🧛‍♀️🐺 What’s the Hype Wednesday: Bride by Ali Hazelwood (DNF Review)

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🧛‍♀️🐺 What’s the Hype Wednesday: Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Ali Hazelwood—the queen of STEM rom-coms—took a daring leap into paranormal romance with Bride. With Vampyres, Werewolves, and a political marriage of convenience, the hype around this book has been huge. But did it live up to the buzz? For me… not quite.

✨ The Buzz

  • A Vampyre bride + an Alpha Werewolf forced into an alliance

  • Marriage of convenience meets forbidden attraction

  • Hazelwood’s first step away from academia and into fangs & fur

  • Readers are divided—some are swooning, others are setting it aside

💭 My Take (DNF Review)

On paper, Bride had everything I usually love: enemies-to-lovers tension, political intrigue, and a gothic edge. Misery Lark and Lowe Moreland should have been the kind of couple I root for, but I just couldn’t connect with them.

  • The pacing dragged, making it hard to stay engaged

  • The characters felt flat instead of electric

  • Hazelwood’s witty banter didn’t quite fit the darker, paranormal tone

I wanted to adore this book, but it just wasn’t my brew. Eventually, I DNF’d—and that’s okay! Not every book is for every reader.

☕ Final Sip

If you’re a paranormal romance lover who enjoys political alliances, slow-burn mistrust, and forbidden pairings, you might still find plenty to sink your teeth into here. But for me, Bride was a miss.

Coffee Pairing: A half-finished cappuccino—looked gorgeous, smelled amazing, but the taste didn’t land for me.

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