This is normalized in the story. Honestly, when the kingdom is attacked by Adrian’s own people, I was kind of like, “Well, y’all are killing them left and right and ruling by brute force with occasional fairness. And then she kills a dude there, her first time out. She does go to court… where Adrian immediately tells her that she’ll have to make decisions already. C’mon.įor instance, once Isolde is in the kingdom of vampires, her first priority should have been to begin reading up on the history of her new kingdom and going to court to observe and learn the dynamics at play. Clair takes the easy way out and has Isolde go, “Oh, I can’t really remember what she said.” Girl. And then she makes a little mention of what the Big Bad might have said, and when pressed for more, St. Clair wanted to get to the sex. Literally, at one point, Isolde is attacked by the Big Bad and, instead of being like “holy shit I just got attacked by the woman my husband has been looking for, I better go tell him what happened and everything she said because she said some weird ass shit” they have sex. Isolde’s voice is distinct and her character is interesting, if occasionally holding the Idiot Ball because either the plot demands it or St. I enjoyed her fight scenes and I was able to follow them well, which is a thing I struggle with sometimes in books. Clair is a good writer, actually, when it comes to the technical aspect of things. I was literally the Ryan Gosling gif I used above at some parts of the book.
I tried, I really did, but honestly my enjoyment of the book increased once I realized I couldn’t take it seriously. It makes no sense to me and authors don’t really try to convince me that that’s what should happen. I don’t read erotica I’ve tried in the past, and it just makes my little ace self uncomfortable because I can’t connect to why the characters would want to jump right into bed with each other. Okay, to be totally fair, this is a little bit outside of my comfort zone. I pretty much couldn’t in order to get to why some stuff bugged me.
Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king-fierce, savage, merciless-chose her as consort. ⠀Įxcept it isn’t the court she fears most-it’s Adrain. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court. ⠀īut her assassination attempt is thwarted and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king, Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him.
Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day her death day.
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