Rumpelstilzchen (GriMM Tales)

Here's Sam Northman's "Rumpelstilzchen." It's a novel the new multi-author series, The GriMM Tales.

["Rumpelstilzchen, ruthless enforcer for the Queen and powerful shadow geist, is missing an important part of himself—his Heart.

Enslaved by the Evil Queen through black magick, Rumpelstilzchen’s only shot at freedom is to find his Heart—and claim it. What he doesn’t expect is for it to beat inside the beguiling son of a miller.

Boy is imprisoned in the palace cells for his family’s failure to pay the royal tithe, and unless he can deliver on his father’s impossible promise and spin a sack of straw into gold, he will die at sunrise. Awaiting his fate, Boy thought his biggest problem would be the Queen coming after his head, but when her Shadow comes for his heart instead, he finds himself caught in a lethal attraction.

Having expected to simply carve his Heart from the prisoner’s chest, Rumpelstilzchen’s plans are thwarted when his shadow magick wraps protectively around the sun-kissed skin of the beautiful young man.

Can Rumpelstilzchen find a way to break free of the black magick, claim his Heart, and keep his precious human alive?"]

Talk about instantly smitten and insanely taken. They were both (Rumple more so than Boy) immediately fascinated, obsessed, in love. Instincts taking over logic. Protective to a point of self-destructive. Love blinding purpose. It was glorious. 

This one was another I wasn't so sure about at first, but I was obsessed from the very beginning. It was deep and self-reflective and beautiful and romantic to a point in where you summon strawberries (steal) from the (evil) Queen herself.

I'm excited that there's only one book left in this series, but at the same time, I really, really, really enjoyed this series. 

Trigger Warnings: abusive relationship (historic, off-page, neglect and emotional), anxiety, assault (on-page, not between MCs), blood, bullying (not between MCs), child death (historic, off-page), death (multiple, on-page), demons, depression, famine, fire, gore, imprisonment, murder, poisoning, secret-keeping, slavery, and more.

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