My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Summary from GoodReads
Willful and daring, Lady Colette dreams of finding true love with a man who can handle her wild nature without dominating her. Those dreams come crashing down when her doting father decides it’s high time she settle down and marry a weakling lord who could never inspire her passion. While enjoying her final hunt as a free woman, Colette throws caution to the wind and chases her quarry into the dark and forbidding forest known only as “The Twist”.
Wyvern-rider, Sven, has one thing on his mind: capture the beautiful huntress he’s been watching and get her back to his mountain home. Then he can resume his bid to become his clan’s next chieftain. Just as he gets his opportunity, a dagger across his chest alerts him that his would-be-bride possesses far more spirit than he bargained for, but not more than he’s willing to take on.
Stranded together in one of the most dangerous places in the world, a lady and a barbarian find themselves at the mercy of each other as much as the labyrinthian terrain they must escape. Tension grows thick even as time runs short, for something malevolent lurks in the shadows.
Author’s Note: This is not a shifter romance. The Dokiri men are savage enough in their manly forms. That being said, this book features subdued sexual content. Enjoy the heat but don’t expect to get singed.
Trigger warning: This novel plays on the trope of abduction. While Dokiri men won’t let anything keep them from the woman they love, even that woman herself, all sexual acts in this book are consensual.
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I have to admire a heroine who not only doesn't lose her wits completely after being taken by a dragon rider, but she also poisons him and ties him up! This was an enjoyable read with Colette as a strong heroine (albeit sometimes annoying) and Sven who though he could claim his 'bride' and instead got her.
The chemistry worked well between them and by the end of the book I was enjoying it very much.
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Now she lives in the midwest with her adoring husband, a real life gallant hero, and their two wicked goblins (children). When she isn’t writing she’s reading and when she’s not doing either of those things she’s probably plundering the fridge for something she can smother in whipped cream.
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Read Denali's books and series:
Dokiri Brides Series (Fantasy Romance)
- Sven the Collector (#0.5)
- Hollen the Soulless (#1)
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Summary from GoodReads
Her soul for revenge—an easy choice. But is the price too high?
With a fatal bullet in her gut, Celina Leviet has only seconds to make a fateful decision. Join her murdered husband in death, or make a deal with a demon.
She doesn’t know how or why Mekaisto found her, but she doesn’t hesitate. In exchange for her soul, he’ll let her live long enough to wreak revenge. The catch? She must kill the murderers with her own hands.
The contract sealed, her skin carrying Mekaisto’s brand, Celina digs into her husband’s past. But every new revelation unravels everything about the man she loved. His company never existed. His family history was a lie. And he belonged to a shadowy religious order whose members know too much about demons.
Her emotions in shreds, she finds Mekaisto’s seductive charms harder to resist. But her dead husband’s secrets aren’t the only betrayal. As the final, shocking truth comes to light, she struggles with the darkest of choices—break her vow and surrender to the unknown, or succumb to the devil she knows.
HEA and no cliffhanger!
CW: graphic violence/torture/gore, and explicit (consensual) sexual descriptions - for more details, please visit Content Warnings
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I have to say that Magali gave back to the 'demonic' aspect of her characters the terrifying visage we all knew and feared back in the days before demons were romanticized and became closer to the YA spectrum. Everyone here passes through hardships, treachery, secrets and a romance that hides more secrets than any can count.
Frankly, I admired Celina; I would have become an empty shell of myself after everything she's been through in this book. And I was surprised! I mean the jaw-drop surprise something I haven't felt since the last Sarah J. Maas/Leigh Bardugo book.
This was very interesting and I'll keep an eye for the sequel.
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