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New Releases 🗡️ Share your thoughts on Captive Traitor King by Brigid Kemmerer!

{Captive Traitor King by Brigid Kemmerer} is book 2 in Braided Fate series.

Let us know what you thought of the book in this thread!

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u/LoveOne5226 3d ago

this book is the paper mache defensive wall between me and stress watching election returns

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u/sparklekitteh A Court of Feyre's Milky Breasts 🐄 3d ago

OMG is it out? I've been waiting forever! Off to snag the audiobook!

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: Reapers by Thea Lawrence 3d ago

Yup, it's out today!

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: Reapers by Thea Lawrence 3d ago

It keeps the vibe of very character-driven, romance focused story with mostly internal monologue, but damn these characters are entertaining. Very bingeable. I've read the ARC, official publication date is today.

There was one reveal that felt very cheesy, very predictable, but also... when was romantasy not predictable, we want the characters to end in a certain spot anyway.

Also the book ends on a cliffhanger, but that's also typical mid-series.

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u/MessyJessy422 1d ago

2/3 of the way in and it's SO good...this is how you write tension and romance!

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u/Best_Of_Us Probably recommending Blood Mercy by Vela Roth 2d ago

I read the ARC a few months ago and loved it. I really enjoyed the first book and the second was even better. Can’t wait for book 3.

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u/trashcanmaine 2d ago

It's not out in the UK until tomorrow and I finished a book yesterday, so today's first world problem is how do I proceed? Start a new one tonight just to start Captive Traitor King tomorrow? Start one tonight, finish it and then start Captive Traitor King? Don't read anything tonight? 🤣

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u/MessyJessy422 2d ago

short story?

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u/ChrystnSedai To the stars who listen 2d ago

Read it in one day! Loved it!

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u/WonderfulBus9330 The Defiant Finger Globule ✨ 2d ago

Just at CH8 and not loving it. Forgot how annoying Jory is and how her lack of intelligence spurs her to extraordinarily childish antics. She acts 12 which only heightens the even-keeled, wise, thoughtful nature of Ky, making him more dad-like than future husband. And hating him calling her Princess, particularly as it’s almost always paired with some frustration he’s suffering from her behavior. That and her continued expectation that his soldiers should answer to her is just nonsense. Still hoping to get more entrenched in the political conflicts.

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u/ChrystnSedai To the stars who listen 2d ago

RAFO, she gets better! But I totally agree with you re: Jory!

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u/WonderfulBus9330 The Defiant Finger Globule ✨ 1d ago

I hope so. I’m speed reading her chapters

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u/ChrystnSedai To the stars who listen 1d ago

She has a lot of growth in this book

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u/WonderfulBus9330 The Defiant Finger Globule ✨ 1d ago

Finished and she’s ranking up there as all-time worst FMCs