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

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Always repressed and always blamed for the murder of her father, Ember has been kept in the shadows and held for her inheritance. Now this book is marketed as ACOTAR meets Bridgerton…the Bridgerton part – I totally get as it features a social season in which all young women are trying to find a husband.

If you are left behind or without the gown I’ve gifted you, the tickets will turn to ice and shatter, rendering them useless. Both characters had a lot of obstacles and doubt that initially made it difficult to understand and like each other, especially as Ember is limited in things she can say due to the constraints of her previous bargains and Franco had a tendency to hold back and not correct incorrect assumptions.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. They had their insecurities and doubts, but, through each other, they could accept or overcome them, in a way that shows how any real relationship should be: full of mutual support and encouragements. With the social season in full swing, and bringing with it a horde of husband-hungry socialites, he’ll do anything to delay the pressures of both marriage and the crown.

This was a fresh and very satisfying Cinderella story complete with hot fae, magical twists and a beautiful love story. It was highly enjoyable and loved all the references to the original story, but what I liked even more was all the new bits to the story which made it different from other Cinderella retellings that I have read before. I have yet to read a book by her when I would go "Oh, I think this will take me a week to read" or "I'm not in a mood to continue reading, but have to push myself". Being bound by her bargain and forced to act as a maid and do everything her step family wants, her life is anything but easy and all she wants is to escape.i despised the stepmother and stepsisters so much that i had to put the book down multiple times and tell myself that they're supposed to be vile and annoying but like. The Entangled with the Fae series continues onto it’s next retelling, bringing Cinderella to life in all of its Fae glory. It follows Ember, a half fae who is trapped in a bargain she was guilted into by her conniving step mother. Especially when, desperate to elude a forced marriage, she ends up agreeing to a new bargain with Maisie, the youngest princess of the Sea Court, which leads to her parading as Franco's new love interest. There were so many elements to this story that it nearly should have felt cramped or overwhelming, but it just worked.

Of course, Franco and Ember crossing their paths for the first time doesn't go quite well, igniting a spark of hate in Ember's heart for the Prince. Heart of the Raven Prince is a complete stand-alone novel set in the same world as The Fair Isle Trilogy. It also follows Franco, a fae prince who is misunderstood and rarely lets people see/know his true self to the point that he lets people spread a reputation about him that is mostly a series of unfortunate misunderstandings.

I also liked that the Prince had a playboy exterior but on the inside he is just a soft shy boy-which was fun to read in a ML. Outside of the plot and writing that was a bullseye for me, there were some thoughtfulness that the author drops into the story.