Bride

Title: Bride 

By: Ali Hazelwood 

Length: 416 pages 

Age Rating: MATURE - very spice! Its great spice, dont get me wrong, absolutely no young eyes! 

Rating: 11/13

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The Non-Spoiler Version 

Im going to keep this one short. I really struggled with this rating, I need y’all to understand I loved this book. Not to out myself too bad here, but if you spent any time at all in the werewolf section of wattpad, you too will love this book. It is the elevated version of that in almost every way possible. It escalates at the end, as most books do, but its easy to follow and the villain is easy to hate. I think that might be one of the better things about this book, it doesnt take itself too seriously, its an easy read half full of smut. Sometimes thats just what you need.

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The Spoilers Version

 I really meant it when I said this book feels like an elevated werewolf wattpad tale. It hits alot of the same beats right up to her dad being the villain. But it just took that shit wattpad writing I ate up as a teenager and turned it into a book that I love as an adult. The writing is better, the spice is better (aka not happening right off the hop with a horrible pregnancy trope thrown in). The world feels better, more thought out, I liked the collateral program concept and how it would be super traumatizing to the child that was essentially, sacrificial lambed. I feel like the humans really took a backseat in this story, more of a plot device than anything, but I didnt mind that much. I liked that Misery was given actual skills that made her worthwhile to take on the trip to Emery. I like that she liked coding, it seemed like an actual interest to her. Misery has a personality that does not change to suit Lowes needs and remains consistent throughout the book. That, sadly, is a commendable achievement. It was a little difficult to get a read on Owen, but Misery also couldn't get a read on him, so maybe we weren't supposed to? I gotta admit, I fell for a lot of the twists. I did really think that Lowe and Misery were not mates for like the first half of the book and that they were just going to make it work anyway. When Owen walks in with Lowe in the big stand off with her father, I was more expecting Lowe to break the handcuffs in wolf form rather than Owen be actually be on their side. For the negatives, Id say the being a wattpad werewolf story is slightly a double-edged sword. Misery’s father being the villain and even Serena being a half werewolf felt cliche. To clarify my contradictions, I fell for the twists while I was reading the book, but once the twist had occurred, it left me feeling like it was a bit cliche. There are alot of cliches, including the magical self defence lessons that makes people badasses, but that may simply be a pitfall of the genre. I am not a writer, just a reader. Like most spice books, the story really takes a background to the romance between the leads. Hell, at one point I kinda forgot we were even looking for Serena. Regardless of its small faults storywise, it is a great book if your looking for something hot to read before bed. I would recommend.