Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

(Hodderscape, 2023)

Reviewed by Steven French

This is the first adult offering from YA author Kerri Maniscalco and by ‘adult’, I mean ‘ADULT XXX’ with episodes that are definitely NSFW! The story is constructed around two core protagonists: Miss Camilla Antonius, a talented painter who is petite and buxom, with ‘deep silver’ eyes; and Lord Synton, whose eyes are a ‘unique, lovely shade of emerald’ and who is lean but hard, in all the right places (if you know what I mean…and trust me, you will after just a few pages!), and is actually Prince Envy, one of the seven demon Princes of Hell. He is caught up in The Game, set by the chaos-loving King of the Unseelie fae. As well as some anagrams and a pretty obvious riddle, this involves successfully completing certain magical tasks, the first of which is to persuade Camilla to paint the Hexed Throne.

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