But it is what it is, and it regardless still worked for me because it had much more to offer as well. It is also important to point out that I know a lot of readers could be put off but the amount of explicit sexy times or adjacents, that are present in this, and I do have to say it feels like a bit of a shame because this is actually a really good book with a fascinating mythology as well as well-developed characters and story, so it would definitely deserve wider readership.

However I must say this, the author toes the line of gratuitous smut overshadowing the plot, and she does it pretty well, remembering that she does actually have a story to tell and not getting completely carried away with the erotica bits of her novel (there would be nothing wrong with that per se, it just wouldn’t be my thing). In fact heres’ your content warning: this book is definitely rated 18 and possibly the smuttiest book I’ve read to date so to quote booktok/booksta/book-what-have-you, this novel is a 7 chilies out of 5 level of spicy.īut then again it is a vampire romance so really, an extra dose of sexiness is to be expected hah. Not even 15% in and things get – let’s be classy – extremely sexy, and it doesn’t let up. So I started reading under the impression I’d be going through something YA to NA levels of smut and explicitness.ĭear reader/listener I was, very, very wrong.

Or, more specifically, I had the right plot blurb in mind, but my lovely brain had superimposed this plot to the age/maturity rating of another. So here’s the thing, I went into this book thinking I was starting another one. Because apparently that is all my mood reader will allow me to read since January… I am starting to think it’s taking revenge on me for all the years I hadn’t warmed up to the genre.įirst though, here’s a funny peek into what it is like living with my brain: my memory isn’t the best sometimes, especially when it comes to similarly designed book covers.

Hello again dear reader or listener, today I thought I’d share with you some of my thoughts on my latest fantasy romance read. Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king – fierce, savage, merciless – chose her as consort. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court.Įxcept it isn’t the court she fears most – it’s Adrian. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him.īut her assassination attempt is thwarted, and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead.

Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day.

Adrian x isolde