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  A Vampyre and a Werewolf get into an arranged marriage to keep the peace between their two people what else can I say, turns out a lot. I really enjoyed this book more than I thought I was going to. It was going to be a fairly standard enemies-to-lovers romance story but it had such a well-written character and a great mystery.  Bride is about three species of beings that are constantly fighting and on the edge of war, humans, vampyres, and werewolves, with a new human governor taking charge and refusing to continue the same alliance that had worked previously between vampyres and humans, to prevent all-out war an arranged marriage is put through between the new alpha werewolf, Lowe, and the daughter of the vampyre councilman, Misery. Before long it's discovered Misery has hidden reasons for agreeing to this arranged marriage outside of trying to prevent a war and atone for the many deaths of werewolves at the hands of vampyres. Throughout the book, we learn more about Miser...

  Fourth Wing is one of the most popular fiction books to be released recently, I haven't been able to walk into a bookshop since its release without it being on a bookshelf front and center so when it came out in paperback it felt like I should finally get around to reading it (especially with two of my friends also telling me I should).  Fourth Wing is about Violet Sorrengail, a small girl with chronic pain issues, who was trained her whole life by her father to be a scribe and to write down the facts of the war between her country and the outside forces that have been going on for centuries, instead being thrust into the most dangerous course at the Basigath war college by her war general mother who refuses to let her daughter be perceived as weak by not becoming a dragon rider like herself and Violets siblings. The riders course is almost a death sentence for someone like Violet who hasn't trained for long enough, riders are brutal and candidates can die at any given point...