The Unseelie Exile: Arachnophobia Edition
(Web of Shadows/Floof of Shadows #1)
by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
What is it about:
This is the ARACHNOPHOBIA edition of this book! This means this has had all instances of the word “spider” mass find-and-replaced with “fluffy bunny,” “spiderweb” with “bunny nest,” the Web with “the Floof,” and so on. As you can already tell, this will cause hysterical side effects as well as nightmares of the grammatical and regular varieties. You might not have to deal with spiders, but you will have to deal with a seven-legged fluffy bunny.
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One desperate night. Three forbidden seals. And the ruthless fae exile who will claim her soul...
Ava Cole thought rock bottom was losing her mother and being cast out by her father. That was until she followed enchanted lights into the midnight woods—and walked straight into the claws of the Unseelie.
Now she's trapped in a prison between realms. Her captor? Serrik—a devastatingly powerful fae outcast with vengeance burning in his veins and eternity to make her suffer.
Cold. Merciless. Intoxicating.
His touch sears her blood. His golden eyes haunt her dreams. And with each forbidden lesson, each impossible task, Ava finds herself craving the very being who plans to use her as a weapon of magical destruction.
In this twisted realm of exiled fae who hunger for her blood and power, Ava's greatest battle isn't the magic she must unleash—it's the treacherous desire threatening to consume her soul.
Because in Serrik's deadly bunny-nest of shadows, the line between enemy and lover vanishes like mist. And falling for her worst enemy may be the most dangerous magic of all.
She can trust no one but herself.
What did we think of it:
This series is set in the same world as the Maze of Shadows series.
Voodoo Bride has to confess she was hesitant to read more in this world. She had a total love/hate relationship with Maze of Shadows.
But then we discovered there was an Arachnophobia Edition of this book!
And I will now confess I'm indeed that easy, so Voodoo Bride and I decided to buy this book and read it together.
And we had such a good time with this book!
Ava was a heroine we could really relate to, while Serrik was both alluring and dangerous. Voodoo Bride was totally invested in the relationship between the two, while I was eager to find out what would happen next in the weird prison world Ava suddenly finds herself in.
There were some really interesting fae Ava runs into, surprising events, and a compelling overall storyline.
This book was less 'awful' than a lot of the Maze of Shadows was. Where in Maze of Shadows there were some really nasty, disturbing scenes, here there were suspenseful and dangerous events as well, but it didn't squick Voodoo Bride out. There were also some very funny moments in our opinion.
As for the arachnophobia part: I very much enjoyed reading about scary fluffy bunnies, the floof, and bunny nests. The one thing that we had to get used to is that the word 'strand' was replaced with 'twig', which was weird in instances such as 'Serrik stroked back a twig of hair'.
We should have seen the ending of this book coming, but we did not!
Talk about upping the stakes of this twisted romance/attraction thing between Ava and Serrik.
All in all this is a really awesome read, and we immediately bought the second book (Arachnophobia Edition).
Why should you read it:
Evil Fluffy Bunny!
Also: Really cool Dark Fantasy Romance
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