Find Your Deadly Ever After With Brittany Johnson’s Romantasy!

It’s the start of a new month, and we already can’t wait for the book releases we have in store for November. Just a hint: we have a highly anticipated historical fiction sequel, multiple YA romances, and a swashbuckling adult romantasy!

For today, we’re focusing on a sapphic YA romantasy debut. Brittany Johnson’s Deadly Ever After tells the story of two dead princesses on a journey to find true love and get their lives back. Have we won you over yet? Here are three of our favorite things about Deadly Ever After!

Book Overview: Deadly Ever After

Content warnings: murder, graphic violence, death of loved ones, child abuse, verbal, emotional, and physical assault, poisoning, serious injuries, blood, weapons (Read at your discretion!)

Summary: Amala has spent her whole life trying to be the perfect princess: delicate, quiet, obedient. But when she’s murdered on the night of her wedding, her story is cut short before it begins. 

Kha’dasia has been told her whole life that she is too rough, too loud, too much. She’s no ordinary princess but a ruthless warrior on a quest to fulfill her late brother’s dying wish. Except she dies before reaching her destination.

When both girls wake up in a cursed forest, the gods offer them a second chance at life—if they can find true love’s kiss. But there’s a catch, the gods warn. While the right kiss will save you, the wrong kiss will kill you.

On their journey, the princesses must overcome challenges that force them to face the truth of their lives…and their deaths. And as Amala and Kha’dasia grow closer, they can’t help but wonder if true love has been standing right in front of them all along.

Strength In Different Forms

One of the main things we love about Deadly Ever After is how well our two main characters complement each other’s strengths. Amala and Kha’dasia must work together and make it through the cursed landscape of the dead if they want the chance to get their old lives back. Though they have a rough start, these princesses grow into their strengths and face their past traumas. Amala offers emotional and mental strength, while Kha’dasia brings physical strength and even teaches Amala how to fight and protect herself.

The Romance Buildup

Deadly Ever After will sweep you away with the romantic tension between Amala and Kha’dasia! Amala thinks that finding her way to her new husband Vincent can satisfy the condition of true love’s kiss. On the other hand, Kha’dasia hasn’t ever been in love. That is, until she grows closer to Amala. We absolutely loved reading about their growing attraction and affection, hidden in the stolen glances and injury inspections. Then when neither character could deny their feelings by the end? That’s the good stuff!

Shattering Reality

On a more serious note, Deadly Ever After addresses topics like child abuse on a verbal, emotional, and physical level. We see the effects of having grown up in a hostile and unloving environment in how Amala views and reacts to the world, her mistakes, and especially her father. It takes Kha’dasia and Mya, a divine being, to help Amala unlearn the things her father forced her to believe. She finally allows herself to feel the rage she rightfully deserves to feel, no longer internalizing her father’s insults and lies.

Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson goes on sale November 4th, and you can order a copy of it here!

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