The Fount Box Set by Stephanie Fazio

 

Enter the world of mind-control and magically-enhanced weapons, where mortals and immortals will battle for the right to learn, love, and live in two worlds that would seek to drive them out.

The Prince’s Chosen

Addy is a farmer in upstate New York. Tol is the prince of a dying magical race. Both are trapped in lives they didn’t choose.

There is only one chance for them to get what they desperately need. For it to work, Tol and Addy must sacrifice the one thing they are both fighting to keep: their freedom.

The Forsaken’s Choice

Addy and Tol are in a race against forces that seek to tear them apart. With the Chosen people’s life-giving Source almost gone and the cruel Forsaken general closing in, Addy and Tol are running out of time. If they fail, they won’t be the only ones to bear the cost. Addy’s sister Olivia will be doomed to an eternity of misery.

The Chosen Union

What price is too great to save a life?

By offering up his life for another, Tol doomed his entire race.

Through an incredible feat of power and a magic only she can access, Olivia spared a friend and condemned herself.

As Addy watched her happiness and love bleed out on a sandy shore, her dreams turned to dust.

These books were certainly a trip! You start the opening scene thinking you know where the story is headed, and bam! You're somewhere completely different. I will admit that it took me a while to really get what the gist of the story was, but I did enjoy Ms. Fazio's writing style, so it wasn't a hardship to go on the journey with her.

I loved Tol and Addy's love story. It does, of course, have its ups and downs and struggles, but through it all, you could always feel the underlying thread that was holding them together. I enjoyed that this came as a whole set, because I do hate when a love story is broken up between books. And the nature of these cliffhangers was quite spectacular. I wasn't sure where we were heading when we found out that a pretty large assumption we were given to believe for the majority of the time, was indeed false. 

I also really enjoyed the relationship between Addy and Olivia. They seem like such stark opposites, but I loved the way their bond was portrayed. They are twins, but so different, yet they both appreciated each other in a way I found really beautiful. 

I received an ARC of these books and am voluntarily leaving a review.