2023 fantasy romance, first of a series. Evie is wondering how to cope
without a job when she runs into a wounded man in the woods. She helps
him, only to discover that he is the Villain who's terrorising the
kingdom. But it turns out that he needs a PA…
Utmost fluff. Of course they fall in love with each other; of
course they deny it to themselves as well as to each other; of course
their own deep personal traumas will be brought to the fore and
resolved. (Well, some of them; this is only book one of a planned
trilogy.)
It's not a serious attempt at fantasy world-building either: everyone
here is basically a modern person in sensibility, and magic
arbitrarily fills the place of the bits of technology the author wants
while still allowing for kings and castles and monsters.
But if one can ignore all that, it's fun, very much in the anime
parody romance style with plenty of sudden events to bring out
people's true characters. Oh no, there's a traitor in the Villain's
castle! Oh no, the Beast Tamer he hired turns out to be incompetent!
Oh no, Evie's father has a magical degenerative disease! But they're
sooooo sweet together…
Know what you're getting into. This is not meant to provide you with
deep characters or subtle developments; it's meant to hit you in the
feels and then scrape you up afterwards. And it does; I'll be back for
book 2.