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Bride by Ali Hazelwood
3.0
The vampire werewolf trope is a very saturated market and I don’t think that Bride does enough to stand out. The places where the book attempts to differentiate itself from the trope are the book’s weakest parts, leaving it without much going for it. But it is fun and I enjoyed it despite not thinking it was the most well written book so I can’t hate all that much. The dynamic between the two main characters is good but everything else is forgettable.
The B plot of trying to find a missing character very conveniently hands clues to our protagonist to move the story forward. Misery is able to conveniently find all the information she needs through sitting down and “hacking” random computers that lay out the next step which is frustratingly convenient and immersion breaking.
The book also features a 7 year old girl who acts like she is at most 4. 7 year olds can count to 10. I don’t know why this bothered me so much but I couldn’t not enjoy any scene with this character because it felt so poorly executed.
Anyway. Was it fun? Sure. Was it good? Not really.
The B plot of trying to find a missing character very conveniently hands clues to our protagonist to move the story forward. Misery is able to conveniently find all the information she needs through sitting down and “hacking” random computers that lay out the next step which is frustratingly convenient and immersion breaking.
The book also features a 7 year old girl who acts like she is at most 4. 7 year olds can count to 10. I don’t know why this bothered me so much but I couldn’t not enjoy any scene with this character because it felt so poorly executed.
Anyway. Was it fun? Sure. Was it good? Not really.