Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥 (there’s a few scenes but they are all so light I’m hesitant to even rate it a 2 steam)
Humor: A bit
Perspective: First person only from the heroine’s point of view.

Should I read in order?
This is the first book in Kova’s Married to Magic series

Basic plot:
The elves from every 100 years for the Human Queen, but this year one hasn’t been found.

Give this a try if you want:
- Fantasy romance – this takes place in a realm with various beings including vampires, elves, fae, humans and includes magic
- Opposites attract – heroine is a healer and brings life, hero is an elf king that is tired to death
- Royalty mains
- Persephone/Hades retelling feeling
- Slow burn with very light steam – it’s over 50% for a kiss and past 75% for light bedroom activity
- Is a complete story without a cliffhanger

Ages:
- Heroine is 19, not sure about hero but would guess...20s?

My thoughts:
I am so disappointed in this one! I am not sure what I was expecting but I just wanted more from this book in almost all ways.

I love the cover. It pulled me in and is what made me buy it.

But this book was so slow to me. I kept waiting for things to happen and I just felt like the whole book was so slow. The revelations at the end were anti-climatic after all the slogging I did.

You don’t get any hero perspective (okay, I know that happens sometimes), but they are also hardly together. They spend most of the book apart and it drove me bonkers. I just kept waiting for them to be together and I liked it when they were but then they would separate again. I still might go back and count the percentage they were on page together because it was not a lot!

The steam was an utter disappointment. This isn’t the book’s fault or anything, it’s just not what I prefer in romance. I would have done a bit better knowing this beforehand I guess. I was so ready for them to be together I was hoping for something explosive.

I also wanted more character depth. I feel like at the end I knew basically nothing about the hero. At all. The heroine I knew a bit more but for having an entire book in her perspective it wasn’t much.

Ultimately I was just bored. I kept putting it down and not wanting to read it after a good beginning. And I was not a fan of the awful family relationships that were just magically better at the end of the book. God I hate garbage family. HATE IT!

Cock/Hero Stats:

Hero is an elf. All elves have blue eyes. The hero can use magic (I’m not sure about the whole race). I think he has a cock but honestly that’s an assumption. You are given no details.

Content warnings:

Some light violence/scenes of death

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Pg 174 (54%) – kiss
Pg 243 (76%) – kiss that leads to vague sex
Pg 251 (79%) – kisses, table sex (hotter than scene 1 but still vague)
Pg 258 (81%) – kisses and fade to black sex
Total pages 317