Genre: Dark Romance/Fairytale Retelling
Published: January 4, 2022
Pages: 348
She doesn’t belong to him… She belongs to the crown.
Prince Tristan Faasa was never destined for the throne. That was always his brother, Michael. The same brother responsible for both Tristan’s tormented childhood and the scar that mars his face. When their father dies, Michael is set to assume the throne, and Tristan is set to steal it. The leader of a secret rebellion, Tristan will stop at nothing to end his brother’s reign. But when Michael’s new betrothed, Lady Sara Beatreaux, arrives, Tristan finds himself in the middle of a new kind of war. The kind that begs the question of what’s more important—the crown or the woman about to wear it.
Sara has one plan. Marry the King and eradicate the Faasa line, even at the risk of her own peril. But she never expects the Scarred Prince. He’s dangerous. Forbidden. And one of the men she’s been sent to kill. But the line between hatred and passion has never seemed so thin, and as secrets come to light, Sara grows unsure of whom she can trust, torn between vengeance and the villain she was never supposed to love.
Prince Tristan Faasa was never destined for the throne. That was always his brother, Michael. The same brother responsible for both Tristan’s tormented childhood and the scar that mars his face. When their father dies, Michael is set to assume the throne, and Tristan is set to steal it. The leader of a secret rebellion, Tristan will stop at nothing to end his brother’s reign. But when Michael’s new betrothed, Lady Sara Beatreaux, arrives, Tristan finds himself in the middle of a new kind of war. The kind that begs the question of what’s more important—the crown or the woman about to wear it.
Sara has one plan. Marry the King and eradicate the Faasa line, even at the risk of her own peril. But she never expects the Scarred Prince. He’s dangerous. Forbidden. And one of the men she’s been sent to kill. But the line between hatred and passion has never seemed so thin, and as secrets come to light, Sara grows unsure of whom she can trust, torn between vengeance and the villain she was never supposed to love.
I listened to the audiobook version of this book through my library. This is my honest review.
I don't normally read books in series in quick succession because I've found I tend to get bored with the series pretty quickly that way. But I was able to borrow the audiobooks for most of this series all at once, and with only 21 days to listen to all of them, I had no choice but to listen to them back to back. I'm not sure if it's because I was listening to audiobooks or because the stories are about different classic stories, but I did not get bored with this series.
This book is a retelling of The Lion King that thankfully deviates from its Hamlet origins. And like the other books in this series, the characters you expect to be good and the characters you expect to be bad don't necessarily pan out. And they're largely not all one of the other either. I'm kind of ashamed to admit how long it took me to pick up on some of the subtle references to the source material in this one, like the ruling family's name. The narration was pleasant to listen to and was dual narrated for the two different POVs.
Overall I give Scarred 4.0965 out of 5 stars. - Katie
A longtime songwriter and an avid reader, Emily McIntire has always had a passion for the written word, and when she's not writing you can find her waiting on her long-lost Hogwarts letter, chasing her crazy toddler, or lost between the pages of a good book.
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