Along the way, she meets Wrath, a prince of Hell and someone she’s been warned to stay away from since she and Vittoria were little girls. You should definitely give The Bridge Kingdom a read if you love strong female main characters that won’t take any bs! Promising to love him forever, she is turned to gold and locked away in the palace where only Midas can visit her.

The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen | Waterstones

Now, yes the bridge description was beautiful and we received a lot of information about Ithicana but I wish we knew more about the surrounding lands. Of course there are readers who hate them with a fiery passion, and will either wait for the series to be complete or, if they accidentally read a book with a cliffhanger ending, with go burn said book in a trash barrel and then leave a lovely 1 star review on every platform warning their fellow cliffhanger haters. A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. Ever since she was torn from her mother’s arms as a child, she has been trained to do one thing: infiltrate Ithicana so that she might learn the country’s secrets and ensure its demise.

The Arc of Lara making up a plan with the people of Ithicana who hate her, rescuing Aren from her father’s hands and how Aren struggles with his feelings for her, if he should forgive her or “kill” her, are amazing! It’s impossible to please every reader, because we are all different people who like different things.

The Bridge Kingdom - Penguin Books UK

For two years, Maridrina enforced a blockade at Southwatch, preventing any merchant ships from accessing our markets. Faintly, Aren could make out the crisp scent of rain on the breeze, and as they made their way up past the outskirts of the city proper, his shoulders finally relaxed. In my opinion, when writing romance, the most critical thing to get right is having the correct number of emotional beats that take you from zero to sixty on the romance meter. Brash and opinionated, as quick to anger as she was to laugh, she bantered her way into the good graces of each individual present by being wholly Maridrinian. Danielle Jensen’s dark fantasy world is woven together with rich history and lore, and the angst between the two main characters kept me on the edge of my seat.But as she infiltrates her new home - a lush paradise surrounded by tempest seas - and comes to know her new husband, Aren, Lara begins to question where the true evil resides. The literal death of him, he thought when they were only halfway up the crater slope, his breath rapid pants, his shirt glued to his back.