Thanks to @penguinrandomhouse for providing me with a finished copy in exchange for an honest review
✩🐺🪢Review:
Hazelwood’s paranormal debut is addictive and all-consuming!
Bride follows Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman, who agrees to uphold a Vampyre-Werewolf alliance by marrying Alpha Lowe Moreland after discovering that her future husband may be linked to her missing friend.
It was really fun to see Hazelwood branch out into the paranormal romance genre! I enjoyed her world-building and thought the history surrounding Vampyres, Werewolf, and human relations was very digestible.
I love how Hazelwood incorporated the mystery of Serena’s disappearance into the storyline. The breadcrumbs sprinkled throughout paired with the novel’s paranormal elements kept me fully engaged and on my toes.
While “Bride” is quintessential Ali Hazelwood with women in STEM, a big male love interest, galaxy apparel, and palpable love for cats, I think that Misery as a female protagonist ultimately sets this book apart from her contemporary romance novels. I found myself laughing out loud at Misery’s sense of humor and really admired her strength and perseverance. Despite all she goes through having been cast out from Vampyre society, she still remains inherently kind and is fiercely protective of her found family.
Lowe and Misery’s development as a couple is well-paced and her slowest burning romance yet! It takes a while for the characters to give into their attraction to each other given that they are supposed to be mortal enemies, but once they do, Hazelwood delivers on the spice! I couldn’t get enough of the caretaking while injured and “that’s my wife” moments as well as the snippets of Lowe’s internal thoughts at the beginning of each chapter!
This book ends with the potential for a sequel and I hope she’ll move forward with it full steam ahead!
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i need the bride sequel expeditiously. like tomorrows great for me. i will clear my schedule to see unrepentant asshole koen get to be a mate to recently discovered werewolf incredibly reckless serena like pls
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I have noticed a trend in fandoms where the bitchy characters are preferred over the nice ones because: "at least they have a personality". Since when is hurling insults at people unprovoked synonymous with a personality? Is being kind, quiet and agreeable not a personality? I am confused.
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UK Vogue October 1989 💜💜💜💜💜
Model/Modèle : Claudia Schiffer
Luscious décolletage in a violet silk
evening dress, with a bodice of silk satin laced with satin ribbon mbroidered with flowers, and sumptuously wrapped in a matching satin stole deep sea-green lining. Satin by Taroni.
Silk crepe by Clericci Tessuto. broidery by Valentino. Scent: Valentino.
Photographed at Hôtel Meurice.
Décolleté pulpeux en soie violette robe de soirée, avec un corsage de satin de soie lacé d'un ruban de satin brodé de fleurs, et somptueusement enveloppé dans une étole de satin assortie doublée d'un vert d'eau profond. Satiné par Taroni. Crêpe de soie par Clericci Tessuto. broderie par Valentino. Parfum : Valentino. Photographié à l'Hôtel Meurice.
Stylist: Sarajane Hoare
Coiffure: Serena Radaelli
Makeup/Maquillage : Francesca Tolo
Photo Herb Ritts
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