ChelbieReads📚✨

🗡️🦉⛓️‍💥 AUDIOBOOK REVIEW! 🗡️🦉⛓️‍💥

📖: The Emperor’s Enemy by Jasmine Mas
🎧: Emma Wilder & Teddy Hamilton

The hype of this one got me a little, but I still enjoyed it! I listened on audio and then went back and highlighted parts in ebook format once my Libby loan was ready.

The audio was entertaining! I liked the narrators and hearing the MMC speak the “thou” and “thee” style of old language was a new experience for me. (Although it seemed a little messy & mixed with modern language.)

The plot itself was very light & kind of got lost on me until the very ending. The story was mostly focused on them deceiving one another & their attraction but I can foresee book two getting deeper into the backstory and logistics.

Zora was strong, determined and strategic. All of her actions made sense in the end but in the moment, I found myself thinking she was careless with her personal well-being, which prolonged my likeness for her a bit. That said, having finished, she had grown on me and I’m looking forward to more of her character and journey.

The MMC, was a man starved. Morally grey, obsessive and possessive. Very much a “touch her and unalive” man. Like Zora, he took a little getting used to as well. My view of him started off as mysterious, then questionably deranged, and lastly purely devout. The lengths he went to to get Zora were as unhealthy as they were impressive.

I’m intrigued enough to want to see where this story takes us in book two!

💭 Have you read this & what did you think? Hyped appropriately or over hyped?

(The character art belongs to the author & her artists 🎨)