The Bridge Kingdom
A princess is trained from childhood as a weapon and married to an enemy king she is meant to destroy from inside his own palace. She is very good at the job, and the problem is that he is not what she was told. On the House's scale it rates 3 for spice (hot), 5 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Readers who want a marriage-of-convenience spy plot and a series that is finished.
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How it rates
- Author
- Danielle L. Jensen
- Series
- The Bridge Kingdom, book 1 of 4 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 3 out of 5, Hot3/5 · Hot
- Romance
- 5/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Ithicana, a kingdom of bridges between warring continents
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 354
On the spice rating Several explicit scenes, well spaced and used to mark the shifts in her loyalty. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, abusive father, war, betrayal.
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