The Price For Peace - W.J. May

The Price For Peace

By W.J. May

  • Release Date: 2019-11-01
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
Score: 4
4
From 1,203 Ratings

Description

How do you keep fighting when you've already been claimed?

When sixteen-year-old Elise is ripped from her home and taken to the royal palace as a permanent 'guest', she thinks her life is over.

Little does she know it has only just begun…

After befriending a group of other captives, including the headstrong Will, Elise finds herself swept away to a world she never knew existed—polished, sculpted, and refined until she can hardly recognize her own reflection. She should be happy to have escaped the poverty of her former life. But she knows a dark truth.

The palace is a dream on the surface, but a nightmare underneath.

With a dwindling population, the royals have imprisoned the teenagers to marry and breed. Only seven days remain of freedom before they will be selected by a courtier and forever claimed.

Danger lurks around every corner. The only chance of escape is death.

But when the day of the claiming finally arrives…the world will never be the same.

Royal Factions

The Price for Peace – Book 1

The Cost for Surviving – Book 2

The Punishment for Deception – Book 3

Faking Perfection – Book 4

The Most Cherished – Book 5

The Strength to Endure – Book 6

Reviews

  • Good

    5
    By macco 134
    The book is very good to read
  • The Price of Peace

    4
    By BellaOfTheShire
    In a world fallen back into feudal ways, Elise has no choice when royal guards come to take her to the palace. Everyone knew the nobles chose the most accomplished teenagers from throughout the realm to infuse new blood into the palace. Somehow she thought living so far in the outreaches of the kingdom would keep her safe. Now that she knows different, she begins to learn even more about the inhabitants of the palace and the other “guests” who have joined her in her journey. While the story intrigues me and I have hopes for an unexpectedly brighter ending to their stories, I am wary of continuing this series. I fear the depravities that were hinted at in this volume might be elaborated on in the next. A couple of the characters may have worked their way into my heart and their future looks terrifying as it stands in the last chapter.
  • Worthwhile Reading

    5
    By Bonnie Prancer
    This contains a surprising amount of good reading.
  • Great

    5
    By Julia Davidjane
    Let’s read it
  • Best

    5
    By Dannahlynnellis
    The best one I have read in a while. I loved it. I’m even going to buy the next one.
  • The Price for Peace by W.J. may

    3
    By SilberHawk
    Interesting. If you liked The Hunger Games or the Divergent series you might like this. My only criticism is that there was very little in the way of action. The entire book felt like it was giving the background for the rest of the story to come in later books.
  • Very engaging

    5
    By nonnie55555
    Character developing. Kept reading and page turning. Loved the detail. K
  • Easy!

    4
    By darealkk
    Good plot, OK writing. Easy read!
  • Captivating

    5
    By mythreader3
    I read it from start to finish in one sitting. Very unique but a lot of unanswered questions.
  • Unoriginal

    2
    By eirasaenzc00001
    Breezed through this book! Quite an easy (and short) read. However…. I just could not shake the feeling of having already read this exact story. This book had so many similarities to Wither by Lauren DeStefano and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. From similar names, to similar supporting characters, similar storyline, etc. I unfortunately read the reviews of the next few books that spoiled a major part of the series, so I might not continue reading.