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What Lies Beyond the Veil (Of Flesh & Bone Series)

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I'll fill you with so much of my c*m that they can smell it on you tomorrow and remember exactly who you belong to. Oh and the forced empowering quotes that I didn’t like in the first one? They are still here folks🙃

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I thought I’d do a reread just before book 2 comes out next week! I forgot how much I loved the world building in this book. Estrella is from ultra religious, misogynistic society steeped in poverty that completes yearly human sacrifices. On the day she is supposed to die, the misty veil separating the fae and human realms falls and all hell breaks lose. On her journey to escape, she meets the handsome and dangerous stranger, Caelum, who, like Estrella, is fae marked and destined to a mate with a fae.All of that changes the day the Veil shatters, unleashing the fae upon our world once again. The magic of faerie marks those of us they mean to take, but the Mist Guard protecting Nothrek will kill us all before they let the fae have us. There’s no choice but to flee everything I’ve ever known, not if I want to live to see my twenty-first birthday as a free woman. Their journey for survival and to find safe shelter is so much fun to read. Caelum is hot af and Estrella is a smart and independent woman who sometimes makes mistakes but I love her anyway. Their tension and banter is one of my favorites to read. I absolutely loved the worldbuilding. It was well described, many details and the things we find about the fae and their world are really interesting. I’d never forget the look on his face, the absolute rage on my behalf. My family had loved me, but they’d never promised vengeance for me. No one had ever cared the way he did. That terrified me.”

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i have a feeling the next book is going to a whole lot better in terms of plot, so im looking forward to that. Like I get that he's a Fae and an alpha and blah blah but he just came off as super arrogant to me. I don't really get why they loved each other, outside of their ~mating bond~ and mutual attraction. Consent was dubious, as she didn't really know who she was agreeing to have sex with, and this wasn't explored in a way that really resolved it. I liked the love interest more after reading a bonus scene with his POV but couldn't help comparing this to the numerous books by Sarah J Maas that manage to have alpha heroes that are also working to temper their darker Fae natures and seem to have actual reasons for liking their partners. I'm much more into the idea of mates as a matching up of ideal partners than of a drive to be together that seems to be based on almost nothing. I should mention that I spent the first 30% of this book thinking booktok had bamboozled me AGAIN, because it was just kind of meh for me, but once shit ( finally) hit the fan I was H O O K E D. & then I figured out where Adelaide/Harper was going with this, and I had that moment.

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While I really enjoyed What Lies Behind the Veil, the first in this series, I’m sad to say I did not enjoy this follow-on. Estrella spent her entire life tending to Lord Byron's gardens in Mistfell during the day and receiving private lessons from him and his tutors at night. But once the barrier between the two realms is broken, Estrella's life is forever changed. Marked as a mate to one of the fae, she must flee to save herself from being hunted down by the Mist Guard, protectors of the human realm, as well as the Wild Hunt, a group of fae from the Shadow Court.

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