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His Forsaken Bride
by Alice Coldbreath
I'm finding a lot of comfort and delight in Alice Coldbreath books, but I'm still chasing the high from her Prizefighters series, which are God tier.
Fenella Thane is getting divorced, so she runs to court to try to beg the king to uphold her marriage. In doing so she blackmails his right-hand man, Oswald Vawdrey. But Vawdrey, the spymaster that Fenella has history with, and he has other uses for Fenella. Before she can blink, Fenella is married to Oswald.
Oswald is a bit of an outlier in her hero oeuvre, as he's a spymaster, more of a crafty character than a 'punch now ask questions later,' like so many of her others. This is a type of character I love, because they're always a bit meaner, a bit more opaque, but Oswald is actually quite to his meathead brothers. His machinations weren't incredibly interesting, so instead I focused more on Fenella's failures to establish herself at court. It felt like it went nowhere - Fenella never truly comes into her own outside of being loved by Oswald, and Oswald's bad behavior was so short-lived and erratic that it didn't make for memorable conflict.
There was still so much to like in here, and it hooked me on the next book, which is Roland Vawdrey's, so I'm not going to be quitting Coldbreath books any time soon.
Fenella Thane is getting divorced, so she runs to court to try to beg the king to uphold her marriage. In doing so she blackmails his right-hand man, Oswald Vawdrey. But Vawdrey, the spymaster that Fenella has history with, and he has other uses for Fenella. Before she can blink, Fenella is married to Oswald.
Oswald is a bit of an outlier in her hero oeuvre, as he's a spymaster, more of a crafty character than a 'punch now ask questions later,' like so many of her others. This is a type of character I love, because they're always a bit meaner, a bit more opaque, but Oswald is actually quite to his meathead brothers. His machinations weren't incredibly interesting, so instead I focused more on Fenella's failures to establish herself at court. It felt like it went nowhere - Fenella never truly comes into her own outside of being loved by Oswald, and Oswald's bad behavior was so short-lived and erratic that it didn't make for memorable conflict.
There was still so much to like in here, and it hooked me on the next book, which is Roland Vawdrey's, so I'm not going to be quitting Coldbreath books any time soon.