Bride
Ali Hazelwood, 2024
Romance FantasyHorrorContemporary fiction
A Vampyre raised among Humans is summoned home and offered up as a bride to a Werewolf alpha. Fangs, snark, and a very reluctant alliance. A witty, snarky voice carries the romantic longing and power games, with a steady undercurrent of danger.
Feels like humor, longing and passion. About love, power and identity.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy snarky paranormal romance with fangs, reluctant alliances, and a love story that leans into power and longing. If you're hoping for the lab-and-academia backdrop of her contemporary novels, this one trades it for vampire-werewolf politics.
Why read it
It's a brisk, banter-filled escape into vampire-werewolf politics, useful when you want romance with bite and a little menace.
A page from the book
A house built around the one thing that could kill you.
The first things I notice are the two walls of windows, which is exactly what Father wants. Every Human I’ve talked with assumes that Vampyres hate light and relish darkness, but they couldn’t be more wrong. The sun may be forbidden to us, toxic always and deathly in large quantities, but that’s precisely why we covet it with such intensity. Windows are a luxury, because they need to be treated with absurdly expensive materials that filter everything that might harm us. And windows this large are the most bombastic of status symbols, in a full display of dynastic power and obscene wealth. Ali Hazelwood.Ali Hazelwood is a neuroscience professor by day; Bride was her first paranormal romance after a run of STEM-set contemporary bestsellers.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Bride for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy snarky paranormal romance with fangs, reluctant alliances, and a love story that leans into power and longing. If you're hoping for the lab-and-academia backdrop of her contemporary novels, this one trades it for vampire-werewolf politics.
- What is Bride like?
- A witty, snarky voice carries the romantic longing and power games, with a steady undercurrent of danger. Feels like humor, longing and passion. About love, power and identity.
- What should I read after Bride?
- If you liked Bride, try A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Jennifer L. Armentrout), Carry On (Rainbow Rowell) and Quicksilver (Callie Hart).
A taste of the feed
Desire that arrives as need, not want.
I need to feel your lips on mine.“ He planted his hands on the carriage wall, caging me in. ”I need to feel your breath in my lungs. I need to feel your life inside me. I just need you. It’s an ache. This need. Can I have you? All of you?
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire · Jennifer L. Armentrout
What it sounds like to be chosen by someone who knows you.
He’s still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I’m not the Chosen One," he says. I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.
Carry On · Rainbow Rowell
What you call a woman decides how much room she is allowed.
Don’t call her Sunshine,” he commanded. “Why not?” If Carrion’s plan was to poke the bear, then he sure as hell knew how to go about it. But Kingfisher didn’t respond to the taunting note in his question. He just cocked his head a little, nostrils flaring, and spoke in a low rumble. “Because she is moonlight. The mist that shrouds the mountains. The bite of electricity in the air before a storm. The smoke that rolls across a battlefield before the killing starts. You have no idea what she is. What she could be. You should call her Majesty.
Quicksilver · Callie Hart
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