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Title: What Lies Beyond the Veil

Series: Of Flesh & Bone #1

Author: Harper L. Woods

Genre: genre: fiction, genre: fiction: adult, genre: fiction: romance, genre: fiction: romance: dark, genre: fiction: romance: fae/fairies

Status: Finished

Rating: 2.5/5

Sypnosis: 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.

Review: I feel like this story was stretched out to be filled with fillers in between the main storyline. I could not find any connection with the FL, nor did I like the possible ML? I felt like the central FL was bordering on "Mary Sue" just a tad and the possible ML seemed a tad bit on the sexual harassment side. I suppose I may try again later on again with this book and see if the feelings change with it, but I could not get myself really into it.