Book Blurb:
One Kind of Wicked
The True and the Crown Book 1
by May Dawson
Genre: Reverse Harem Fantasy Romance
After my father almost destroyed my world, I was exiled from the land of mists and magic. I was just a child when soldiers of the Crown dragged me through a portal to your world, and I’ve been trying to get home ever since.
When I’m invited home to attend the academy of magic, I know there are strings attached.
Those strings may have something to do with three handsome, alluring men who befriend me.
I can’t trust them, but I can’t resist the pull I feel for them, either. It’s been a long time since I had friends.
My chance to stay home is tied to how useful I can make myself. My father’s henchmen, the True, want me to restore his wicked glory. The Crown’s spies wants to use me to destroy the True. I’ll have to pick a side, and fight, or I'll be exiled again. Or worse.
And in the midst of all this swirling intrigue, I’m failing both Calculus *and* Casting.
These men seem determined to tutor me, fix me and most of all, protect me.
But my deep, dark secret is that the dread magician’s daughter…doesn’t have her magic anymore.
When they realize how useless I am, will they still stand by my side?
Welcome to a world where redemption is possible, where friendship and adventure and magic abound, and where love means never having to choose.
One Kind of Wicked is the first in a university-age academy reverse harem series. It first appeared as Three Kinds of Wicked.
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My Review:
4 Out Of 5 Stars
Genre: Another-World, Mystery, Reverse Harem, Supernatural, Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Witches--
Tera has been living her life of exile on earth ever since she was cast out of the magic realm Avalon for her father's dark crimes. When she received an acceptance letter to return to college in Avalon, she jumps at the opportunity. But she was unprepared for the welcome the exiled daughter of the Dark Lord would receive. Nobody seems to want her back, suspicious that she will continue her father's deathly ways. For no reason she can understand, three powerful men have her back and might help her to survive her freshman year of college.
Then I hear the soft beating of a heart. Not mine. This is a low, steady rhythm.
I pluck the wand out of the glass. I’m ready to run. I’m ready to club someone with this wand, since that’s all I know how to do with it.
And frankly, the wand deserves a bit of clubbing.
This would have been the story of Harry Potter after the events of the last book if the Dark Lord had a daughter and if Hogwarts was a college. This was everything that I did not know I needed mixed together- college aged Harry Potter meets reverse harem (you know, a more adult version of HP with sex and potential three-soms). There was mystery, magic, unsaid secrets, dangerous secret society (ala death eaters style), a rebellion, college drama, hot helpful men, angst...all ingredients to make up the perfect next fix for my urban fantasy loving heart. Oh, and did I mention baby dragons??
Ok here is a potentially spoilerly side note based on my personal preference- take it as you will. You find out half way through that two of the guys are having a sexual and emotional romance with each other, which I found super surprising. As someone who hates to share in real life and appreciates my RH where the guys only want/lust after the main character, I would prefer if the guys stay in a monogamous relationship with each other- I think they are cute together and would have preferred that relationship dynamic instead- but maybe I am just trying to couple everyone off to live HEA. Just saying, but to each his own. AND it was out of the blue when the heat level in the story ramped up from almost nothing to some potential crazy intensity out of nowhere about 60% into the story.
Overall this was a very interesting ride and I am so into this series. I will be picking up the rest of the books to read because I need to know what will happen next!
I reviewed a complimentary copy of this title.
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Check out the other books in The True and Crown Series
Book Blurb:
Two Kinds of Damned (The True and the Crown #2)
The True want me. The Crown wants to use me. But what do I want?
The academy of magic doesn’t have frat parties; it has balls with tuxedos and flowing champagne and chocolate fountains. Oh, and masked debauchery. Lots of that.
Unfortunately, instead of enjoying the debauchery with the three alluring magicians I’m falling for, I’m there to draw out the True henchmen. I’m nothing but bait in a ball gown.
To serve my country—and to stay in Avalon—I need to play the part of a villain. The True need to think I can be persuaded stand alongside them as they destroy Avalon.
At least these three men see me as I really am: a woman who just wants a second chance.
Unfortunately, they’re hiding secrets of their own…
And some of those secrets will be revealed, even before the masks come off.
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Book Blurb:
Three Kinds of Lost (The True and the Crown #3)
The university of magic is no place for the dark lord’s daughter…and the Crown Prince’s birthday ball is no place for her either.
But it’s not the kind of invitation that a girl can reject. So, my men and I pack up our fancy clothes and off we go to the prince’s castle. We have a mission along the way. The secrets that have kept me safe until now are crumbling. I need my magic back, now.
Without my magic, without being useful to the Crown, I can look forward to a one-way ticket back to your world.
Or a one-way ticket to dead.
But while my men and I hunt the man who stole my magic and destroyed part of my soul…
…he’s hunting me too.
By the time our battle is over, every truth will be revealed. Every lie will be destroyed.
Will Avalon ever be the same?
Will my heart?
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Author Bio:
May Dawson writes reverse harem romance about magic, strong women, and the men who love them. A native New Yorker, she's settled in Virginia, where she is raising two red-headed troublemakers and a passel of cats.
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