WELCOME
Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, let me introduce you to Valera, the waste that likes to play/be the victim. I give you – The Moonfire Bride. Ugh!
A 4.2/5 – 4/5 or 3.8/5 rating hinged on a single decision made in the last 40 or so pages of this book. Then it went down to a 3.5/5 because, Valera.
BASICS
Official title: The Moonfire Bride
My title: Valera, Valera, where art thou?!
Author: Sylvia Mercedes
Publisher: FireWyrm Books
Fav character: Erolas
Type: Book series – Candlelight and Shadows
Will I read the others: NOPE
3.5/5
INTRO
Readers, I need to emphasise how great the premise of this book seemed. It may turn out to be a great read for many of you, but we all know my high demands on female characters, you know, that they be reasonably intelligent and sensible. What I thought would be a Cinderella retelling, turns out to be more Beauty and the Beast-esque, but there are some fun elements that made it stand on its own.
REVIEW
In this almost Beauty and the Beast-Esque retelling, a 18 year old seamstress girl – Valera – CHOOSES to leave her home and be taken by the fae after she has given her name, been followed, told to stay in the house for the night AND believes herself tricked concerning her sister. She arrives at a castle to the home of the appealing fae, horns having, bridegroom, where she is catered too, indulged and informed about a curse and provided with some clues.
She is told she can roam the castle at her leisure and that she basically has a lady maid tree lady and goblins, who roam about naked 💁. In roaming, she notices some weird happenings and deduces the presence of a curse. She is troubled, scared, concerned, terrified, frustrated, sewing, annoyed… etc, but is she curse solving competent, no. So the author gives up on her. 🙈
When her 7 years younger sister promises to find her and she spots her again… Vali will not make the best or most intelligent of choices. She will not consider putting the pieces together but will simply choose to be a jackass. 😒
DISAPPOOOINTTTMMMEEENNTTTT
Unfortunately for Erolas, while he chose someone with magic, she also chose an idiot. A female with NOOOOOO common sense. Weak. Pathetic. 🤦♀️ What a waste. I had hopes she could be saved… alas… here we stand. Crying, screaming, pouting, ‘in terror’, stamping her feet, fainting… yeah, yep… A waste. She is a waste.
This girl is presented with a mystery, a delicious one to put her mind to, save people and return to her family… but does she do this?! Nope. She’s too dull, instead she will whine, cry, feel terror, run from shadows, moan and bemoan her choices and bring the whole castle tumbling down. AND NOT IN A TRIUMPHANT MANNER! Oh no, she’ll need to be lifted a whisked away even through her idiotic choices…
OBSERVATIONS
▪️“…for you are not to blame for what has happened here tonight. Indeed, you may be the only truly guiltless soul in this whole accursed world…”
OUR SCANNERS SHOW, THISSS IS A LIE! She is most def to blame.
▪️My name is a powerful secret – she then proceeds to use it as often and as wildly as possible – screaming it into enchanted forests and hallways… 🤦♀️
▪️WE SPENT A WHOLEE BOOK with this man occasionally speaking, but saying profound things ONLY TO REALISE THIS HUMAN hasn’t even been fkkin listening!
CONCLUSION
It’s been a while since I wanted to curse a character this much. 🤦♀️ She is a disgrace to older sisters and had she been in #theunraveling she would have been one of the RIGHTFULLY DISCARDED elder children. IDIOT!
Sigh, I will be calmer next time.
Pages: 240
Publisher: FireWyrm Books
Year: 2021
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