Review ‘The Formidable King’ by Alyssa J. Montgomery

A little
while ago I read the second book in the Royal Affairs series ‘The Irredeemable Prince’. Although I didn’t love that book, I definitely enjoyed reading it. So
when I saw that I had this third book on my TBR list, I decided it was
definitely time for me to start reading this one.

In ‘The
Formidable King’ we meet King Gabriel. Gabriel has always been one who did
everything for his country. But when fate throws India Hamilton, the girl who
stole his heart and left him many years ago, on his path again he does and says
things he just couldn’t imagine he would. India has a lot of secrets and Gabriel
is determined to get his revenge on her leaving him.

Well,
where do I start with this one. For one this is a standalone novel, you don’t
need to have read the previous books. Secondly I really didn’t like the
beginning of this book. I felt like I missed something, and Gabriel was just an
insufferable and unkind man. It really took some effort from me to keep on
reading. And I don’t often find myself enjoying a book that I really didn’t
like in the beginning, but this one I definitely started to enjoy after the
first half.

The
beginning of this book felt rushed, there were a lot of assumptions from
Gabriel that I just didn’t understand and I wished that India would just tell
Gabriel to go away. I didn’t get there ‘chemistry’  at all. But thankfully, after the first view
chapters, I began to like Gabriel more and India became this strong woman who
had been through a lot. There were some thrilling and suspenseful moments and I
found myself wanting to know what was going to happen next. I definitely could
understand there romance from that moment on.

When the
ending of the book neared, I definitely thought there were some rushed moments
again but I didn’t mind it as much as in the beginning. To be honest, I don’t
think I’m going to read more books in this series but in the end I did enjoy
reading this one. Alyssa Montgomery definitely created an interesting and unique
‘world’. 

Alyssa
enjoys writing pacy, passionate contemporary romance novels and her favourites
involve some plot twists. She also writes medieval romance under the pen name
Alyssa James.

Alyssa still has a busy private practice where she works as a Speech-Language
Pathologist – mainly with children with developmental disorders, literacy
difficulties and autism. She has also been a professional pianist and worked
for Qantas Airways as an International Flight Attendant.

Alyssa lives with her husband and three children in New South Wales, Australia
on a five acre property. They have a menagerie of animals and also enjoy
occasional visits from deer, wallabies, echidna and the daily morning singing
of numerous varieties of native birds.

Spare time is fairly limited with three children, however dinner parties with
friends, gardening and playing tennis or saddling up the horses and going for a
trail ride, are favourite activities.


For more
information about Alyssa please visit her website. Or visit her on Twitter and Facebook.