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Autumn Curses by K.O. Newman

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5.0

'Helmets on and get ready for the ride, the dragon biker is riding through the neighbourhood. His destination? Maine. Location: Occult Books. Target: Sophie, a shifter witch. The claws are out!

Thank you to K.O.Newman for sending me this ebook Advanced Readers Copy of this novella for me to read and review as a part of her ARC Team.
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*Warning* - This review will not contain major spoilers, but will reference to minor things within the novella. If you don't want to read minor details, please STOP reading this review from this point. Thank you! :)

It may be spring, but there's an Autumn breeze in the air and with it comes Autumn Curses, a novella which previously featured in the Cavern of Love anthology (no longer available). K.O.Newman has braved the bookish waters and has decided to release her story from that anthology as a novella, and it's time to reacquaint ourselves with Fenrir, a dragon biker shifter, and Sophie who is half witch, half cat shifter.

It's been a hot minute since I've read that anthology and subsequently, Autumn Curses, so it was a case of feeling like I was coming back to home while getting to know the place (i.e. the story) for the first time all over again. We all wish we could go back to some of our favourite reads for the first time again, and now was that chance here for me and this novella.

Get ready for a story that pulls, quite literally, two soulmates together. Or in this case since there's a touch of the paranormal involved, fated mates. Our two main characters were brought together by circumstances bigger than themselves, both equally going through something personally trying and fate being fate, it brings together two people who will help both themselves and each other out by the power of their bond. Among other things.

This is a story that will show everyone of how they think the impossible can't happen, can actually happen. This isn't simply a story about fated mates, it's also got a little mix of strangers-to-lovers and forbidden romance in there to spice things up, add a little heat, and that's exactly what you'll be reading. Forbidden, shifter heat.

And an amusing ghostly aspiration of a mother, she's a hoot.

K.O.Newman manages to pack so much into so few pages so much so, you'll consume this novella in a matter of hours. I stretched it out over a few days simply to make it last, but hand on heart honest you'll all devour this novella and Fenrir and Sophie both. There are a few little twists and turns here and there to keep things that little bit more interesting, gripping even, and the journey to happily ever after is just as eventful as the collision of worlds brought together by the pairing of these two fated mates. In short, good things come in small packages, and this novella is one hell of a package.

I can genuinely say that if this would ever be a full-length novel, or if there would be one with a continuation of their story someday, I wouldn't be complaining. I'd read it. In fact, K.O. if you read this, I'm making this my formal request to see more of these two in the future. Please? Pretty please?

Five stars for Fenrir, Sophie and K.O.Newman!

thebritishbibliophile's review

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5.0

'Helmets on and get ready for the ride, the dragon biker is riding through the neighbourhood. His destination? Maine. Location: Occult Books. Target: Sophie, a shifter witch. The claws are out!

Thank you to K.O.Newman for sending me this ebook Advanced Readers Copy of this novella for me to read and review as a part of her ARC Team.
----------------------------------
*Warning* - This review will not contain major spoilers, but will reference to minor things within the novella. If you don't want to read minor details, please STOP reading this review from this point. Thank you! :)

It may be spring, but there's an Autumn breeze in the air and with it comes Autumn Curses, a novella which previously featured in the Cavern of Love anthology (no longer available). K.O.Newman has braved the bookish waters and has decided to release her story from that anthology as a novella, and it's time to reacquaint ourselves with Fenrir, a dragon biker shifter, and Sophie who is half witch, half cat shifter.

It's been a hot minute since I've read that anthology and subsequently, Autumn Curses, so it was a case of feeling like I was coming back to home while getting to know the place (i.e. the story) for the first time all over again. We all wish we could go back to some of our favourite reads for the first time again, and now was that chance here for me and this novella.

Get ready for a story that pulls, quite literally, two soulmates together. Or in this case since there's a touch of the paranormal involved, fated mates. Our two main characters were brought together by circumstances bigger than themselves, both equally going through something personally trying and fate being fate, it brings together two people who will help both themselves and each other out by the power of their bond. Among other things.

This is a story that will show everyone of how they think the impossible can't happen, can actually happen. This isn't simply a story about fated mates, it's also got a little mix of strangers-to-lovers and forbidden romance in there to spice things up, add a little heat, and that's exactly what you'll be reading. Forbidden, shifter heat.

And an amusing ghostly aspiration of a mother, she's a hoot.

K.O.Newman manages to pack so much into so few pages so much so, you'll consume this novella in a matter of hours. I stretched it out over a few days simply to make it last, but hand on heart honest you'll all devour this novella and Fenrir and Sophie both. There are a few little twists and turns here and there to keep things that little bit more interesting, gripping even, and the journey to happily ever after is just as eventful as the collision of worlds brought together by the pairing of these two fated mates. In short, good things come in small packages, and this novella is one hell of a package.

I can genuinely say that if this would ever be a full-length novel, or if there would be one with a continuation of their story someday, I wouldn't be complaining. I'd read it. In fact, K.O. if you read this, I'm making this my formal request to see more of these two in the future. Please? Pretty please?

Five stars for Fenrir, Sophie and K.O.Newman!
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