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

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About the Author Hannah Whitten has been writing to amuse herself since she could hold a pen, and she figured out sometime in high school that what amused her might also amuse others. Lore is a fun guide throughout, snarky and confident one moment, vulnerable and thoughtful the next. There are a lot of fantasy books that deal with a religion that has been built up around one god after the destruction of a larger pantheon that came before.

A minute later, Val was striding down the street toward her, with the same determined gait that equally served for a casual stroll or a charge into a knife fight. I’m not sure if this was a failing of the system itself or how it was described, but readers should be prepared to devote some thought and reading time into absorbing this aspect.The one she’d shocked Mari with on that day ten years ago, when she was a thirteen-year-old wandering in the streets with blank eyes and a fresh burn scar on her palm. Part of my problem with love triangles is that I always feel as if the true love interest is telegraphed so clearly and so early that the second romantic storyline just feels like rather boring subterfuge. I found myself not only confused but intrigued, and I’m now half-wondering if Whitten is pulling a fast one on me and neither character will be a true love interest by the end of the series. She was tied into this damn city as surely as death was tied into life, as surely as the crescent moon burned into the bottom curve of her palm.

If you like found families, courtly intrigue, high-stake secrets, hot priests, powerful characters who are on a journey to accepting themselves and learning to wield their powers, and a dash (okay, more than that) of necromancy, The Foxglove King will be the book of your dreams—and your nightmares.Whitten gives us just enough detail (mostly in terms of the political structure, class structure, and religion) of the world to get by. All of this to say, I am fully on board Whitten’s train, and I was super excited when I saw that she was releasing a new book this spring that would be the first in a new series. She squinted from beneath a pile of gold curls through the light-laden dust, paint still smeared across her lips. You’ll get sucked into the plot and then when it is over you’ll pull yourself out of the book and barely think about it again…while also eagerly waiting for the next volume. Those born to darkness will carry it in their nature; they will carry sin in their very selves, body and mind and soul.