The Foxglove King: The Sunday Times bestselling romantasy phenomenon (The Nightshade Crown)

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She is a developed enough character to carry the plot, but character development doesn’t run too deep. This was a bit disappointing because one of my favorite elements of Whitten’s previous Wilderwood Duology was the lush descriptions. In the year she’d been living with Michal, it’d become very obvious that she’d never get along with his sister.

There is also life magic, Spiritum, which is much more difficult to control being Spiritum holds on to beings a lot more powerfully than death. The romance in “The Foxglove King” is more than just a simple love story — it’s a complicated affair that adds a layer of tension to the plot.It had the look of a construction that had been many things in its time, so many that they’d all canceled one another out, so now it was nearly featureless. The Foxglove King is beautifully written, lushly cinematic, unsettlingly mysterious—an unputdownable story of humans and gods. Sometimes Lore thought that if you peeled off her skin and turned it inside out, there’d be a map on the slick underside, pressed into the meat of her. Dripping with dark opulence and sizzling intrigue, The Foxglove King proves Hannah Whitten is a force to be reckoned with. I wasn’t going to go, but rumor has it there might be an orgy afterward, and I can’t very well turn that down.

Even as her awareness of it grew, a steady climb over the last few months, she was usually able to ignore it, but Pierre’s unexpected foxglove had thrown her off balance. I was also thrown off by some of the prose decisions where the language felt a bit too modern, which also detracted from that dark and gothic vibe. Lore is a fun guide throughout, snarky and confident one moment, vulnerable and thoughtful the next.Pierre didn’t seem to spare any thought for why she’d exited the house barely dressed when mornings near the harbor always carried a chill, even in summer. Lore heard Elle heave a sigh, as if her brother’s job were a personal affront, the thin walls making it sound like she was right next to Lore instead of all the way on the first floor. Bastian, too, is a fully realized character, and his story explores themes of responsibility, power, and trust.

Not exactly true, since she hadn’t noticed until she’d sensed the Mortem, but by the time he could examine himself, the effect would’ve worn off anyway. At a certain point early in the book, I had to consciously choose to stop trying to understand this and just go with it.She squinted from beneath a pile of gold curls through the light-laden dust, paint still smeared across her lips. The Foxglove Kingis a decadent and deadlyfeast of a novel, brimming with romance, intrigue, and twisted magic.