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A review by daniobsessivelyreads
Bride of Ashes by Alaya Wells

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

**𝑨𝑹π‘ͺ π‘Ήπ’†π’—π’Šπ’†π’˜** π‘©π’“π’Šπ’…π’† 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 π’ƒπ’š π‘¨π’π’‚π’šπ’‚ 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒔 π‘©π’“π’Šπ’…π’† 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 (π‘²π’Šπ’π’ˆπ’…π’π’Ž 𝒐𝒇 π‘Ίπ’‰π’‚π’…π’π’˜ 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π‘Ήπ’–π’Šπ’ π‘©π’π’π’Œ 1)

Release Date: March 1, 2025

5⭐️5🌢

Reyla marries a Fae King Merrick, whom she's never met before, because she agreed to marry him, sight-unseen, in order to secure an army that would save her friends and countrymen. 

Lord Lorant aka Lore aka The Viper is the personal bodyguard and best friend to the High Fae King Merrick. He is doing everything in his power not to have feelings for his best friend's wife, but it seems that he can't stay away from the fiery red-haired warrior of a woman. 

King Merrick is not without his own secrets. He seems very interested and drawn to his new bride, but he often pulls away and seems to be hiding may things from her. He also requests that she spend time with his body guard, so that they can all be friends.

The tension in this book is 6 out of 5. I could NOT wait to see what happened between these three. There is another book in this arc, and I'm NOT waiting patiently for it!!

Ms. Alaya Wells (@alayawellswrites) any news on this front? Please keep me informed! I beg of you! Also, thank you for this amazing ARC read!

Themes/Tropes:
🍁Arranged Marriage
🍁Body guard romance
🍁Enemies to lovers
🍁Class Systems
🍁Shadow Daddy
🍁Finding love aft
🍁Dragon riders
🍁Thruple/Love Triangle


TW:
✨Violence
✨Poverty/hunger
✨Grief
✨Mourning the loss of prior love
✨Explicit spicy content
✨Power hungry courtiers who attempt killing each other and the royals