Stolen Mage Bride
Sylvia Mercedes
4/5
This is the second story in a series of novellas that a bunch of fantasy romance authors have teamed together to publish. It follows the story of King Lodirhal and Mage Dasyra, one of them was supposed to kill the other on the battlefield in a champion challenge to determine the ownership of a key military fortress. But when they meet face to face, they realize that there's a whole fated bond thing going on that basically ruins everything they each stand for.
I think it was cute. It would be great especially if you're trying to get out of a reading slump because as stated it's a novella under 200 pages. As such though, it's designed to be condensed into a small space and give us an intro and a happily ever after. Thus it's straightforward in its execution. Read the synopsis, that's exactly what you should expect. I don't have much against that because sometimes I read just to read and this has a nice ring to it. If you're looking for complicated fantasy though this probably won't interest you at all.
I'm looking forward to reading the other novellas. Short, easily digestible, and nice introduction to authors I haven't read before. I also saw that this is an introduction to another book series that's going to feature the child of the protags, don't know how I feel about that as a staunch enemy of reading about protags' kids but we'll see.
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