Bride

TLDR: Book lacked real fantasy elements and the spice was nonexistent. FMC is a bag of bricks and miscommunication/misunderstanding is the whole plot. MMC is there and kinda boring. Not a real alpha-hole.

Review:

This book was bad. Like really bad. The FMC is a vampyre (so they say), but there is nothing about her being a vampire except she drinks out of blood bags and occasionally her husband. We know the vampires can "thrall" aka mind control folks, but that's it. That's all we know. Oh they sleep during the day. These have to be the most boring vampires I've read in years. Even Twilight's vampires had something. These vampires - I feel are humans in disguise. Even Misery says the humans are stronger than them. LAME! The whole point of being a different species is getting some perks. Just boo! Also, is Misery digesting this peanut butter? Just a side thought since they don't eat human foods? No explanation there. Why don't they eat it besides they're better than everyone else? Does it hurt them or could they eat it? No clue.

The werewolves (which I'm pretty sure are just supposed to be called shifters, since werewolves and shifters are typically two different things, but they still go by weres here???) do what they do. I don't really have any major complaints about them. The humans were humans.

I kept forgetting about Ms. Paris. I can't even remember her first name now. I know the cat's name! Sparkles! Misery's bestie was forgettable and I felt nothing for her sadly. She just wasn't written well. That cat had more to substance than she did.

Lowe was not really the typical alpha-hole. He was an architect and gave everything up for his pack. He was an adoring brother. He's BIG. Like Big. Big shoes, (size 14), big hands, tall, big body, big dick. Everything about him is big, and you won't forget it. The whole book. We got it. He's big damn. He doesn't think they will work together, blah, blah, blah. The other wolves/shifters I've seen will go for their mates no matter what. At least making it known. This was just not the behavior we typically see, and it was lacking honestly. Sorry. There really wasn't anything that stuck out about him. He was just there. Sorry.

Misery is dumb as a bag of bricks. She was so dumb the entire time. She's a computer wiz. She doesn't care about people (a big reason for her and bestie's fight), but she latches on to Ana immediately and runs into the sun for her? Not sure how we got there. She took forever to figure out she was Lowe's mate. I can forgive her for hearing it at the wedding, but as time went on she just never put it together. It was right there. I hate misunderstanding tropes. That was literally the plot here the entire time. That and not knowing anything. She didn't know anything. The sex was randomly put in and just boring. It was boring.

Seeing into this world was non-existent. She was a horrible first person character to follow. She said she spent no time with the vampyres but we kept getting these paragraphs about what they do. She is so stagnant and boring. She doesn't make any real efforts to learn anything about the vampyres or the weres. She hates how she was the collateral, but instead of doing anything she just whines about it sits in her misery. Her brother was making some moves at the end of the book and Misery could care less. No helping him stop the collateral stuff or even helping to shape the people even when she noted how stressed he was. It's disappointing. She wanted to know about were culture and their "words", but only talked to Lowe. If everyone was so nice to her go out and ask them. Like? Duh... Anyways, this is something I wish I could get my time back on. This is a double skip for me. I won't be picking up another Ali Hazelwood book. This was my first & last.