Their Union Is His Revenge.
Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king, Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him.
But her assassination attempt is thwarted and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court.
Except it isn’t the court she fears most — it’s Adrian. Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king — fierce, savage, merciless — chose her as consort.
The answer will shatter her world.
This book was a mess.
Readers who have stumbled upon my reviews before will know I’m not a big fan of descriptions. I don’t care too much for what a character looks like or what color the kitchen cabinets are. I wanna know the plot and the details pertaining to the plot.
This book, however, spent a lot of time describing the world around the characters and not as much about what was actually happening in the story. It felt as though the entire book was filled with lines such as “the sun was shining, the birds were singing, the sky was blue, and I was getting married to a vampire.”
Thanks, but no.
I also couldn’t get into the reason why Adrian and Isolde were so into each other. At one point in the story, it is made clear that their attraction to each other wasn’t due to any sort of magical interference. However, the writing felt exactly like a story where something is going on behind the scenes to make these two characters be obsessed with each other, such as a mating bond or some sort of magical spell over them. Even finishing the book, I still don’t think Isolde’s attraction and obsession with Adrian throughout this book made perfect sense.
There is, of course, more to this story than it first is saying, and I believe a lot of readers will immediately understand what exactly is going on here. I found it frustrating to read about a character who had no idea something so blatantly obvious was happening to her. Even the reveal, when the main character is finally caught up to what the readers have known this whole time, is unsatisfying, as the book leaves no room for her to reflect and think about this. She practically becomes a completely new character within the span of a sentence, understanding far more than even the book details, and deus ex machinas her way to the ending.
This book ends on a cliffhanger to entice readers to read a sequel, but I will not be picking it up.
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