Tuesday, June 16, 2020

How to Kiss an Undead Bride by Hailey Edwards [Review]

How to Kiss an Undead Bride by Hailey Edwards
How to Kiss an Undead Bride (The Beginner's Guide to Necromancy #7) by Hailey Edwards
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: November 5, 2019

The Beginner's Guide to Necromancy
1. How to Save an Undead Life
2. How to Claim an Undead Soul
3. How to Break an Undead Heart
4. How to Dance an Undead Waltz
5. How to Live an Undead Lie
6. How to Wake an Undead City
7. How to Kiss an Undead BrideKindle
8. How to Survive an Undead Honeymoon
9. How to Rattle an Undead Couple

Related Series:
(find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
The Potentate of Atlanta
1. Shadow of Doubt

Hailey Edwards
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Groom? Check.

Dress? Check.

Cake? Check.

More cake? Double Check.

Even more cake? Triple check.

(Seriously, who left Lethe alone with Grier's credit card?)

Anything that can go wrong has,but all the deposits have been paid, and the menus are set. Mostly. There's always room for more cake, right? All that's left is for Grier and Linus to exchange vows and set off on their honeymoon. Their happily ever after awaits, so close they can taste it.

No.

Wait.

That's probably just more cake. Frosting gets everywhere.

Anyway, there's also murder, arson, and general mayhem. This is what happens when two potentates marry. Just cross your fingers they survive exchanging vows, and that the knot they tie doesn't turn into a noose.
Thoughts on How to Kiss an Undead Bride: Diving back in Grier's world with her varied supernatural friends and her reserved honey-bunny and ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TAKE A BITE OUT OF HER (and those around her) makes my heart happy. This world is big and bold and it can be a lot dangerous and I kind of love it.

(As an aside, I tend to have a really hard time reading the final book in a series because I JUST DON'T WANT TO LET THESE CHARACTERS GO, so believe me when I say I am so very very happy with the future that is left open for Grier and all her friends. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but I can see plenty of ways these characters can expand and grow in the years to come. And I am REALLY curious to see how a certain little diva grows into herself and her strange circumstances.)

So. The wedding between Grier and Linus has been a long time coming. Years, as it turns out. Years where Grier was incarcerated and she was doing little more than barely surviving. Years where Linus thought he'd lost the only person who's ever meant something to him.

These two. I really like them together. I like that Grier sees through Linus's masks and demands he be himself when it's just the two of them. I like that Linus just adores Grier and is trying so hard to figure out how to fit into her life in a way that makes them partners instead of what they were before.

And the cast of characters that Grier has assembled. Yessssss. LETHE! Lethe and her bottomless stomach and her bone deep desire to protect her family and pack. Hood who bought a custom sparkly pink car because it's his daughter's favorite color. Cruz and Neely who somehow managed to slide into Grier's odd world even though they're human. And...And...And...ALL THE OTHERS.

(As another aside, the nod to the Thierry and the shenanigans she gets into down in Wink made me giddy. I love when things come together like that!)

I hate to say goodbye to this series, but I am so satisfied with the way things ended. It certainly is the wedding the supernatural community of Savannah has been waiting for. *heart eyes*

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