Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis
Thank you to Stephanie Burgis, Tor Publishing, and NetGalley for providing this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Commissions may be earned on links in this article.
Book Recap: After the events of Wooing the Witch Queen, we switch points of view to Queen Lorelei, the seductive fae queen with a tendency to annoy King Otto’s general, Gerard de Moireul. When Lorelei devises a plan to bring Gerard closer to her, it takes them further away from the mortal world and into a dangerous set of games.
Top Tropes/Themes:
✨ Magic
⚔️ Challenges
👑 Queen Who Rules Her Own Kingdom
Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (a couple open door scenes)
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.75 (3.75 stars)
Let’s Talk About It…
Enchanting the Fae Queen is the sequel to Wooing the Witch Queen making it the second book in the Queens of Villainy series. I read the first book while staying in a castle so my reading experience for the second book had a lot to live up to and, thankfully, it did not disappoint.
Spoilers Below for Wooing the Witch Queen (Book 1)
We begin right where the first book ended, with Queen Lorelei kidnapping the general of King Otto’s army using her fae magic. She sweeps him away and they end up together in the fae world. Given that General Gerard is a mortal, he must put his trust in Lorelei after they find themselves entered into the Tournament of Leaves, a fae challenge based competition that could have deadly consequences.
Personally, I love a good tournament within a book and this one was well done. Burgis leaned heavily on fae lore when writing the different tournament challenges which means magic, riddles, and bargains! This was a win, win, win in my opinion. Each stage of the tournament was high stakes and showed us a different side of Gerard and Lorelei’s relationship. The pacing was also well done where there was time between the challenges for the characters to grow closer together.
Overall, I really enjoyed this story and getting to know another queen of villainy a little bit better. Some things weren’t may favorite, such as the cheesy (in a good way) rainbow sparkles that Lorelei throws everywhere and the slightly awkward bit about Gerard’s (lack of) past partners, but those things were extremely minor compared to how much I enjoyed everything else.
Since this is the Queens of Villainy series, we did get to see plenty of all three queens, including more information about the main female character in the next book, the ice Queen Ailana. While Enchanting the Fae Queen will be on shelves January 23, 2026, fans of the series will be waiting until Winter of 2027 to get the loves story for Ailana of Nornne in Melting the Ice Queen.
