A Soul to Keep: Duskwalker Brides: Book One

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Whatever he eats, a bit of it is absorbed and because he's eaten so many humans, he's slowly developing human traits but he can't stop himself because he's constantly hungry. Also, if she was shunned by the community from the age of seven, how exactly did she manage to grow up? Katerina is vilified for leaving Orpheus because she apparently never saw the humanity beneath the monstrous exterior. This ultimately pulled me out of the story one too many times, but what is unworkable for me may not register for someone else.

Após este período, o valor da mensalidade será cobrado automaticamente, por meio do método de pagamento cadastrado. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster. The book's writing is decent and the story up until that point was okay, but I wish the author had reconsidered her choices with Katerina.Duskwalker Brides a series that features a very real monster who never turns into a handsome prince. It felt like important scenes were rushed along while innocuous scenes were fluffed to the brim with pointless dialogue. By slow, I mean there were a lot of scenes of Reia and Orpheus' day to day life and so much inner dialogue with Orpheus and Reia constantly questioning themselves and mentioning how much they like each other. After that "incidence" and many months later, sometimes I could not stop thinking about that cover in my head.

Katerina was his first, and therefore the one who experienced Orpheus at his least humane, at his most dangerous. Just because Reia likes Orpheus and doesn't see him as a monster doesn't mean Katerinas trauma and revulsion to him isn't valid. Firstly, lets start with the cover- I just can't stop staring at it it's just so gorgeous and perfect. And the world building was done so well without feeling like I was smashed over the head with exposition. This was gonna be a 3-star review up until the 80% mark, at which point I was genuinely angry at the way they decided to handle things, so down to 1-star we go.

The list of icks only continued as I read; gut rearranging sex magic, victim blaming, the overuse of the word "squelch", sex as a metric of love and care.

There was never a dull moment, (well apart from the dreaded traveling) it was one adventure after another. I just wanted more depth and better flow, a more comprehensive unfolding of this world with demons and duskwalkers and a veil. I also like that there is a skull (or a head) of Orpheus between paragraphs in each chapter, because it tells me that the next POV will switch to either Reia or Orpheus in each chapter. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.The pacing didn't bother me while listening to the audiobook because I was driving across state lines for hours and I actually thought their inner dialogue was spot on for people in their situation. I still don’t know, but what would have happened in the story if Belle had fucked the Beast before he became a human. I also want to mention that I was disappointed (and a little befuddled) by the author's approach to the first intimate scene. Before you start reading my review, I would like to point out that this book, or this series, is not suitable for readers who are under 18 years old due to sexual content. Thanks to dual-POV because I got to know more about his background, it makes me want to hug him so badly!