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We open at the end of Tiddlywinks, so, all right then.  Audra is naked and annoyed, airing on Fox soon, and is given the news that her husband is about to get married.  Zadicus, her strangely haughty f buddy who hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife, is like when are we getting married? 

 

But she’s not in the mood.  She’s like the f my husband is getting married and quickly dresses to hunt him down.  Raiden’s been spelled to forget his life as her husband, so it was only a matter of time that he would have found a nice, normal woman in his exile to marry and drink mead with.

 

Not today, a^%hole, Audra says as she stops the wedding and has him hauled to the dungeon, to his confusion.  “I pay my taxes!” he tells her.   “That’s nice you pay your taxes, but I’m going to mess you up,” she answers.

 

In the dungeon, she asks him about himself, and he’s just kind of mad, so not all that forthcoming.  He’s finally coaxed into telling her he met his fiancée, Casilla, when he dropped his water bottle and she picked it up, then he got her pregnant, she lost the baby, and now they’re getting married.  I guess he really liked that water bottle. 

 

Since the memory killing spell is irreversible, the only chance Audra has for him to remember what he did to her before she kills him is by triggering memories.  So, that’s what she does, she reminds him of being a prince, then details their meet cute– she was Tiddlywinking Berron, her swordmaster, when Raiden walked up and was like, well, now you’re dirty, future wife, please stop Tiddlywinking that guy. 

 

Audra’s not having that, she gets all dressed up to put Raiden in his place at the engagement party for their arranged marriage uniting their kingdoms and he shows up and is all, you’re like silk.  Well, that was the wrong thing to say, she blows up some drinks a poor server is carrying in annoyed response to Raiden’s attempt at wooing.  Raiden goes to help the server clean up the mess, but Audra sticks up her nose and for some reason he’s still all into her. 

 

They go downstairs where her dad is a jerk and Zadicus is like, let’s talk, and she’s like, ehh, nah.  Raiden is all, let’s go get drunk and do dirty things in the cellar, and she’s like, ehh, nah.  Well, if you don’t come, I’ll have to Tiddlywink someone else.  Audra’s barely even listening as she wanders off to find her friends, which she does, and by god, Berron now has a black eye.  How!!  Raiden punched him to teach him to keep his hands off his goods.  This doesn’t warm Audra’s ehh heart, so she saunters down to the cellar and finds Raiden playing Tiddlywinks with a servant.  Which she doesn’t really care about until the servant laughs.  That can’t stand, so Audra removes the air from the servant’s lungs and almost kills her.  Raiden helps the servant then sends the girl on her way.  And he still interested in Audra, and I’m just like what is wrong with you?

 

Back to current time Raiden says, I’d never like you, and it’s like, yes, exactly.  But he keeps answering her questions because his fiancée is somewhere in the dungeons and Audra threatened to cut off her ring finger. 

 

So off Audra goes to get a dagger to torture the fiancée when Zadicus all, I’m not really comfortable with you torturing people, let’s Tiddlywink.  Audra’s all, oh, all right.  Tiddlywinks.

 

She mentions she hasn’t heard back from Berron for two weeks so they decide to go check on him – he’s the liaison to Raiden’s court, which might be a bit tricky.  Road trip!  Off they go, but at the first camp they’re attacked by some dumb things and Zadicus like, we should leave.  Which Audra’s like, okay, maybe, but let’s leave in the direction of saving my friend!

 

Seems Audra isn’t very popular, which is solidified when they’re attacked by a bunch of people, which eventually leads to Berron being speared.  Injured, Audra doesn’t want to give up, but, well, they might have killed Berron and I think she’s just about unconscious.  Back home they go!

 

Once home, Audra takes a bath and then visits Raiden, who’s all, you’re Tiddlywinking Zadicus!  And your face is messed up!  She’s like, my plan is working!  He’ll remember how much he sucks before I kill him, hurrah! 

 

Storytime!  She reminds Raiden about a naked party her dad had they all had to go to, but you only turn 700 once, so what can you do?  At the party Audra sees Zad and is all wow, he’s so sculpted, but so boring.  Zad’s all, Hi Audra, you like what you se… No, you’re boring, go do some old man things, she answers.  She then sees Raiden, who’s all, hey Silk, look at my chest! 

 

Both are half-naked so they go to a tavern, since that’s what you do?  And I’m confused if it’s a tavern in the castle or actually in the town?  Who knows, well, I would if listened to it again.  Audra’s cousin, Adran and his fiancé, Amelda are among the patrons who don’t seem surprised to see the two mostly naked, so maybe it is in the castle?

 

Amelda’s from Raiden’s Sun Kingdom, so Audra asks her how a game of Raiden Tiddlywinks is for her?  Raiden just rolls his eyes and shakes his head, Audra’s just so cute.

 

They go for a walk and talk about mermaids and Raiden says there are no mermen, and Audra and I are like, umm, so how are there any mermaids at all then?  Raiden gives a boy gold for a couple of cakes, which is nice since we now have to go back to the party where Audra’s dad assaults a woman because he’s a monster who has done a lot of bad stuff witnessed by Audra, who, again, is only nineteen.  Just to point out, Raiden is fifty, which I found refreshing instead of five-hundred, but, spoiler alert, Zad is at least six-hundred, sigh.  When they get impatient with Audra, it’s kind of like, go f yourself, her brain hasn’t even fully developed yet, you two are actually the ones who should help show her what a functioning adult is, oh, that’s too much because you just want to melodramatically thump your chests while whining “I exist!”? 

 

Audra’s done with half-naked-walking-around-the-village storytime and in current time goes back to the tavern, which apparently is in the village somewhere, and decides to visit with Casilla, Raiden’s fiancée, who’s being held in the basement.  A guard notes that she doesn’t act like a prisoner and it’s…weird. 

 

To prove what an odd prisoner she is, Casilla makes the outside-the-box choice to tell Audra she’s an a&^hole and her soldiers hate her.  Casilla technically falls under Audra’s queenship, which means Audra can do whatever she wants to her, especially since everyone in the Edges had been warned not to marry the memory-addled prince. 

 

The prisoner’s confused bravery to bait Audra results in her drink of choice at the tavern being updated from Island Tiddlywinks to her own pee.  With Audra’s help Casilla shotguns a full bucket of her own pee, Audra slinks to see Truin and complains about everything before going back to the castle to watch Raiden sleep.  Girl, you need a hobby, maybe latch hook? 

 

And now we’re back to Raiden storytime – Audra’s hanging out with her winged bear horse, maybe?  I get a little confused on the description, when Raiden slumps in to get to know her better.  They chat some more about the horror that’s been Audra’s life then Tiddlywinks, because talk of your mom being beaten by twenty-eight guards is…eh…romantic?  This is weird. 

 

Raiden marks her with his canines on her neck to make it easier to find where he parked her, then has to go home for…stuff?  Zad’s all he marked you!  I’m upset!  Then stomps off.  Audra’s busy being in love with a guy old enough to be her dad, but only once over, so that’s good!, but it does track with her that Raiden hadn’t heard that their vow ceremony had been moved up a month.  But he’s all yeah yeah, my parents meant to tell me but I was on a horse.  Which leads to some concerns about war time communications for the Sun Kingdom. 

 

Back to current times, Raiden’s awake and still a bit pissy about the situation, he doesn’t want Casilla hurt!  Blah blah, so Audra skips off to be scolded again by Zad, who also needs a hobby.  Maybe yodeling?

 

Zad pounds his chest and tells Audra she should have cut out Raiden’s tongue for being, well, Raiden.  Audra ignores him and goes to dinner where there’s news that there are gypsies.  Okay.  And a possible attack?  Someone wants to buy catapults?  I don’t know, there’s a war brewing because no one likes Audra, but she’s reluctant to commit to it because people will die.  What an a&%hole she is.  Klaude, having just finished Casilla’s etiquette course, interrupts the fish course to tell Audra she’s an a&^hole for not going back and freeing Berron.  Zad, gives a war cry and launches himself at the low-level guard for a slapfight.  Again, Audra = twenty-one-years-old, Zad = six-hundred-years-old-ish.  Maybe this is where you help diffuse a situation with skill and empathy?  Oh, no, sorry, please, throw your fish knife and pull his hair.

 

Audra tells Zad to go away, since she’s the adult in the relationship, but he ignores her only to brush her hair and tell her now he’s leaving.  Maybe it’s an OCD thing.  She’s bummed, but has an oh well, on with queening attitude that I appreciate. 
 

And we are back to storytime with Raiden – wedding edition.  Audra and Raiden vow lollipops and sunshine to each other and Audra’s all I’m in love!  Hello bluebirds and bunnies, life is so beautiful!  My wretched heart has started to heal, life will be chocolate croissants and rainbows and…oh, hi Zad.  Audra, can I talk to you?  Raiden tells Zad to f off, he owns Audra now, and Audra’s like, he does! 

 

Audra makes sure her rose colored glasses are firmly attached to her face as she, Raiden, and her father get into a carriage to start the honeymoon at a cabin in the middle of the woods, which seems…random?   Monster Pop is supposed to drop them off then collect them tomorrow since I guess he just really likes carriage rides in the middle of the day to nowhere.  Audra’s still drunk on life now being magical, puppies and candy canes, why is Raiden being pulled screaming from the carriage? 

 

Well, it’s so he’s not murdered.  Monster Pop is killed and Audra’s locked in the carriage to burn to death.  After breaking out of the carriage it turns out Raiden’s mom and dad are the ones doing the murdering, but not for long.  Zad’s pretty annoyed by all this attempted Audra murdering, and he has the power to melt someone’s brain, so goodbye parents.  I think a few of his friends are running around, too.  Audra is safe, but realizes love is for suckers.  You’re nineteen, maybe make better friends?  These guys are not exactly the best influences.

 

Back to current time and Raiden’s all derrrhhhh, and I think maybe he starts his crazy patient yelling again and Audra runs off.  To find she’s received two of Berron’s fingers.  That is definitely not very nice, so war it is!  Ummm…maybe think this throug…no, okay, here we go to Zad’s to tell him to join the Berron finger war!

 

Zad’s all, oh, hey, come into my business suite.  Do you need to fax anything?  Audra doesn’t so Zad opens her backpack and sees Berron’s finger.  And it’s war!  Ummmm…maybe think this…no, okay, let’s risk your armies because an installed regent is being hurt by a hostile kingdom.  Maybe there is a diplomatic route that…no, war war war! 

Audra leaves and is abruptly kidnapped with most of her guards murdered.  She quickly finds herself unable to contend with a pretty rock that takes her powers and she ends up in a cell next to Berron.  Two Sun Kingdom people, Corra and somebody, scar her mouth, I’m not really sure why since all they want is Raiden and for them to divorce.  Which was just kind of funny, you will release our king and sign these papers!  If they would have just said that from the start that might have helped but would have been a lot less dramatic.  They also tortured and killed a new guard, and it’s like, why?

 

Boom blam, here’s Zad and his friends!  They rescue Audra and Berron with Audra yelling to keep the captors alive!  Sid, that’s the other captor. 

Zad trots Audra back to his place for a spa night and Dace tells Audra not to play with Zad’s heart, and it’s like she’s twenty-one, you’re probably a thousand, give her a break.  But Zad shows up and scolds Dace.  So then Audra suggests some Tiddlywinks, and he’s like, no Tiddlywinks!  Then climbs into bed with her and Tiddlywinks. 

 

Then she leaves him sleeping, and rides home with Berron and Azelea, her guard.  Zad still won’t talk about his wife and she doesn’t have time for that sh*&, she has people to mess up.  Oh and there was a vanisher, I think the vanisher took her?   Pretty sure.

 

Audra says ring the murder bell, which chimes six times alerting the kingdom they are about to do some murdering.  Then we get internal storytime of how her Dad made her watch an execution and if she blinked he’d murder a child next.  Not sure why 6, that seems like a lot bells to try to count quickly, like was that four or seven? 

 

Audra drains Corra and Sid, making sure their souls never know peace, which seems a little extreme to me, but Audra doesn’t really do things halfway.  She then skips back to finish story time with Raiden.  But Raiden’s all, what happened to your face?  Omg, that’s terrible, now listen to MY storytime. 

 

He goes on to tell her that the plan was to infiltrate the Moon Court by being engaged to her which would allow the Sun Kingdom to murder her monster father.  And maybe her?  But definitely him!  Probably her!  But he thought she was a fascinating weirdo and bam, it’s love.  He couldn’t let his family know he liked his really pretty weirdo, so he tried to hide it and failed, leading his family to take over all of the murdering-her-dad plans.  Raiden had planned on going to the odd honeymoon cabin in the woods and tell her about their plan to murder her dad, then they would rule everything together!  But his family considered her a monster so they decided to mix it up and burn her alive.  That’s why they were jumped on the way to the odd cabin – because he wasn’t down with murdering her, so they drugged him and carried him off. When he woke up they broke the news that his parents were dead, oh and Audra was burned alive.  He rode off to find her, but…

 

He's quickly captured by Zad, which he allows to happen when he finds out Audra’s alive!  Raiden is hauled before Audra, who’s a little pissed, and he tries to plead his innocence, but she gives him a choice, draining or having to live like a poor person.  He really has to think about it, then chooses the poor life.  They give him some gook to forget his life and drop him off in The Edges. But he loves her!  He’d never hurt her!  Really, that ha ha ha, was just a misunderstanding, ha ha ha?

 

Back to current time Audra leaves Raiden and goes to dinner where the conversation includes the Sun Kingdom is marching to kill all of them, so they all decide let’s go to war INSTEAD OF JUST GIVING RAIDEN BACK TO THEM.  So, emmmm, maybe just give the dude back? Nope, she’s sentencing all her people and Zad and his odd friends to war so she can prance around in a cell with her husband.

 

She then gets into another Zadiscussion – you haven’t killed him yet!?? he whines.  She’s like, you never talk about your dead wife!  Then he says with this kiss we start anew, or some kooky Zadness because these two are a lot, then with hearts anew there’s more Tiddlywinks and it’s off to war! 

 

Which they start losing pretty quickly.  Umm, maybe give Raiden back to…no, okay.  Audra would help shield more of her people, but you know, this could go on for awhile.  Lots of people die, Zad unleashes a power that has Audra asking what the f was that, and he’s like, huh, what?  Look at that hippopatomus!  And sneaks off.

 

Everyone’s probably about to die on Audra’s side when Raiden rides up.  Hey Pudding, let’s go home, he tells her.  Audra’s like, ummm, no?  Ha ha ha, he says, I’ll catch you later.  And both sides begin to disband.  Then Zad is all Zad and mad at her for not having murdered her first love who didn’t want to hurt her.  He’s a petulant baby man as Audra tries to talk to him.  But now what’s going to happen since he’s still alive?  Huh, Audra?  Huh?

 

Zad stays his giant, old manbaby self until Audra hears his friends talking about him needing something, and Audra prances in and is like what’s going on with my manbaby?!  She then destroys a door to see a woman with her manbaby because he needs to feed.  Audra’s all use me!  And Zad’s like no, I can’t!  But he uses Audra like his personal blood sippy cup and they have very loud Tiddlywinks.

 

Raiden goes home to the Sun Kingdom, but misses Audra, and I don’t blame him.  His girlfriend, Eline is really bitchy and screaming he’s a failure and should have killed Audra!  You pus*&^!!  So that’s fun for him. 

 

Zad and Audra get the news that Casilla escaped, which annoys Audra.  Audra and Zad Tiddly so she stops being so annoyed, then go back to Zad’s house….and are greeted by his wife, Nova, previously presenting herself as Casilla.  Zad and Nova fight in a separate room as Audra has to put up with his annoying friends.  Eventually she makes her way to the roof to ponder her life’s choices only for Zad to approach her on and tell her she’ll be escorted home in the morning.  Aww, she was just piecing her heart together, Zad’s a douche.

 

She’s all, f this, tacks Wen and off she goes home by herself.  Well, and her deceased mom’s boyfriend, Kash, who stops with her and babbles on about she’s a half breed, he’s a real fairy, royals are idiots, blah blah blah, not cool you tortured Nova, she’s our bff.  And Zad’s a fairy, the bro squad are all fairies!  Actually, I’m not sure if he confirms Zad’s fairy status here, but come on, Audra, put something together.  And she’s like, okay, see you later.  And goes on her way.  I’m really not sure what he wanted from her, but okay.

 

She stops at a town and Sun Kingdom messengers are all, hi!  We can’t believe it’s you, this is weird, Raiden kidnapped Truin, he wants to trade her for you.  Okay, bye! 

 

Audra goes home, gets Van, and flies off to see what her numbnuck husband wants while Zad’s confused where she went, he thought she was still at his place waiting to be sent home.  Audra? He calls out walking around his trees.  Not so bright, that one.  The deceased mom’s boyfriend is all, I followed her for a history lesson and she was spotted flying to the Sun Kingdom.  Zad’s like, oh, well, huh.  Probably not great that she has no idea how f’d up Raiden and Nova’s plan was. Ah well, where’s my pipe!

 

At Raiden’s, Eline is pissy and Raiden’s all here’s my chest again, Audra!  She just wants to see Truin, but he won’t let her.  She’s in the dungeon, everyone here hates her, it’s fine, pina colada?  He fesses up that he didn’t get enough of the memory loss juice so he was originally confused for the first few days in the Edges.  Then he ran into Zad’s wife, Nova, who jumped from Zad’s place and everyone thought she was dead, but she was just in the poor people land.  Not sure how she got there, but all she wantd was to go back to Zad, so they hatched this plan.  And it worked!  How about a smoochie?

 

Audra’s all wtf and stunned at how dumb she is.  So nothing else to do but go to the orgy that night and flirt with Shirtless Rairai, because he’s really funny?, I don’t know why she’s entertaining him, but again, she’s only twenty-one.  She hears screaming and runs out to find Truin being assaulted by a group of men.  She helps her, they get healers, she tells Shirtless Rairai to f off, they’re going home.  He admits she’s right that this was his fault.  Oh, and Shirtless Rairai was mad to see Zad had marked her, which he wouldn’t have had to if there hadn’t been possibly the stupidest war ever.  Ever.

 

Back at Zad’s pad, Nova’s all, let’s do this! And he’s like, nah, she’s like omg, you’re linked with the queen monster!  Then Kash announces he read Audra or her witch has been injured in the Woods Shifter Times. 

 

Audra’s back in her castle and is gifted the men who hurt Truin from Shirtless Rairai, so she castrates them to death in the public square.  Zad shows up for his carrying Audra around duty and she whines that they can’t be together because the kingdom will suffer, and it’s like, huh?  You all Tiddlywink everything you see each other, I think the kingdom will be fine.  It’s too late to ignore the link, Zad tells her, then Tiddlywinks and she kicks him out.  Sure, that makes sense. 

 

Zad stomps home all butthurt and Nova agrees to the divorce, but he’s sorry about everything.  Dude, she FAKED HER DEATH to get away from you, I have no clue why you are apologizing. 

 

In the Moon Kingdom, Audra’s taken to pipe smoking to stop her craving for her really old man baby.  Raiden shows up and he and Audra try to Tiddlywink, but she has a panic attack, so Raiden decides it’s time for the Moon Kingdom to have a good, old-fashioned orgy, and it’s like why not, sure, since you all like to Tiddly 24/7.  And it’ll be in Audra’s castle, won’t that be fun?  She’s not thrilled, but is like, whatever, fine, I’m nice now.  Klaude tries to apologize for his meltdown before they got Berron back, and Audra tells him to sharpen his mind.  Klaude suddenly understands what he needs to do, I’m like, well, I’m glad someone does, that makes no sense to me.

 

On to the excuse for them all to Tiddlywink each other in costumes!  Zad and Nova show up, and he’s in his petulant baby man mode.  He’s mad at Audra for trying to Tiddlywink her husband, but she’s like that’s what it is, old man, I don’t want to, but we’re vowed, he needs kids, blah blah.  Dude knew his family was going to try to kill you, Audra, I think you have a strong argument against Tiddlying.  

 

Soon after Audra has another Zadiscussion Raiden attacks Zad and they tussle for a bit until Audra breaks it up for the sake of the kingdom!  She declares yes, they’re linked, but Zad is a former lover and she’s not Tiddlying that again.  Zad’s all, excuse me?  She wails again it’s for the good of the kingdom!  But not forever!  He’s all, you bring me here to kick me out again, then tells her, and I’m going to quote this because I think Zad is such a whiny f*ckwit, “Your heart is about as good as the existence of your soul  -- a rotten f*cking lie.” 

 

Run, Audra, run from that thing.  And stop all these nonsense high school sweetheart fights, get your s*&t together.

 

But wait, there’s more.  Zad then tells Raiden how to Tiddle Audra so he’ll be able to finish the job next time.  Again, Audra is TWENTY-ONE years old.  Brain not fully formed yet.  You, Douche McGee, are over six-hundred-years old.  Grow up.  Audra manages to blame herself, and I’m just shaking my head at all this nonsense.  You all have kingdoms to run!  Go do that! 

 

Audra’s cousin and his fiancée, Amelda, are witnesses to Zad’s gross behavior.  Audra and Azlea, her guard, head back to Audra’s room, but this is a Raiden party, so they have to see Raiden and Eline Tiddlywinking against a wall near Audra’s rooms.  There are seriously no adults in this book. 

 

The following morning, I think, or just some morning shortly after the party, Audra’s drinking tea and going through her paperwork when she sees the divorce request for Zad and Nova.  He’s still in town waiting for it to be finalized, so Audra hikes up her skirts and goes running.  No, Audra, please don’t, just…and she’s ignoring me. 

 

Audra tries to talk to him, but he’s busy being Zad so he doubles down by telling her she has a dark heart and he hopes to never see her again.  He’s so deeply unlikeable.  The most he does is carry her around because she has an undiagnosed sleeping disorder.

 

Truin and Audra are soon kidnapped, again, by her cousin’s fiancée, Amelda, the vanisher from earlier, and another fairy named Finn.  They need to drain Audra to open the way to the fairy kingdom since Audra’s dad drained her mom to close the way.  Okay, why not.  Oh and they need Truin to chant something, just…because?  So Audra’s almost dead by the time Zadhole saves her.

 

And she wakes up to find Zad’s all, it’s just so amazing you’re alive, we knew what Amelda would want to do to you when we found your dad’s journal, cool, huh?  And Audra’s all, you knew she wanted to drain me to open the way to fairyland and didn’t tell me?  He shrugs, and THAT IS THE END OF THAT CONVERSTATION.  It doesn’t come up again, he used Audra as bait and she almost died, and it’s just, yuppers, we did.  And again Zad leaves her.

 

A month later she and Raiden are preparing for Inkerbine, some kind of festival, probably an orgy, and going over their correspondence.  She’s sad when a letter isn’t from Zad and Raiden’s all, we need to talk about your linkage, that guy is a douche.  But there’s nothing to be done, and on they go King and Queen since Raiden refuses to divorce her.

 

Audra tells Kash she saw her mom and her young brothers when she almost died WHEN SHE WAS USED FOR BAIT, which is like, that was nice of you to tell him.  Audra and Raiden give a speech to the good people at Inkerdaine with the f*&kwit and his cronies in the audience.    Audra announces there will be no more fairy persecution!  And no more half-royals being tenured forever to the royal house, but you must get training!  And everyone cheers and sings god save the queen, and she then leaves to drink some wine.  

 

Zad pops up and is all hey…and I’m like GO AWAY, you horrible little man.  She has the sense to tell him to f off, but he jumps in the carriage and is all, it’s all fine, girlfriend.  And she tells him she loves him, he has to stay, and I’m thinking maybe these two drama queens deserve each other.  Seriously, all the crap he said, horrible, horrible things, and he used her for bait, but she doesn’t care, she just wants to be with him and it’s just, blech.

 

Three months later he’s still happy with her.  What a douche.

 

 

End Notes:

 

I’m really conflicted on this one.  I like non-Zad Audra, but I don’t like Zad-obsessed-it’s-all-my-fault Audra.  It’s confusing.  The book starts with her aware that he hasn’t cared for any other female since his wife died, but he spends the entire book yelling at her for not being more open to him.  It’s like, what?  She’s a twenty-one-year-old orphan who was nearly murdered by the family of the love of her life, maybe cut her some slack if she’s a little slow to commit.  Oh, and her dad had some kind of mental decline that caused him to be a psychopath who inflicted her with deep mental distress.  But oh, okay, she hurt your feelers by hesitating to marry you under your constant whining that you need more power.

 

The other conflict is that while what happens is interesting – Raiden tried to kill her, comes back, wants to stay married – but when you actually look at the events, it seems like the kingdoms are being run by Muppet babies.  Big points that there’s not some big bad, well, in this one, there is in the sequel, but so much of what happens doesn’t actually need to happen.  Berron is kidnapped by the Sun Kingdom because it’s such a mess, then Audra is kidnapped and tossed in a cell next to Berron because she won’t send Shirtless RaiRai back.  Then she kills her kidnappers and the Sun Kingdom marches on the Moon Kingdom so they can get Shirtless RaiRai back, who is the king of both kingdoms unless Audra kills him, which she won’t, but Shirtless RaiRai stops the war because Audra’s just so damned alluring, and it’s like, what?  So all of that was for nothing, right?

 

If Audra could spell Shirtless RaiRai to forget his life, could she have maybe given him a truth potion so she knew what really happened when his people tried to kill her in the marriage carriage? 

 

I want to find her mistakes endearing, but there’s just so much action for absolutely no reason.  And all of it annoys Zad.  Because he’s a doucher.  But he’s Audra’s mate so we all have to keep putting up with him. 

 

Also major points that Audra doesn’t have a unique, world-saving power.  She has some magic, but she stands on her wits, kindof, okay she generally makes bad choices and shouldn’t have participated in the war, but at least she’s not a demi-goddess.  So thank you, Ella.  But the cover is terrible, the book is way more interesting than that.