Of course you can guess that Luella will be chosen as the next Queen and will have to follow Eldas, the elf king and marry him. Every hundred years or so, the village provides a new queen. The human queen is a girl possessing magic that is needed to restore the seasons in the elf’s world. We are on the day where an Elf delegation will come to the village as they expect the village to give them the next human queen. She always wanted to heal others and she has a small shop at her parents house. You have Luella, a young women whose village paid for her studies and who now is the village’s herbalist/healer. I found the world building and the story arc imaginative. I wanted to be amazed and I have been truly entertained but there was just small things missing to make me give it five stars.Įven if it’s not my best read of the year, that story has many assets! I love fantasy and especially stories about fae and elves. Second thing: this was a “bookstagram made me do it” as many friends raved about it. I went for the hardcover as the naked book is one of the prettiests. Short review once again as I am racing through books to finish the year. It’s perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon-worthy couple. The magical land of Midscape pulls on one corner of her heart, her home and people tug on another… but what will truly break her is a passion she never wanted.Ī Deal with the Elf King is a complete, stand-alone novel, inspired by the tales of Hades and Persephone, as well as Beauty and the Beast, with a “happily ever after” ending. Once there, she learns about a dying world that only she can save. Taken to a land filled with wild magic, Luella is forced to be the new queen to a cold yet blisteringly handsome Elf King. That is, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives… for her.Įverything Luella had thought she’d known about her life, and herself, was a lie. Instead, she’s dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town’s only healer.

A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella’s village to be their Human Queen. Three-thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Uprooted, this stand-alone, fantasy romance about a human girl and her marriage to the Elf King is impossible to put down! The elves come for two things: war and wives.

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