Bride by Ali Hazelwood
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2
3.5/5
Synopsis:
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance.
Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...
Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….
Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.
Review no spoilers:
First things first, this book took me a while to really enjoy, I didn't really enjoy it until I reached about 30%
I had a rough time with this being set in modern day, I like discovering the world with the characters in a faraway land. But, after I made my peace with the timeline this story was based on I was able to enjoy it more.
I found myself ignoring e a lot of the characters’ details because it was too outrageous and weird. I ended up seeing the characters in a way that It was stripped away from the things the author gave them… Eventually I just saw them as plain and simple and ignored the rest.
It ended being a love story where the MMC was a wolf sometimes.
SPOILERS STARTING HERE
Lets get real here…
What is going on here, a Vampire girl is given away to humans and then forced to marry a werewolf. I love the imagination but it all seemed so crazy, its giving one direction fan fic were she was sold by her parents to harry styles. LOL
I felt betrayed into seeing how weak the vampires are, I guess in twilight they are overly romanticized because here I can see they are nothing and just super weak hahaha.
Why do wolves have green blood? that felt so strange, and the purple blood. I guess they are really trying to separate them but I feel that the blood emphasis wasn’t needed. We could’ve enjoyed the story just as much if their blood was red and that is ahaha.
It feels weird to see him turn wolf-ish after sex… I have to make it clear that this is my first book of this genre and I was freaked out by it. It was too anatomically true. I didnt need to know this much about knots…
I loved the connection Ana and Misery had, It felt healing for both of them and I appreciate some cute sisterly love in this book filled with chaos.
Serena being the whole reason this story exists is a bit of a stretch but i guess misery didn’t have anything else going on in her life to worry about and she just went to the extreme to find her only friend.
I do love how Lowe and Misery start caring for each other, how slowly they start opening up to the other and how the deep layers of fear start falling off because they are meant to be. i love how she could sense his blood and heart changes, Its a way of this talking without having to share words. Their level of intimacy is good, It shows a deep true love, a love against all odds, a love so strong that even them trying to break it off is not enough for it to die.
Their sex, ignoring the fact that he is a wolf, was good, I loved the spice level here, it had a good teasing section that had me gasping for air and hoping more would happen. It felt like how the characters did, by stopping abruptly and wanting them to go for more. I just wanted them to get it over with and be fully in love with each other. Lowe needed to get over this worries and insecurities… but when he did WOW, what a time!!! I can imagine that hurting a lot… that all im going to say about it.
The whole pack was great, even with the ones acting out, I like the idea of them being so close and so community based it truly felt cozy and heartwarming. Its nice seeing them take so much care of each other! It made me want to be a part of a family like that!
Aster, Miserys dad… WTF. why does most of the fantasy books I have read have an awful father willing to sell, kill and god knows what else, their daughters! ugh.
I didn’t not expect the ending, maybe I was too focus of the sex of it all that when it all happened i was SHOCKED. i don’t want to say to much because I want others to experience it but it was one of those endings you feel happy and satisfied everyone got what they deserved.
Finally, everyone was happy, everything was right and the world could keep moving since all of its pieces are in place.
Cheers to happy endings!
Favorite Quotes
“You’re not a problem, Misery. You’re a privilege.”
“You think, but you don’t know. You don’t know anything about what it’s like to find your other half, I would take anything she chose to give me—the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body—I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me.”
“Maybe you're not meant for me the way I'm meant for you, but I'm going to choose you anyway, over and over and over again.”
“My smell. Do I smell like…?”
“Mine.” It’s a rumble in his throat. “You smell like you’re mine, Misery.”
“Her presence soothes him more than a full-moon run.”
