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I'd like to thank the publisher Orbit and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book! Great writing, engaging story, I love anything this author writes! I gave it 5 stars

Lore is whatever she has to be, in order to survive. As the mortem-welding adoptive daughter of Dellaire's biggest poison-runners, she has to adapt. Infiltrating the royal court, and befriending/spying on the prince, is her most deadly role yet.

I received a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This story follows Lore - a young woman who doesn't truly fit in anywhere, but manages to ingratiate herself with her marks, spying and reporting back to her adoptive parents.
Lore is different from those around her - she's the only woman who can sense and manipulate mortem. The only other people with that ability is the male Presque Mort, and only after they have a brush with death. Whereas for Lore, it has always been a part of her, and it's getting stronger.

I really liked the world-building in this book. I thought the fact that death magic is leaking from the body of the dead goddess was highly original, and fascinating. It had me hooked, trying to work out what was true, and what was myth.
I liked how Lore and the Sun Prince Bastian have that instant connection, and teasing out the truth.

I really liked Gabriel, the innocent monk who is her ally/jailer/love interest. It was interesting to see his beliefs challenged, and kept you guessing to the end where his loyalties lay.

The not so good...
There were a few little niggles that I had as the book went on that were just enough to stop me being fully immersed throughout.
The king hired Lore to help raise the dead, to uncover how whole villages were dying; but mainly to spy on his son and give him the ammunition to disown/kill him. It sometimes felt like a heavy-handed way of getting Lore where she needed to be, and allow her to ally with Bastian instead.
Yes, having read the whole plot, it makes more sense, but it's still not very elegant.

I found the second half of the book quite slow.
Some of it might have been a lack of agency from the main character. Lore never feels like she's leading anything, and is always following orders from others. Although, that could genuinely be part of her character. She's spent her whole life following her mothers' orders, never questioning, she never fights for what she wants.

I thought the ending was somewhat anti-climatic.
It had the potential to be shocking, but it lost momentum, became very talky, and then it was over.

Overall, I enjoyed the world and the characters, and I'm keen to read the next book.

Not going to lie but this had so much potential in my opinion, just wish I could get into it. I dnfed it.

I really did enjoy this read; it did take me a few chapters to get into this story, but once I got the hang of the magic system and the story line I was hooked and couldn't stop.

I liked the magic system in this book and that the main character could sense death was an interesting twist on what otherwise is a romantic enemies-to-lovers, tragic kingdom plotline.

The male lead is grumpy and broody but also the complex situation both he and the female lead are faced with makes for a great development to the plot. The female lead is headstrong with great grit and determination.

In enjoyable read which I would recommend to Romantasy readers.

Listen, I know it’s my fault for not DNFing this book as soon as I realized I couldn’t care less about the story and the characters—note to future Raquel, stop wasting your time trying to finish books you’re not enjoying, thanks. But a few months ago I spent an Audible credit on this audiobook and I didn’t want it to be for nothing, so I decided to finish it.

This is the story of Lore, a young woman who works running poisons and has been trying to hide a secret since she was little: that she possesses Mortem, magic born from the dead. After years in the shadows, her secret comes to light and she is forced to infiltrate the palace under the guard of a Presque Mort monk to spy on the crown prince.

Basically the protagonist begins to discover information about the gods, as well as strange murders that are taking place in other towns, and while she’s in the palace she also spends time with the prince and the monk, developing feelings for them after a couple of weeks. And that’s it, that’s the story. Nothing that surprised me and characters that, in my opinion, completely lack chemistry.

I think that after trying to read two books by Hannah F. Whitten, whose other book (For the Wolf) I did DNF’d, it’s time to admit that her stories are not for me.

I really enjoyed this, I loved the magic system, the history, the characters everything just sucked me in and I was so compelled could literally not put this down and stayed up way late to finish it. I loved the character relationships and the friendships that are built in here and the pace kept me turning the pages, but this was almost a 5 star, if not for the love triangle at the end that I felt was unnecessary ( not a fan of love triangles ) but ended up a high 4 star and I cannot wait to continue.

Thank you so much to the publishers and netgalley for the e-arc.

One thing I love is a good fantasy I love a book that can make me forget what's going on in the world and go into an imaginative world where the impossible happens and you meet characters and creatures you would never meet for real and this book had ot all

This one is tough. I have soft DNF'd at about 200 pages in. I intend to go back to The Foxglove King at some point, but at the time of reading it was not intriguing me and so I decided to stop reading. I think it was a me issue, not the book- hence the 3* rating as I can see potential, however I'm not sure it will ever be a favourite for me,

This one was just okay for me.. I didn't feel engaged with the characters or plot like I'd hoped. I would still recommend it to other people to try out it as the writing style was good it just didn't suit my tastes.

Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy this book very much and was considering DNF it.

I think I went into it with too high expectations and ultimately let myself down.

It started with an interesting plot and character that I wanted to like but I couldn’t help but feel like I was simultaneously overwhelmed with what was happening and also feeling like not much was happening which was odd.

The magic started to confuse me but it’s still what I found most interesting about this story.

I really enjoyed this book, in particular the love triangle between Lore, Gab and Bastian. The adventure that they find themselves in was interesting and kept me guessing until the end. I am looking forward to reading the next installment to see what happens next

Thank you NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for giving me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

For me this book was ok, but nothing special. I felt it was your standard fantasy, and isn’t particularly memorable. The premise sounded incredible, however I felt the book fell short of this. The start of the book took me a while to get into, so much so that I began to question if I should DNF. Eventually, the plot did pick up, but still my attention swayed.
Regardless, the characters were likeable and the medium-pace of the plot felt perfect to the story. The plot was character driven, with strong character development, without the flaws of the character being the main focus. This is for readers that want a slow-burn & forbidden love romantasy, similar to the world of Shadow and Bone, with a love triangle and integrated politics.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

This has been hanging around on my TBR for a LOOOONG time so glad to finally get round to it. I liked the world-building - this idea of magic being linked to dead gods is fairly unique and the binary of life/death and light/dark is crying out for disruption. However, it read very YA to me, particularly the love triangle element. I'm hoping the second book will elaborate a little more on Lore's history and the concept of the cool women-only gang guarding the goddess.

Foxglove King is an imaginative, unique fantasy with great world-building.
The characters are well written, Lore is definitely my favourite, she seems like a relatively normal person when she is first introduced in the book, but as the book progresses we find out more and more, which I loved. Characters being fleshed out throughout the book and things being revealed as other characters find them out works so well and really makes you feel immersed in the story.

With the twists and turns, you never know what's going to happen (in the best way possible( and the book takes you on a ride through betrayals, deaths, mysteries, royal courts and politics.

I enjoyed the love-triangle aspect, which was written really well, with Lore being drawn to both male characters, bur now knowing why.
Sometimes love triangles can slip into something very trope heavy very quickly, which this didn't.

A high fantasy novel with gothic vibes perfect for fans of Caraval, Babel and Sarah J Maas.

I did DNF this book at 56% but I do plan to dive back into it at some point. There were good elements to the story but at the time I did lose interest

Having had this for a while, I thought I would get stuck in (I also have the second one!) I enjoyed this, but not as much I had hoped to. It didn't hook me in and make me desperate to read, however the more I read, the more I wanted to find out what happened. It was well written, with good characters and an interestinf storyline, I love the premise of necromancy and the author wrote this excitingly. I am looking forward to reading The Hemlock King soon.

This book was a real page turner.
It reminded me of Shadow and Bone in places.
Without spoilers, the central character can raise the dead and tries to escape a society where this could be exploited.
The plot is well paced and I didn't find myself wondering whether something was unrealistic within the world that had been built.

Whilst I admit, it took me a couple of attempts to read this once I got past myself, I found The Foxglove King to be a truly addicting tale that left me on the kind of cliffhanger that had me ripping my hair out in frustration.

The Foxglove King tells the tale of a young girls raise from cult escapee to the royal court and is filled with necromancy, courts and religion.