What Lies Beyond the Veil by Adelaide Forrest, Harper L. Woods Series: Of Flesh & Bone, #1, #1
Publication Date: February 22, 2022
Also in this series: What Hunts Inside the Shadows , What Lurks Between the Fates
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Once, we’d worshipped them as Gods.
For nearly 400 years, the Veil has protected us from the Fae of Alfheimr. In their absence, our lives have shifted from decadence and sin to survival and virtue under the guidance of the New Gods. I’ve spent my entire life tending to the gardens next to the boundary between our worlds, drawn to the shimmering magic like a moth to the flame.
Then, we died on their swords.
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.
Now, they’ll claim what’s theirs.
But before they capture me, Caelum saves me from the Wild Hunt. Fae-marked and on the run, he is able to fight back in ways I only dream of. From tentative alliance to all-consuming passion, our bond strengthens as the fae close in and evil lurks ever nearer. With my life on the line, he is everything I shouldn’t dare to want and a distraction I can’t afford. I can’t seem to stay away, not even with something greater on the line.
My heart.
Author’s Note: This book is intended for readers who are 18 and older. It contains mature language, graphic violence, and explicit content with darker elements. This is book one in a series and ends in a cliffhanger.
Cocktails and Books received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect our opinion of the book or the content of our review.
This was an interesting twist with the fae. I had figured out fairly quickly what Caelum was. What intrigued me was the lengths he was willing to go to get what he wanted. There were times when I questioned whether or not Caelum was what I thought he was because he mixed in so well with everyone else. I’m now very curious as to what happens next. The fae-marked seem so terrified of their “fae” that I wonder what the ripple effect will be now.
Shannon
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