Enchantra by Kaylie Smith

Welcome to Enchantra. There’s only one rule: Never, ever trust your heart.

When Genevieve Grimm’s mother is killed, Genevieve wants answers nobody can give… until she receives an invitation to Enchantra, a cursed palace filled with temptations and illusions.

Arrogant and dangerously handsome, Rowin Silver meets her at the door and refuses to let her inside. But Genevieve finds her own way in… And soon realizes her mistake.

Enchantra is a twisted labyrinth of marble and thorns, where Rowin’s family are trapped forever in a deadly game. Now, Genevieve must win or die.

Rowin offers her a deal. They can compete together… if they convince everyone watching that they’re desperately in love.

Genevieve knows she can’t trust Rowin, but she’ll do whatever it takes to survive. As they hunt and hide together, Genevieve tries to ignore the desire burning between them. She absolutely cannot fall for this man. Cannot forget that she’s only pretending to be in love.

After all, it was Rowin who taught her Enchantra’s first rule… Never, ever trust your heart.

My Review

Genevieve wasn’t trained like her sister, and it took her a while to realize her family has issues, and she doesn’t like to be alone, but she does have magic, which is just used to hide. Ophelia has taken over the family legacy and embraces the title of necromancer. Genevive is naive but trying to learn. She is looking for an answer that has led her to Italy.

She used her feline curvy wiles to help her in the new area, her demon ex-boyfriend is what haunts her, and encouraged to chase the letter and the invitation to Enchantra.

This book reads much more historically and ghostly than the other; it is more subtle but less enthralling. Her powers are very cool as we get the display them. Her welcome isn’t warm in Enchantra, but she wants an audience with Barrington. His voice is so deep. Once inside, it’s like she is exploring a haunted mansion. Omg I love Rowington’s voice and the umbra.

She finally found the man she was looking for, but also a whole host of questions. A house full of wraiths and a night she can’t leave, this gets spooky. Add in a death game of the HUNT. We do get the details of this spooky game, and in the worst possible way. Oh, this gets interesting with a fake relationship/marriage of convince to a wraith and one of the Silver Sons at that. All this to live through the game.

Oh, Knox gets her anyway, and then we get Mirror Portal and a unique warmer setting. I love the descriptions. With the banner with Rowin, they have a whole enemies-to-lovers going on. He is something grumpy, ghostly, and of course, the last thing she wants.

The whole family of the Silvers is like a dramatic soap opera that never ends. Her materialistic sensibility is very drama queen-like like which is honestly quite annoying. There are a lot of descriptions and this story is slow-moving, but the enemies-to-lovers storyline is quite though. It carries from online bed to marriage of convince. The important part of the storyline is covered by all the details.

Genevieve is looking for acceptance, family, and individuals like her powers and family.  But are the games really the place for this? Geneve has no survival skills and is constantly making the wrong choice despite her husband’s insistence. She is annoying as an MC.

I’m not as much in love with this story as I was with Phantasma. But we’ll see how it ends. This gets steamy as they have some shadow play with the wraith. But it took a while and had the help of some drinks.

Admit the life and death of the games. This does get steamy, but it is a very slow burn and angsty. When they do get steamy, they do finally move into torture and oral play. But it is smoking hot when the shadows get involved.

More games, more family drama lead to a trip to hell and a visit to the other side of the games. Genevieve and Rowin act more romantically, but will it last?

As if this can’t get twisted enough, at the end it gets knotted like a sailor’s rope. The ending of this is just as confusing as the start. Genevieve and Rowin have come a long way, and we finally get a happy romance with them, but it is still sooo twisted, and she is still so needy.

I enjoyed the cast of characters and the basic premise of the storyline; it was interesting and twisted, but not as good as Phantasma.

I didn’t enjoy the fmc and her constant high-maintenance attitude. Rowin and his family were delightful and charming and different, but it didn’t make up for the fact that the main character was absolutely no heroine. She wasn’t damaged or anything other than a brat. Unfortunately, it wasn’t endearing to me.

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