A Broken Promise: Freckled Fate Trilogy, Book 1

Kindle Customer

4.5 Outstanding debut!

"Ok first the reasons for the 4.5 rating. This book had really beautiful moments writing wise and most of the writing was really good. However, there are quite a few errors that I'd say are phrasing or wording. Normally I don't care about errors but the whole book is filled with them. It's not enough to ruin the book but it definitely was a little off-putting. I specifically thought more than once that maybe this book had been translated from another language. At the end it does say the author is from Ukraine. But honestly, it wasn't enough to put me off the whole story. I just feel it's worth mentioning. The second thing is the modern words that just 100% didn't fit the story. Sporty, STD, crayons, etc. Normally I'm not bothered by a few modern words or ideas and this is an alternate world but it's just jarring to be reading about a royal ball and then a "sporty" carriage pulls up. Third, I think that the overall world building could use a polish. I realized like halfway through that I don't even know if most of the people are human or not. Are destroyers human? Is the supporting cast human? I have no idea. In some places they had more technology. Just maybe some more backstory would have been good. I know that seems like a lot of negative, but really small potatoes in comparison to how much I actually loved this book. It's truly a dark fantasy and those are few and far in between. It's violent, and gritty, and brutal. There's humor, mystery, adventure, murder, personal growth, loss. It really checked all the boxes. Our main character feels real and relatable. And she's not an idiot who I wanted to throttle. I was rooting for her. And she seems to learn from her mistakes and bad choices and I see that becoming more prominent in the second book. There was really no spice in this book and I found it to be refreshing. Most "fantasy" books I pick up these days delve into erotica halfway through and I'm tired of it. I could tell this author put a lot of time into the overall story here. There's things you definitely don't see coming and even one of the things you knew was probably the case ended up being a whole lot worse than you could ever imagine and I was still surprised. This book manages to pull at your heart strings in a meaningful way. I found myself invested in a character who only had like 1 chapter. Nothing feels shallow or like a plot Device. Everything and everyone in this book is deliberate. You'll know what I mean if you read it. I think this has the potential to head into RH territory but something tells me it won't. There's a MMC to lust after of course. And something tells me that in a later book when the 2 of them have a spicy scene, it's going to be epic. If you love dark, violent fantasy with well written Characters who feel real this is the book for you! Dying for the second one. Oh, and it doesn't end on a cliffhanger really. More of a "hook." ["

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December 12, 2023 Verified Purchase

BB Rod

And I’m left speechless

"4⭐️ This book started really good but I did get bored from the 40% mark until around 75%, but then we get towards the end and this book turns into gold. Marvelous cliffhanger that just left you wanting the second book right now. It’s great! So far the FMC is really good. She a strong FMC but vulnerable at the same time. I cannot say too much about the MMC as we found out more about him towards the end but so far I like him as well. The story became very intriguing and certainly left you wanting to know more. ["

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July 24, 2025 Verified Purchase

MDL

Book 1

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The story was very interesting and captured my attention from the start. The destroyers are working for the Mad Queen. They want to rid the world of mages. Finn is a strong female character that has endured a lot, but through it all she is kind. Her friends have a great banter and you can't help but like them. I hope in the second book we get to know the general better. Book one ends in a cliffhanger. ["

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July 10, 2025 Verified Purchase

Sara

we will see

"This was a book that I hated to like… I didn’t love it by any means. But it intrigued me enough to finish and continue the series.. I didn’t care for the audio. She did an amazing voice for Priya and Gideon, but I honestly couldn’t stand her own voice, which sounds horrible. I’ll be continuing the series slowly to see if I want to continue. Hopefully the second book is better. It’s definitely a slow burn which I’m fine with, but they barely had any connection in the first book. ["

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January 29, 2026 Verified Purchase

Dualpicks

A step up in fantasy/romance

"This book has been a breath of fresh air in my fantasy romance reading I wanted but wasn't looking for This is basically a character origin story of the main woman character Popular books in this genre I've been reading tend to meander. I suppose I like Maas and Armentrout as much as the next reader though the contrivances and slowly advancing plots, fantasy characters cliches, excess hanging threads strikes as such a contrast to this characterisation happens through dialogue and action, there is very little expositing on thoughts and feelings, I found every character interesting and relevant It was simply artfully done how the author spends exactly as much time as necessary on any given element. chapter lengths seemed on-point (never had a sense they ran on too long) always in a way where my imagination can fill in the rest my favorite thing is the combo of fantasy elements, Priya was intriguing, fascinating and scary. I love the main character which seldom happens in these books for me perhaps most of all that the romantic relationship that seems set to form was not a central focus of the book It can feel really incongruous to have a main character with so much going on yet she's overly focused on some pretty and dangerous guy, the set up fits the stakes and I intuit I'm gonna buy into the enemies to lovers thing it looks like the author is setting up The character development, the world showing itself and the plot are all happening simultaneously, I seldom see it done this well Every time there isn't a map at the beginning of a fantasy novel, I feel like that's a good sign but this is one of the instances I found myself wanting to look the turns of the plot and the twist were mostly predictable and I found that I wasn't even paying much attention due to how engrossed I was Most of all the style of the story telling kept me turning pages This is the first in a series, There isn't quite enough here for this book to feel like one complete story on it's own. It ends on a low hanging clif, so to speak, I could understand someone wanting to wait till the next book is out to read this (I personally don't like to wait a long time between books I really like) I highly recommend this book to people who like the idea of the popular fantasy/romance novels out there but they want something where the craft of the writing is on a higher level I'm so excited to read the next book from this author ["

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July 7, 2023 Verified Purchase