Heartless Hunter
By Kristen CiccarelliPublisher Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"A steamy game of cat and mouse between witch and witch-hunter, played out against a backdrop of opulence, secrets, and bloody history. I couldn't look away." - Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Champion of Fate
Enemies-to-lovers doesn't get more high stakes than a witch and a witch hunter falling in love in bestselling author Kristen Ciccarelli's latest romantic fantasy.
On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is.
Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch hunters off her scent and gain the intel she desperately needs by courting the handsome Gideon Sharpe - a notorious and unforgiving witch hunter loyal to the revolution - who she can't help but find herself falling for.
Gideon loathes the decadence and superficiality Rune represents, but when he learns the Crimson Moth has been using Rune’s merchant ships to smuggle renegade witches out of the republic, he inserts himself into her social circles by pretending to court her right back. He soon realizes that beneath her beauty and shallow façade, is someone fiercely intelligent and tender who feels like his perfect match. Except, what if she’s the very villain he’s been hunting?
Kristen Ciccarelli’s Heartless Hunter is the thrilling start to The Crimson Moth duology, a romantic fantasy series where the only thing more treacherous than being a witch...is falling in love.
“Enchanting and deeply romantic, Heartless Hunter drew me in with the first sentence and left me breathless by the last. A story that unfolds like a spell, and one that is destined to capture your heart.” - Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals
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“I loved this book so much- I flew through the last 100 pages totally enthralled, staying up way too late and waking up too early to finish. I will be reading the next book the second it’s released!”Sharanya
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“Um, did I somehow accidentally download a version of this book that’s completely different from everybody else’s?? To me, this was a VERY mediocre serving of mid-2000s YA, from the silly heroine & broody hero all the way down to the feckless, so-clichéd-I-saw-the-inside-of-my-skull love triangle. Like, what am I missing here?? The good: REALLY strong world-building. In fact my rating got as high as it did because of the setting. I loved the complexities that Ciccarelli introduced into the world, & especially the politics of that world. She really had us grappling with the nature of revolution & how oppression begets oppression. If I were rating this on world alone, it would easily clear 4 stars. Alas, everything else was…well, really terrible. Poor characterization: I was *told* Rune was clever, only to see her make the STUPIDEST choices known to humanity. (Like, why are you going out there without a wig so people don’t recognize you from your signature red-gold hair?!) Gideon was mildly more interesting bc he showed moments of actual cleverness, though the broodiness got more clichéd as the romance progressed. Characters aside, the writing was clumsy — lots of over-explaining, or awkward choices like having characters use slang like “Gee, thanks,” which threw me out of the story. The plot was SO clichéd & obvious that I guessed the main twist regarding Verity by the time I got to the halfway point. & do I even need to mention the way that abysmal love triangle ended? I already think your heroine is ridiculous — at LEAST make it so that she actually has to make a choice of boyfriends!!
Also, the more I think about it, the more problematic & actually kind of gross this romance feels. Rune should not have to *TEACH* Gideon that she is human through the power of her love or whatever. That’s actually disgusting. D I S G U S T I N G. Let’s not teach teenage readers that, please.”About Kristen Ciccarelli
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