📝 What is Bride about?:
In this gripping paranormal romance, Misery Lark, daughter of a powerful Vampyre councilman, enters a forced alliance with Alpha Werewolf Lowe Moreland to uphold a fragile peace. Amidst mistrust and danger, their reluctant partnership evolves into a deep and unexpected love, bound by personal motives that defy political alliances.
📚 Genre: Romantasy
🎧 Format: E-Book
💞 Feels: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This had the pace of a slow deliberate reveal for the main character, Misery, and the reader. Eventually the reader gets ahead of Misery (or maybe we were ahead of her all along) when we get glimpses of Lowe’s perspective in the chapter openers.
It was a nice break to have one POV, with a small look into what the love interest is thinking. I was coming off of reading House of Flame and Shadow 😵💫. We have to believe that when Lowe says he’s being honest with Misery, that he is. Even though I couldn’t be in his head for full chapters, I think he was still described fully (from Misery’s perspective, at least). And I’m fine with that, she is fully the main character, no pulling focus. This is her tale of self discovery, belonging, solving a mystery and broadening her world.
This was truly a fish out of water story, as a vampyre going from living with humans to living with werewolves. She’s more comfortable in human society, so she’s an asset to her new family, who she can teach and learn from. She’s truly becoming stronger and changing as the story goes.
When I was 60% through the book, I started plotting how I was going to restart and read at a slower pace. I happily read the book in one day, and couldn’t wait to start again. I don’t usually want to start the books I love right after…I give it a few days, months or years. Maybe this was a cozy read for me…though the description and genre gives me pause to say that. Oh well. 🤷🏾♀️
✅ Spinoff novella nomination:
Koen and Serena, we don’t know much about them beyond how important they are to the main characters of Bride. I could guess some blind date with a book descriptors. But not without spoilers, so I’m going to keep my guesses to myself.
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