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Bride (Bride, #1)

Ali Hazelwood

Start date: February 1, 2024

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Feb 22, 2024 Jenn rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, 3-star-reads, read-in-2024, adult-fiction, paranormal-supernatural, vampires, shapeshifting-madness

I'm a sucker for a good vampire/werewolf story and I was anxiously awaiting this one to come out. But alas, I did not love it.

Ancient rivalries between species and a marriage to unite them is pretty much the basis of this story. Tensions have always been high between vampire, werewolves and the humans. In order to save the vampires from their dwindling numbers, they make a marriage deal with the wolves. Of course, there's more to the deal then anyone knows.

I think my main issue with this book w ...more

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Oct 12, 2024 Trisha rated it liked it

Shelves: goodreadschoice2024, aardvark-read

Sweet romance, interesting plot. I liked learning about the weres and vampires and how they lived along with the humans. I appreciated the quick world building and the small but interesting cast of characters. I started with a physical book but moved to the audio book the narrator was wonderful.

But this one is a bit spicy for me - definitely not closed door romance so if that's your jam, I think you'll love this one! ...more

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Jun 07, 2024 Susan rated it it was amazing

I LOVED this book so much. I was needing another 5 star book and after I finished Gothikana I didn't think I would find another 5 star for awhile but I can't stop talking about this book to anyone who will listen to me ramble about it.

I loved Misery and Lowe right away. She is the Vampyre and he is the Were and they have been forced to marry. Misery has spent her life being given away as collateral by her father. First as a child to the human world and then by marrying into the Were territory wh ...more

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Mar 03, 2024 Tbirdplanstoread rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own-paper-back, 2024-03-mar, rec-d-in-2024

I suppose it's a good thing I'm not new to shifter smut bc that's definitely what this became lol. On the other hand, I was intrigued by the story of Misery's missing friend and what happened and the lineage of another character, so I'm glad it did have more story than smut. I don't tend to rate smut very highly, so....also, Misery's dad is a douchbag. Just saying. ...more

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Apr 04, 2024 Shruti morethanmylupus rated it liked it

I'm going to preface this review by saying that the Omegaverse isn't a space that I'm particularly familiar with so please read this review as coming from a newbie.

I liked this one overall. It was basically a Romeo & Juliet retelling with vampyres and werewolves. The world-building was pretty limited and a number of times it felt like info was slotted in later to explain something that happened. I assumed this was because Hazelwood doesn't usually write paranormal books, but maybe she has exten ...more

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Feb 19, 2024 Becky rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, challenge-reads-2024, read-in-2024

I loved this book SO MUCH! Which kind of surprised me, because I enjoyed, but wasn't over the moon for, other books by this author. There was nothing revolutionary about it. Werewolf/vampire pairings, a heroine who never fits in with her own people but finds a home with the enemy, a hero with a dangerous secret, it's all familiar ground. But the detail keeps it from feeling stale. The biological differences between the species and the meaning of The Aster. The way they learned to trust each othe ...more

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Jun 24, 2024 Tanya Patrice rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook, paranormal

I devoured this book in 2 days - my first by Hazelwood. This vampyre - werewolf book gave me everything, a quirky vampire with trust issues (rightly so), an alpha werewolf with trust issues, species that don't get along and a tense, drama filled standoff. ...more

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May 17, 2024 Shan ~A~ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: family, animals, humorous, siblings, contemporary, romance, audio, crime, erotic, millionaire-billionaire

Misery Lark & Lowe Moreland

I'm a huge fan of Ali Hazelwood. I haven't read anything by her yet, that I've disliked, and this is no exception. As far as I know, the author hasn't written in this genre before, but maybe I'm wrong because she seemed like she knew what she was doing.

It's always interesting to get an individual's take on supernatural communities and this one was a bit different from the ones that usually catch my attention. Here we have vampyres, shifters, and humans that are similar Misery Lark & Lowe Moreland

I'm a huge fan of Ali Hazelwood. I haven't read anything by her yet, that I've disliked, and this is no exception. As far as I know, the author hasn't written in this genre before, but maybe I'm wrong because she seemed like she knew what she was doing.

It's always interesting to get an individual's take on supernatural communities and this one was a bit different from the ones that usually catch my attention. Here we have vampyres, shifters, and humans that are similar in appearance, but different biologically since they can't reproduce across species. The species are usually at odds, so they've found ways to attempt to keep the peace.

This time around Misery is being married off to Lowe in the midst of a deal between the vampyre's and the shifters. She doesn't have an easy time of it in his territory since no one trusts her. And not long after being there someone attacks her. Now she has a husband who doesn't want her and she's living amongst people who would have no problem seeing her dead.

Things are not always what they seem. She soon has the opportunity to show people that she's more than what their misconceptions and experience with vampyres in the past have taught them. She also realizes that what she thought was true when it came to the people in her life may not be true at all.

I really like Misery and how determined she was to find her friend at all costs, but the reason I didn't give this a higher rating, even though I enjoyed it, is because there was no mystery. Everything that was revealed I had already guessed at, so by the time we got to the end it felt anticlimactic and I didn't like that she chose to bury her head in the sand when it came to the punishment that was going to be given. After everything she and the people she cared about went she should have been enough of a badass to say what that punishment should be.

We were left with a HFN ending for Misery & Lowe and a hint of more to come with other characters. I do wish we had gotten more of an epilogue because I would really like to know if some of the other things they thought may have been wrong. ...more

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