Friday, August 2, 2024

The Harvest Bride by Kati Wilde [Review]

The Harvest Bride (The Dead Lands #6) by Kati Wilde
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: November 13, 2023

The Dead Lands
1. The Midwinter Mail-Order Bride
2. The Midnight Bride
3. Pretty Bride
4. Evil Twin
5. The Midsummer Bride
6. The Harvest Bride - Paperback | Kindle
7. The Stoneheart Bride

Kati Wilde
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
After losing everything to a curse that struck the kingdom of Galoth, Sarya just wants the world to leave her alone. Yet when a demon begins hunting the people in the forest near her village, staying hidden isn’t an option. Neither is avoiding the warrior who helped saved all of Galoth. Bannin the Blowhard has never said a serious word in his life...and yet the warrior claims that he intends to marry Sarya.

Now she’s about to discover how serious Bannin can be when her happiness is at stake—and how completely devoted to her pleasure…
Thoughts on The Harvest Bride: This time around we have Bannin, who threw an unintentional wrench in Warrick and Elina's romance with his story of Warrick's plans, and Sarya, a former guardsman (guardswoman?) who is dealing with the aftermath of the curse that Warrick and Elina broke when they returned the goddess's jewels. Bannin is loud and, in his words, a battering ram when it comes to pretty much everything. He tells larger than life stories and always has a flirty word for Sarya when he sees her. Sarya is closed down and fierce in her own way even though she keeps to herself and rarely interacts with the people in town.

Quite frankly, she absolutely doesn't believe a word that comes out of Bannin's mouth. Then something terrible begins hunting in the forest and she starts to realize that there's more to Bannin than just big words. It isn't long before she comes to accept that the big guy has her back (unlike some people in her former life) and mayyyyybe she's ready to take things in the direction Bannin wants it to go.

On Bannin's end, he is a bit of a battering ram. He lives large and he comes to realize that the things Sarya went through before means she needs a softer touch. So he tries to give her that. Fortunately for him, Sarya doesn't think the battering ram approach is so bad, she just needed to come to terms with the events in her past before she could trust herself in a relationship.

A nasty demon, a whole lot of sparks, a man who knew what his heart wanted the moment he laid eyes on her, and a lady who wasn't afraid to fight. GOOD STUFF!

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