The Kiss of Deception Mary E. Pearson is about a young girl who is promised in marriage to a prince to keep the peace between the two lands. However, at the last minute, Princess Arabella aka Lia takes off! She wants no part of this at all!
This book has pretty good action. Lia is a fantastic character and the parts of the book that feature her were the best. The two primary male characters, Kaden and Rafe are interesting also. This is a good read, the first of the series. On to book 2! (Gerard's review, 12/6/16, 5 stars)
Karen's review 4/30/15, 5 stars:
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson is about ancient far-away lands in a world of fantasy kingdoms. The main character, Princess Arabella Celestine Idris Jezelia, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan a/k/a Lia, the one named in secret, is not your average princess! She is only 17 and quite a rebel who runs away on her wedding day because she does not want to marry someone who she never has seen or met just to be part of her father’s plan to form an alliance with another kingdom. The jolted prince is greatly insulted so seeks to find her along with her father’s bounty hunters and an assassin from the barbaric kingdom of Venda. She just wants to live a normal quiet life and be loved by someone for who she is.
This book has pretty good action. Lia is a fantastic character and the parts of the book that feature her were the best. The two primary male characters, Kaden and Rafe are interesting also. This is a good read, the first of the series. On to book 2! (Gerard's review, 12/6/16, 5 stars)
Karen's review 4/30/15, 5 stars:
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson is about ancient far-away lands in a world of fantasy kingdoms. The main character, Princess Arabella Celestine Idris Jezelia, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan a/k/a Lia, the one named in secret, is not your average princess! She is only 17 and quite a rebel who runs away on her wedding day because she does not want to marry someone who she never has seen or met just to be part of her father’s plan to form an alliance with another kingdom. The jolted prince is greatly insulted so seeks to find her along with her father’s bounty hunters and an assassin from the barbaric kingdom of Venda. She just wants to live a normal quiet life and be loved by someone for who she is.
This was a nice change of pace for me. I liked this book a lot because Lia is such a feisty
princess. The book has humor, action, mystery and clean romance.
The writes the story in first person by alternating chapters among the
perspectives of three different people: the princess, the assassin and
the prince who are all complex characters. The chapters are plainly titled when the prince or assassin
are speaking and the untitled chapters are when the princess is speaking.
In the beginning though, it is a bit confusing as to who Rafe and Kadin are—one
is the prince and one is the assassin, but it took me a while to figure out
which was which. What I thought turned out to be wrong when I read on a bit farther. On the inside the cover is a map of the various locations of
the different kingdoms which is helpful to the reader. This is the
first book in The Remnant Chronicles series and now I have to look for the second one--The Heart of Betrayal!
Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!
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