The Black Lily
- By Juliette Cross
- Apr 5, 2017
- 2 min read
Release Date-27th March 2017
Fantasy Romance
Publisher-Entangled Publishing: Select Otherworld
Kindle Edition-300 Pages
All opinions are my own
may contain spoilers
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Three Stars
Cinderella like you’ve never seen before… With the threat of the vampire monarchy becoming stronger every day, the Black Lily must take drastic measures. As the leader of the underground resistance, Arabelle concocts the perfect idea to gain the attention of the Glass Tower. Her plan? Attend the vampire prince’s blood ball and kill him. Fortunately for Prince Marius, her assassination goes awry, and Arabelle flees, leaving behind only her dagger. Marius is desperate to find the woman whose kiss turned into attempted murder, hunting for the mysterious assassin he can’t push out of his mind. But what he uncovers could change the course of his life forever…
The Black Lily By Juliette Cross is my first book by this author. It's a kind of Vampire Twist on the whole cinderella story and seeing as I love fairy tales and am a sucker (sucker get it he he ) for vampires this seemed a win-win. We have a fairy tale world ruled by vampires, nobles and then the poor peasants Our Prince Mariel is a vampire and he's having a ball for all the nobility to attend to find his latest bleeder. Enter Arabelle AKA The Black Lily she's at the ball until midnight to entice the prince so she can drive a gold edged dagger through his vampire heart. Arabelle is part of the underground movement to stop vampire tyranny. fleeing the scene of the crime just after midnight. Arabelle thinks she's succeeded in her mission. Prince Marius wants to find the enchantress bearing a tattoo of a lily and proceeds to start a hunt across the kingdom for the mysterious woman. Now It took me a while to get into this book, this might have been because I was in a bit of a reading slump, or just plain I wasn't sure about it. anyway, something must have clicked for me as this changed for me around chapter seven and them a steamrolled through the rest. so in conclusion, fantastic original plotline, I don't think I've ever seen cinderella imagined with vampires, a great narrative and excellent world building. this was a fun read with great fleshed out characters my only issue was my inability to originally connect with the story this pulled it down slightly for me and my rating reflected this. saying that this is still a great read. I received a free e-copy of The Black Lily from NetGalley and this is my own honest opinion.
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