Bride

Ali Hazelwood

Feb 2024 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Thérèse Plummer and Will Damron

About this audiobook

#1 Indie Next Pick!
A Hall of Fame LibraryReads pick!
One of People’s Best Books to Read in February

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...

Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….

Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.

Ratings and reviews

I never rate books. Especially those on the spicy side, as they are so very very cringey for me. I barely even read spice! But this one wasn't tacky or overly done; it was funny and contemporary, mixing humor into it. The leads - for me - were realistic. The male lead was commanding, authoritarive, but believably so while still having other traits that humanized him and made him multifaceted. Same with the female lead, giving her uncertainty, naivette, but adding a whole lot of humor and brains to show that she was not just a simpering pretty face. And all without being super feminist! Nothing against feminists, but I just want to read books for the immersion. A lot of recent romance books I've attempted to read/listen to seem to pack real world issues so much into thier writing that I practically choke on politics and leanings the fist chapter in. I've been dying to find a book like this that made me laugh, cry, and want more, letting me forget the real world for a while. 💖

Let me tell you, I am a tough freakin critic. I give most spicey novels 1 or 2 stars because the story lines are so cringe. But this...It's so good. I stayed up till 6 am on a work night to listen to as much of this book as I could. I yelled at the characters in my car. I felt guilty listening to it on my lunch break. GIGGLED while thinking about it at work! Girl, I was giggling like I had a new crush I couldn't stop thinking about! I consumed the book in 2 days and now that I'm done i want to read it again. Bookmarking this time.

Book was well written but I do have to admit that I feel like I was bamboozled when you had both the male and female voice actors at the prologue and then the only time you hear the male voice was at the beginning. I understand it's difficult to switch voice actors to follow the story but I expected the male protagonists's voice in the last chapter to give us his pov from start to finish but sadly even then I didn't get to hear more of the male voice actor's voice. The story was good, just wish I got to hear the male and females voices equally

About the author

Ali Hazelwood is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis, as well as a writer of peer-reviewed articles about brain science, in which no one makes out and the ever after is not always happy. Originally from Italy, she lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the US to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. When Ali is not at work, she can be found running, eating cake pops, or watching sci-fi movies with her three feline overlords (and her slightly-less-feline husband).