You have been summoned to Sunstone Palace to compete in our search for the future Queen of Cahraman.
After years on the run, Adelaide thinks her lonely and dangerous life as a thief is finally over. But her world is upended when a witch steals her away to a faraway kingdom, to perform an impossible heist. If Adelaide fails, her newfound family would be sacrificed to a beast.
To complete her mission, she’s forced to assume the role of a noblewoman and enter a royal competition. The prize is the hand of the elusive Crown Prince. Elimination means certain death.
As the witch’s literal deadline approaches, Adelaide has one last gamble to save the day, and to escape to a new life with Cyrus, the handsome and mysterious fellow thief who stole her heart.
But everything falls apart when the prince finally reveals himself…
This book was a first insight of the world imagined by Lucie Tempest, where several retelling of famous tale take place. We meet Adelaide (or Ada), a thief whose life changed when a witch gave her a task: enter a contest with fifty other women to find the future Queen. However, her mission is not to become the new princess, but to find a golden lamp in the palace, where every door is guarded, and find it before she is eliminated.
What I like about this book, is the Aladdin retelling, because even if we can find some resemblance with the tale, the author changed some big parts. For example, Aladdin is not a boy, but a girl, and that’s changed the dynamic of the tale, and keep things interesting for the reader because we never know if Lucie Tempest is going to stay close to the tale or not.
Ada is also a good character. She’s loyal to her friends, and she has a good heart. For instance, she is like Robin Hood: stealing the rich to give to the poor. Lucie Tempest introduces us to a multiple of other characters, each one with its temper and background, and I became attached to four of them beside Ada.
The romance was also well thinking by the author because it stays in the background. Ada’s mission and the contest is the main part of the story, and the feeling between Ada and Cyrus (no I’m not gonna talk more about him, I prefer to let you meet him in the story) are slowed to grow.
The down points to the story are for me the fact that some actions are too quick to happen. For example, the friendship between Ada and two other contestants: they meet each other and two paragraphs after, it’s like they know each other forever.
Moreover it’s really easy to anticipate the end of the first book (I think that at the end of the first quarter of the book, I knew what was going to happen at the end) and that kills the fun.
Despite these, I’m looking forward to read the second book to know what’sgoing to happen between Ada and Cyrus, and if she’s going to fulfill her mission. I hope the author is going to surprise me !
What I like about this book, is the Aladdin retelling, because even if we can find some resemblance with the tale, the author changed some big parts. For example, Aladdin is not a boy, but a girl, and that’s changed the dynamic of the tale, and keep things interesting for the reader because we never know if Lucie Tempest is going to stay close to the tale or not.
Ada is also a good character. She’s loyal to her friends, and she has a good heart. For instance, she is like Robin Hood: stealing the rich to give to the poor. Lucie Tempest introduces us to a multiple of other characters, each one with its temper and background, and I became attached to four of them beside Ada.
The romance was also well thinking by the author because it stays in the background. Ada’s mission and the contest is the main part of the story, and the feeling between Ada and Cyrus (no I’m not gonna talk more about him, I prefer to let you meet him in the story) are slowed to grow.
The down points to the story are for me the fact that some actions are too quick to happen. For example, the friendship between Ada and two other contestants: they meet each other and two paragraphs after, it’s like they know each other forever.
Moreover it’s really easy to anticipate the end of the first book (I think that at the end of the first quarter of the book, I knew what was going to happen at the end) and that kills the fun.
Despite these, I’m looking forward to read the second book to know what’sgoing to happen between Ada and Cyrus, and if she’s going to fulfill her mission. I hope the author is going to surprise me !
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