A Soul to Keep: Duskwalker Brides: Book One

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This year, Reia is chosen, yet she finds that this 7ft tall demon creature Orpheus isn't as bad as she'd expected. And the world building was done so well without feeling like I was smashed over the head with exposition.

Katerina was his first, and therefore the one who experienced Orpheus at his least humane, at his most dangerous. So for five years, in her mind, Katerina was a prisoner being raped, biding her time till she could escape.There are a lot of moments where Reia is purposefully obtuse, which was very annoying and had me screaming at her to use her brain. I of course have an interest in a certain appendage and let me just say I wasn’t disappointed and that too felt very original.

I will add, and this could be a perk to some readers, I felt like the erotica near the end took over the story.Uma mensagem por e-mail será enviada antes do término do período gratuito, que pode ser cancelado a qualquer momento. The baths, omg they were so freaking hot, especially because of the building chemistry between them. But he tries to fight his nature for his sacrifices/companions even if they don’t give him the same. The dynamic between Orpheus and Reia is interesting (we know he won't eat her, but he sure gets close to it), and it was fun to see which parts of The Ancient Magus' Bride the author decided to work into the story and what world-building was original. Katerina is vilified for leaving Orpheus because she apparently never saw the humanity beneath the monstrous exterior.

Pense que este libro iba a ser de esos donde es mas porno que plot (que no tiene nada de malo) pero genuinamente tiene un plot decente y puedo ver como puede desarrollarse en los libros que viene, estoy muy feliz de haber encontrado este libro. Orpheus is the sweetest monster of all time who just wants to be good and do Reia right, but also is tempted to eat her. But this 534 page standalone fantasy monster romance was - to me - perfectly paced and used every page well. She started writing because of her love of the written word, and because she wanted to build a diverse world of mythological creatures, while also showing the beauty of all ethnicities of humanity. The next book, A Soul to Heal, will feature a plus sized character and the nameless Duskwalker we met in this book.I don't expect highly nuanced feminism in my monster romance, but this plot point was so stupid and misogynistic that I could not enjoy any part of the story after that.

In one of the first physical scenes between Reia and Orpheus the author includes misinformation about what a hymen is, as well as the harmful purity stereotype that revolves around it. Look, Orpheus is so sweet, but I’m not down for an animal skull headed dude nor am I into a penis that has tentacles that can retract inside the body. It's about a girl who gets sacrificed to a Duskwalker monster who can't help himself when humans bleed or run from him. A Soul to Keep is one slow burn romance between a Duskwalker (imagine Elias from TAMB, furry body, wolf skeleton for the head and Impala's horns on the top.The Duskwalker Brides series is still ongoing, and I understand that there will be 8-9 books in the series. Almost right away our MC Reia read very much like a mary-sue, sheltered but wise, weak but strong, doesn't like books but is knowledgeable about things like psychology and anatomy. I also like that there is a skull (or a head) of Orpheus between paragraphs in each chapter, because it tells me that the next POV will switch to either Reia or Orpheus in each chapter. I also want to mention that I was disappointed (and a little befuddled) by the author's approach to the first intimate scene.