Blog Tour Stop: Ali Hazelwood's BRIDE.

Hi and welcome to my blog tour stop for Bride by Ali Hazelwood! I adored this one. Pure fun--marriage of convenience in a sexy PNR kinda way. 

​A big thanks to the publisher for the promotional materials. All opinions provided are my own.

[ID: Jess, a white woman wearing sunglasses & a pizza sweatshirt, holds the ebook & sits in front of a lake.]

​Summary. 

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.

My review.

This book is such a delight. IMO it’s not perfect. But the vibes are close to it.

If that doesn’t make sense, maybe my review will clarify.

In Bride, vampyre Misery agrees to a marriage of convenience with an alpha shifter so that she can find out more info about her missing sister.

Vampyres & weres have been long-standing, often violent foes & to make matters more complicated for Misery, she’s never been fully embraced by Vampyres either.

Misery & Lowe’s meeting doesn’t go well in her opinion, but the reader can sense something else going on (PNR readers where you at ). This book gets a lot of mileage from undercurrents & from significant moments in shifter / vampyre dynamics: marking, knotting, feeding OH MY.

This book is quite hot & really delivered for me in all of those moments (still not quite sure I understand knotting though ).

Added to those tensions & heat are some humor & compassion & found family elements. I adored it.

Are there some things about the plot that I did not adore? Yes. But I didn’t hate them & in a way, they did some work for the vibes too.

So the end, this is just a fun, relatively low angst (despite all of the threats of violence & acts of violence in the story) shifter tale that satisfies on basically all levels. Gimme more.

4.5⭐️. Out tomorrow!

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Are you a shifter romance fan? Is this release on your TBR? Let me know and thanks for stopping by!

Happy reading! ​