that decision wasn't going to come back to bite
me in the butt. Only it did, because now we're stuck here, in London,
where my mother used to live.
I'm lucky my grandmothers didn't
forget who I was after the mess I got into with that crone. If not for
them, we would have nowhere to go, no way of recharging our magic, and
no way of getting home. As it is, things are looking dicey at best...
and Valerian still doesn't know I'm the reason he's stuck here, too.
Who would have thought the two of us would have a Fate Bond?
All the signs were there, but maybe I didn't want to know.
Hunted, by author Katerina Martinez, is the second installment in the authors Daughter of Ice and Moonlight series. This series is a direct spin-off of the authors The Coldest Fae series. In the previous installment, Princess Amara made a bad choice when she was approached by a crone after running away from the Royal Selection because she did not want to end up with someone who she had no feelings for. Because of that choice, Amara, as well as Royal Selection participant Valerian have been chased all over Arcadia by a spooky monster likely sent by fate to erase their existence.
In a while move that may have temporarily saved their lives, Amara opened a one way portal to the Earth realm and found sanctuary with her three grandmothers Evie, Helen, and Pepper who run a magic shop in London. Now Amara, Valerian, and Tallin, her trusty sprite, have to figure out how they can rewind time and correct the mistake that Amara has made where nobody knows who she is, and it appears that someone else may have been put in her place. With the help of her quirky grandmothers, who we only briefly met in the first series, who now play important parts in trying to protect their granddaughter before something bad happens to her.
Thoughts: I normally would say at this point that you should have some knowledge of The Coldest Fae series, but in this book, none of the characters from the first book may an appearance. I appreciate that the author uses the grandmothers in order to teach Amara some humility as well as the understanding that while Amara lives in Arcadia, she is still part human on her mother's side. They are also allowed to tell Amara that she literally screwed up; BADLY. Ergo, she may have some useful tools to partake in defeating the crone who basically destroyed her life. I like that the author has slowly brought Valerian and Amara together, and not rushed it as love as first lust. This book ends on yet another cliffhanger ending, but in this case, I think you will find it one of the best parts of this entire story. End.
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