Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Every year I dedicate myself to reading widely, in all sorts of genres. But the one genre I struggle to enjoy is fantasy. “My brain doesn’t work that way,” is my best explanation for why.

Then Ali Hazelwood, whose contemporary novels I enjoy very much, published a bestseller about a vampire marrying a werewolf. And I knew I’d found my latest read! I needed to see how an author so comfortable in the real world would handle a fantastical one.

Reader, I was a goner from the first chapter. I loved everything about this snarky heroine and the aloof, intractable wolf she was forced to marry. What a pair they were. The writing sparkles, and I enjoy the world she’s cooked up!

It made me happy to notice that she seems to be setting up a second book. I’ll be first in line!

More about the book:

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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