Book Review | Filthy Rich Fae #20booksofsummer2025

This book marks me reading double my goal for 20 books of summer!!

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Filthy Rich Fae
Geneva Lee

Cate Holloway knows the unspoken rule of New Orleans: avoid the powerful Gage crime family at all costs. Of course, that was before her brother got caught in their chaos. Now Cate has no choice but to confront the dark and forbidding prince of New Orleans himself and beg for her brother’s life.

But Lachlan Gage is as lethal as he is beautiful…and the only currency he’s interested in is her soul.

Because Lachlan isn’t just some ruthless criminal. He’s fae. And he has his own secret reasons for binding her to him.

Tricked and desperate, Cate is torn between humanity and the breathtaking Otherworld. A place filled with shadows and secrets, with members of each fae court plotting against her just as her captor’s motives for trapping her become more mysterious.

And if she can’t break this sinister bargain in the next thirty days, she’ll be bound to the inscrutable yet infuriatingly tempting fae prince and his deadly world…forever.

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Sometimes I see the cover of a book and know I just have to have it, and that’s exactly what happened with Filthy Rich Fae. I was in the mood for an easy-to-read book with a bit of romance, and I had a feeling that this would tick that box.

I kinda loved this, once I started reading I didn’t want to stop. If I’m honest, it doesn’t feel like the most memorable book, but I was engrossed while I was in it. The story follows Cate, a nurse, who makes a deal with a notorious crime boss to keep her brother away from the Gage crime family. Things go a little awry when she unwittingly bargains away her soul to Lachlan Gage, who happens to be a Fae prince.

The chemistry between Cate and Lachlan was great, it was trying to play off that will they/won’t they but, even though you always know they are going to, I wish it wasn’t so obvious so quickly. I do like it to be played out a little more, to make more of the tension and the grappling over whether she could be with someone like him. 

I quite liked the blending of the real world and the Otherworld, in that respect, because it did give Cate that reason to question whether she should be with Lachlan. It was also interesting that the Fae live between both, and that each prominent family has their own territory. I feel like that is perhaps going to be explored a little more in the next book…maybe. 

I’m looking forward to the next book to see what happens, although I think I’ll need to re-read this one again because I already can’t remember the ins and outs of the ending.