Tales of a Monstrous Heart
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
An instant Sunday Times bestseller and love letter to the Brontë sisters, Tales of a Monstrous Heart is a delicious gothic fantasy, filled with forbidden romance, magic, and monsters.
Be careful of the dark and those that call it friend.
Katherine Woodrow is fey, and all she wants is to graduate from the Institute of Magic. But when the prejudiced mortal council threaten her position at the institute, she is left with only one option: accept a Mage Partnership with the elusive Lord Blackthorn.
Emrys Blackthorn is a riddle Kat is fearful of solving. The mysterious, cursed war hero with his stormy eyes and unpredictable ways leaves Kat with more questions than answers. What she does know is that she is irresistibly drawn to him . . . no matter how forbidden it might be.
In this intoxicating gothic fantasy where passion collides with peril, and sorcery awakens monsters, a string of murders and fey disappearances herald the return of dark magic. Kat and Emrys are thrown into a world of ancient books that hide hideous monsters, dark fiends who play with nightmares, and mortal men who wish nothing more than to see them both burn.
But what haunts them both are secrets even ghosts dare not whisper, while insidious shadows lick their teeth and sharpen their claws, waiting for the moment that all tales will come to light—even the monstrous ones.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Delaney sets her atmospheric debut in a world full of magic and monsters but ruled by mortals, where the fey are disenfranchised and exploited. As a Kysillian fey, distinguished by pointy ears and golden skin, heroine Katherine "Kat" Woodrow is the most hated kind of fey. Her goal of graduating from the Institute of Magic has been hampered by a prejudiced administration, and after she unfairly receives most of the blame for a disaster she did not cause, she's forced to enter a Mage Partnership with Lord Emrys Blackthorn. Scarred, enigmatic, yet strangely caring, Emris proves an unexpectedly compatible partner, the first to see Kat for who she is, rather than her species. But their academic mentorship sparks an investigation when strange happenings interfere with their work—missing fey, dead earth sprites, and cursed sicknesses all hint that the land, supposed cleansed of magic of its own, is not as dormant as its mortal rulers would hope. While Kat stumbles into some common romantasy heroine characterization pitfalls, Delaney does a good job with the sensuality between her leads and conjures a gothic world with an immense and fascinating history. There's plenty here to sink one's teeth into.
