Review: What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

 

Series: Of Flesh & Bone #1

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.

Another BookTok recommendation hot off the presses.  I've really been on a fae fantasy romance kick lately so when this book came across Booktok last night, I knew I had to read it.  Unfortunately, it fell a little flat for me.  While the premise itself of the veil separating the human and fae worlds and the Fae Marked Bonds was interesting, too much of the story was predictable for me.  Estrella's savior I knew right off the bat who he'd end up being. The instalove banter between him and Estrella was at times a little cringy even though I really do like instalove books.  This one was just off in a way I can't describe. For someone she'd just met, she thought about getting in the sack with him far too quickly as evidenced by the all too predictable reveal of his true identity.  

All in all, a meh read for me. Great world building, but way too predictable with the plot twists.