When a Moth Loved a Bee by Pepper Winters Series: Destini Chronicles, #1, #1
Genres: Fantasy, Romance
Publication Date: February 3, 2023
Pages: 968
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New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters, delivers a brand new High Fantasy Romance.
“It’s taking everything I have not to touch you. Not because I want to make you mine but because every part of me screams that you already are.”
A pack of wolves hunt a girl who takes her last breath by a river’s edge.She is found and nursed back to health by the kind-hearted Nhil people.She has no memory.No past.And is given a choice that could change her forgotten life forever.
A pack of wolves adopt a man who begs for death in the grasslands.Blood revives him. Flesh strengthens him. All while the alpha watches him as if he knows who he is.He has no memory.No past.And yet…he’s drawn toward the smoke of a faraway clan.
And in that smoke, he finds a girl with the same mark on her thigh, the same empty mind, and the same forgotten language on her lips.
He’s convinced they know each other.She’s certain they are strangers.But the more time they spend together, the more tangled the truth becomes.Their forgetfulness was deliberate.To keep them apart.To keep them lost.To keep them from claiming their true power.Because in that power exists a terrible choice.A choice that could destroy the world……or each other.
When a Moth Loved a Bee is the first volume in the Epic Fantasy Romance Destini Chronicles.A heavily romantic, spice-filled fantasy set in a world where life and death, shadows and stars watch over two forbidden lovers whose powers are best left forgotten.
Recommended for readers over R18 due to explicit scenes, content, and darker elements.
Author Note:This Fantasy is 100% romance. It isn't a quest where they spend most of the book apart. If you want a rich world, magic, intrigue, oodles and oodles of page time with the two characters together, all brimming with longing, forbiddenness, and butterfly-winging moments, then this is the book for you.
This was an interesting read. It’s a big one and took me a week to finish. I’ll say this, you have to pay attention to what’s happening because this world-building is crazy. However, the pace moved slowly for most of the book as we learned about Runa and Darro.
We meet Runa and Darro as they roamed the land. Neither of them knows what they’re looking for, but they know it’s something. Runa was rescued by the Nhil people (who reminded me of Native Americans) and Darro by a pack of wolves. They both keep having visions of a person but they don’t know who the person is, why they’re seeing him/her, or who they are to each other. Through the course of the story, we slowly figure out who they are, what they mean to each other and the lengths man/beast/entities will go to keep them apart.
As I said above, a lot happens in this book. I found myself often needing to go back to remind myself of what was happening at that moment if I put it down. There was a lot of information coming out, either in memories or different entities sharing cryptic messages that I would jumble if I stepped away for too long. I know this was important to the overall story, but it slowed down my reading progress and was something I was fighting against.
A few weeks removed from reading this one, I’m still at a crossroads with my feelings. I enjoyed Runa and Darro (especially when they were together) and the lengths they would go for the others. But I felt hamstrung by the lack of understanding of what led them to where they were. We get glimpses but if it was all so bad, why did they end up in a situation where everything could repeat? That question is probably what haunts me the most. I guess I’ll have to pick up book two to see if that great mystery gets answered.
Shannon
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