3.5 

The Courting of Bristol Keats

By Mary E. Pearson
The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson digital book - Fable

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From New York Times bestselling author Mary E. Pearson comes a thrilling romantic fantasy full of dangerous fae, dark secrets, and addictive romance

After losing both their parents, Bristol Keats and her sisters struggle to stay afloat in their small, quiet town of Bowskeep. When Bristol begins to receive letters from an “aunt” she’s never heard of who promises she can help, she reluctantly agrees to meet—and discovers that everything she thought she knew about her family is a lie. Even her father might still be alive, not killed but kidnapped by terrifying creatures to a whole other realm—the one he is from.

Desperate to save her father and find the truth, Bristol journeys to a land of gods and fae and monsters. Pulled into a dangerous world of magic and intrigue, she makes a deadly bargain with the fae leader, Tyghan. But what she doesn't know is that he's the one who drove her parents to live a life on the run. And he is just as determined as she is to find her father—dead or alive.

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3.5
“It's a fine story, but didn't turn me on, which is supposed to be the fun part of smut! The author should have made this a closed door romance and leaned into the plot instead. This is good fantasy because I loved the interesting characters with great physical descriptions and backgrounds, and really creative approaches that I haven't seen in fantasy before (a power-leeching tick?). It's not GREAT fantasy because some important details got confused. For example, the book clearly establishes that the human world and the fae world run on different timelines, hence how someone can raise a family in the human world for 20+ years while only 6 months have passed in the fae world. Despite this, every time Bristol encounters a burrow (a mini portal to the human world), the timeline of the human world on the other side is aligned to the time passed in the fae world. The author does not explain why this is, which leads me to believe she forgot the times were supposed to be different 😳. This is awful smut because of the breach of *informed consent*. Tyghan, while handsome and powerful with all the trappings, seduces and sleeps with Bristol while withholding the knowledge that he is using her to hunt down her mother and father. Surely, had she known, she wouldn't have consented to sleeping with him. Anyone who's ever experienced a sexual partner withholding information to seduce them knows what an insane violation of trust and consent this is. I'm not saying this shouldn't have been in the story—it made it more interesting. It just made for bad smut. I was not giddy, enchanted, and excited as I like my smut to feel. I was icked, reading about another woman being manipulated for a man's sexual satisfaction under the guise of love and trust. Ew.”

About Mary E. Pearson

Mary E. Pearson is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Dance of Thieves duology, the Remnant Chronicles trilogy, the Jenna Fox Chronicles, and more books for young readers. The Courting of Bristol Keats is her debut novel for adults. She writes from her home in California.

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