Bride
#1 Indie Next Pick!
A Hall of Fame LibraryReads pick!
One of People’s Best Books to Read in February
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 from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.
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.
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Readers say *Bride* by Ali Hazelwood is a charming paranormal romance featuring a rebellious vampire, engaging enemies-to-lovers tension, and a well-p...
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I love Ali Hazelwood. Especially her STEM romance books. They are everything I enjoy in a a romance book and check all of the boxes, even the ones I didn’t know I needed. And after finishing the last STEM romance I decided that I am going to read every single book that she writes. I love them that much. This was the first non-STEM one that I read, and I was a little bit nervous going in. I wasn’t sure what to expect. But I love paranormal romance and romantasy too.But I was hooked from the beginning, and this ended up being one of my favorite books I’ve read this year.
It was different than I expected. And it had some essential differences from the STEM romances as well. But if this is the direction her books are taking, I want more! The FMC is a rebellious stubborn vampire named Misery. And we get dropped into her story “in medias res”. And then the story progresses forward a bit, and then jumps back to fill us in. That can be a tricky narrative approach. And sometimes it just leaves us confused or uninvested. But Hazelwood does it well, and when the backstory was filled in bit by bit instead of thinking “I wish I’d known that earlier” I found myself going “ohhhhhh that makes sense now”. And there was a really well written a story at the middle of all this. A mystery even - don’t read many mystery books so you might disagree with my on that. You could have taken all the spice out of this book and the story that makes the foundation was still interesting and compelling. A missing friend mystery with a few twists and turns and unlikely alliances. Oh and werewolves. But then you sprink the spice across the top like delicious little werewolf sparkles, and it make this book a pure joy to read.
If you like slow burn, enemies to lovers, paranormal romance, found family, missing friend mystery, strong witty headstrong FMCs with agency, and werewolves. Like really like werewolves, then you’ll love this book. Personally I can’t wait to read more Ali Hazelwood and I hope she revisits some supernatural themes in future books!
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I love Ali Hazelwood. Especially her STEM romance books. They are everything I enjoy in a a romance book and check all of the boxes, even the ones I didn’t know I needed. And after finishing the last STEM romance I decided that I am going to read every single book that she writes. I love them that much. This was the first non-STEM one that I read, and I was a little bit nervous going in. I wasn’t sure what to expect. But I love paranormal romance and romantasy too.But I was hooked from the beginning, and this ended up being one of my favorite books I’ve read this year.
It was different than I expected. And it had some essential differences from the STEM romances as well. But if this is the direction her books are taking, I want more! The FMC is a rebellious stubborn vampire named Misery. And we get dropped into her story “in medias res”. And then the story progresses forward a bit, and then jumps back to fill us in. That can be a tricky narrative approach. And sometimes it just leaves us confused or uninvested. But Hazelwood does it well, and when the backstory was filled in bit by bit instead of thinking “I wish I’d known that earlier” I found myself going “ohhhhhh that makes sense now”. And there was a really well written a story at the middle of all this. A mystery even - don’t read many mystery books so you might disagree with my on that. You could have taken all the spice out of this book and the story that makes the foundation was still interesting and compelling. A missing friend mystery with a few twists and turns and unlikely alliances. Oh and werewolves. But then you sprink the spice across the top like delicious little werewolf sparkles, and it make this book a pure joy to read.
If you like slow burn, enemies to lovers, paranormal romance, found family, missing friend mystery, strong witty headstrong FMCs with agency, and werewolves. Like really like werewolves, then you’ll love this book. Personally I can’t wait to read more Ali Hazelwood and I hope she revisits some supernatural themes in future books!