A Deal with the Elf King [Dramatized Adaption] by Elise Kova

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death.

Three-thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella’s village to be their Human Queen.

To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead, she’s dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town’s only healer.

That is, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives… for her.

Everything Luella had thought she’d known about her life, and herself, was a lie. Taken to a land filled with wild magic, Luella is forced to be the new queen to a cold yet blisteringly handsome Elf King. Once there, she learns about a dying world that only she can save.

The magical land of Midscape pulls on one corner of her heart, her home and people tug on another… but what will truly break her is a passion she never wanted.

A Deal with the Elf King is a complete, *stand-alone* dramatized audiobook, inspired by the tales of Hades and Persephone, as well as Beauty and the Beast, with a “happily ever after” ending. It’s perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon-worthy couple.

A Deal with the Elf King

Awesome narration and a good story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚💜💙
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 😒🥺😀🙂🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Full Cast with Dramatized Narration

The heroine: Luella – she is a healer and has loved her best friend Luke since they were children. Though the love has changed now that she has grown up. In fact, she has been wanting to kiss him for a while now. When he comes into her shop on the morning where a human queen is to be chosen for the Elf King, she is happy to see him, even more so when he professes his love for her and wants to take her away. She knows she can’t go, with everything up in the air right now, and more people getting ill and dying from the weakness. Luke is a keeper who works in the temple, making sure that no humans accidentally go into the fade where the world of wild magic and the elves is separated from the human world. He is worried about war coming if a queen isn’t found. Though Luella refuses to go with him, Luke does give her their first kiss. Luella is happy but finds it odd that it isn’t quite what she had hoped for. She is even more surprised when Luke tells her parents that she has agreed to marry him. Especially since she did no such thing. She never planned on getting married, since she is married to her profession, and far to busy for a husband and children.

The Hero: Eldas, The Elf King – The king of kings, ruler of all mortals. His world is complex and there are tensions between the Fae and the Elves. There are also some factions that believe every human queen is weaker than the one before and want to do away with a human queen and instead get rid of the fade and conquer the human world. The king has a lot on his shoulders.

The Story: Luella finds out she is the one in her village with magic and will become the human queen. It seems that Luke had wanted to keep her for himself, so he gave her a necklace when she was young that hid her magic. She is immediately taken through the fade to Midscape, the world of the elves. She feels alone in that she is different from all the elves and is also different from all humans. The human queen is necessary since she has the nature magic that bridges the gap between the natural world and Midscape. The world was dying before she came, and her magic brings it back to life. Though she knows that her only duty is to be there and not many of the elves want her to do more than just exist, they want her to be quiet.

I liked the concept of this book, and the full cast narration was terrific. I read some reviews that thought the dramatizations were overdone, but I personally thought the voice actors did a great job and I really liked the voices of the two main character quite a lot. Though I did get a bit bored during some of the scenes as they were too drawn out with too much attention to details, that I just wanted to get on with the story. Though it wasn’t bad, I just would have liked some scenes to move on a bit faster.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in dramatized adaptation form including sound effects. Performed by Kelly Baskin, Rayner Gabriel, Elena Anderson, Robb Moreira, Gabriel Michael, Ryan Haugen, Debi Tinsley, Yasmin Tuazon, James Konicek, Matthew Bassett, Scott McCormick, Nanette Savard, Karen Novack, Samantha Cooper, Alysia Beltran, Holly Adams, Elias Khalil, Ken Jackson, David Zitney, Eric Messner, David Cui Cui, Drew Kopas, Lise Bruneau, Richard Rohan, Patrick Boylan, and Alejandro Ruiz.

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