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The Winter King (2014)

by C.L. Wilson(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0062018973 (ISBN13: 9780062018977)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon

series

Weathermages of Mystral

review 1: I really enjoyed the Winter King, I usually don't read fantasy, but this definitely surprised and delighted me. I really liked Khasmin, she's a very strong young woman that despite the lack of love she received growing up is still able to love the people around her. She definitely didn't fall into the TSTL category, she was a bit irrational at times, but quickly would come up with plans to get herself outta trouble. The Winter King himself is a tad crazy, which you'll totally see and understand as the story unfolds. Even though he's a nutter, he's still a good man that definitely can hold your attention.I thought the wold Wilson created was wonderful and creative, it basically reminded me of the middle ages an how the world was broken apart by different Kingdoms, with magi... morec being an every day occurrence. I did have trouble with the periodic veer from the storyline, it tried my patience a bit. Some of the scenes weren't really needed and just took away from the story. I would have liked more time spent with the couple together rather than being with side-characters, but I can understand why it was written like that. I can honestly say though, what happened towards the end of the book totally took me by surprise, I didn't expect it to end the way it did. So, I give major props for that. Even with these few hiccups, it's still a great first in the series and I'm looking forward to the second book. I'd definitely recommend this book, it's pretty long, but so is The Lord of the Rings.
review 2: I passed up on The Winter King a few times because of that cover, it's so cheesy, and I've never read anything by C.L. Wilson so how was I supposed to know how amazing her writing is. Anyways I saw quite a few reviews of The Winter King on blogs about how not to judge the book by it's cover which evidently I was guilty of doing and I am so glad I picked The Winter King up, all six hundred pages of it was just amazing.I was sucked into the story right from the beginning. Khamsin "Storm" is such an awesome character. She is the fourth princess in the Summerlea Kingdom but because her weather gift killed her mother when she was three her father the King hates her and has abused her physically and emotionally in the worst ways not even allowing her to be a part of the family to the point most of the kingdom has forgotten there ever was a fourth princess. You think she would be broken and yes she is but her strength is something fierce and when meeting Wynter the Ice King of Wintercraig I just knew she would be the perfect match for someone like him.Wynter, I slowly fell for him, we know he is kind but the world in which he lives in the other kingdoms fear him and which they should. Wynter's brother was killed by Khamsin's brother The Prince of Summerlea who also seduced Wynters future wife and took her with him anyways three years later Wynter has conquered Summerlea. The Ice Heart which has given him powers of an immortal god is consuming him and any part that makes him human and in order to solve that he wants one of the three Summerlea princesses to wed and produce an heir with one of them thinking that the love for his child will melt the Ice Heart within him what he doesn't know is that there is a fourth princess one who is just as strong and stubborn as him if not more.The chemistry between Khamsin and Wynter was intense but it took a long time for the two to confess each others feeling for the other since neither one trusted the other and because of that there were quite a bit of misunderstandings not to mention Khamsin is from an enemy kingdom so even a lot of the Wyntercraig people had a hard time trusting their queen which made it even that much worse for Khamsin and Wynter since the men Wynter trusted were also always putting doubts in his mind about her and where her loyalties may lay. The plot was very fast paced even with the six hundred pages. The world building was very well done I felt like I was in Khamsin's world seeing through her eyes the whole time and the characters every single one of them had many layers and depth to them. I can't wait for the next book in the series The Sea King to come out, we already got to meet the hero and heroine in The Winter King and I was already starting fall for the guy so can't wait to read more about him. less

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