Ava has fallen through a portal into the Unseelie Kingdom, where Ava comes to find out is her true birth home; having been born in the Court of Sorrows. Torin follows her, and upon his arrival comes to find that she has sprouted horns. Even though Ava is from the Unseelie Kingdom, she doesn't exactly get a warm welcome from the Unseelie Queen, Mab, and her dark soldiers. They hunt down Ava & Torin, accusing Ava of being a traitor and helping the Seelie King. If they have any hope of returning to Faerie, it's by staying together and getting as close as possible... if you get my drift.

Just like Frost, I read this via Graphic Audio and I'm glad I did because I most likely would've DNF'd if I read the eBook via KU. I thought Frost was a fun ride, but Ambrosia ditched everything that worked in Frost and replaced it with stuff that just... didn't. Where Frost was like a trashy reality TV dating show competition, Ambrosia is a fight or flight through the forest. But the pacing was kind of jarring. One moment they're exploring the forest trying to figure out a way back to Faerie, and the next they're immediately captured by Mab's forces. They escape, run away, and rinse and repeat. The slow moments were slow, and there was no intermediary speed before they're on the run and captured again. It was sometimes hard to make sense of what was going on as it was like we just had a slow moment and all of a sudden we're ramped up and back in the dungeon. The other pacing ick for me was that we would switch perspectives in the middle of some action, so it was kind of jarring to be in the middle of something then switch POV's.

Speaking of being captured, why was it so easy for Torin to be caught?? He's supposed to be a fae king, you'd think he'd have some sort of tactical training or something. I get that his magic was gone with his throne being destroyed back in Faerie, but this man had no survival skills. It kinda felt like he didn't have that much fight in him either.

I also wasn't a fan of Shalini's chapters. I get that we needed to see what was going on in Faerie while Ava & Torin weren't there, but her chapters were info dumpy (at least the first few). As a human who was basically on vacation in the fae realm before Ava and Torin disappeared, I don't see how it's possible she would know some of the history that she did and explained to the reader. After the exposition-y chapters were out of the way, they were a little easier to digest as they focused more on the story and present day political climate of Faerie. But I still found Shalini annoying.

I did like the twist about Torin's curse and who cast it; throwing a wrench in the whole good Seelie kingdom vs evil Unseelie kingdom war we've got goin on. But I could smell Ava's identity a mile away. Even from the first book I had a clue as to where she might've come from, and lo and behold I was right.

Just like in Frost, I think a lot of the shortcomings of this book come from the fact that the author is self published. This book could do with another round or 2 of edits from an editor, and I think that could've smoothed out some of the pain points. I don't think these are bad stories, just lacking in execution. I probably won't read another book by these authors (unless their other stories get picked up by Graphic Audio and I need a quick read), unless they get picked up by a publisher and hopefully that will mean their works will be a little more fleshed out.