Stolen Midsummer Bride
Tara Grayce
Rating System:
Overall: 2/5
Plot and themes: 2/5
Characters: 2/5
Writing style: 3/5
Attention-grabbing: 2/5
This is the third book in the Stolen Bride of the Fae novella series, a fun partnership by a bunch of indie romance authors. I've read Tara Grayce before and I've liked what I've seen. In this novella, Basil is a librarians assistant who has risen from pretty impoverished circumstances. He's lonely though, so he journeys to the human world to "steal" a bride which is really only walking past the barrier and finding a girl waiting in the forest to travel to the fae realm. They have to figure out how to combine their interests and make their lives work together.
Maybe it's just because it's a novella, but everything was pretty poorly defined here. The rise and fall of the conflict was too simple and boring. Everything was so quickly resolved despite no information really being provided about it. Meg and her family is hungry? Walk into the woods and offer yourself even though there's not really any information on that. And luckily, there just happens to be someone there to marry her on the one night she goes out even though it's a fairly uncommon situation. I realize that was the whole plot motivator but it felt like no consideration was given to just how lazy it all was.
The writing was better than anything and yes I know it's not meant to be super complicated, it just wasn't as enjoyable for me as the last one was. I'll still probably read the next and all and it's a fun way to get to know a bunch of authors. This one was just a little too little.
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