Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance

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At the moments it was giving me vibes of first From blood and ash book, the slow burn and enemies to lovers crafted amazingly! While this first installment focuses on slow burn, readers can look forward to plenty of angst, a mentor x student dynamic, some dom/sub kinks and a taste of the more intense things to come. I glanced at some other reviews of people saying they didn't like the world building, but personally that didn't matter to me because I was more interested in the romance.

I am incredibly fond of the FMC who came into her own through the story and embraced the dark feminine traits I love to see in a female character. These training sessions are random, most happening because Rhaim says he needs to know he can trust her before teaching magic… which to me is a really unusual way to figure that out. This reads like a chat role-play, alternating POVs of each character and every time the character is mentally trying to justify why they did what they did or how they felt.star rating are: character motives felt weak and inconsistent, world building could be stronger and filled out more, and most of the smut came off more as abuse.

Bend Her” is a spicy, dark and tantalizing Beauty and the Beast retell that pulled me in from the start and is a delicious dark retelling treat. If you are a fan of slow burn, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, he falls first romances that are a dark, twisted Beauty and the Beast re-telling, include magic and magical creatures and a light BDSM dom/sub dynamic then this is the book for you. She danced for me, beneath my onslaught, prancing like the proudest pony might, tossing her head as her ass swayed beautifully.

I defiently will read the next installment, as it ended in a bit of cliffhanger for me and I just want to know more! In all instances, we’re told, the reasoning behind the visions is the same: if you’re strong enough to be trusted with powers, then you must learn to accept the hand of fate, as surely as you’d earned it as your mage-mark.

The book does end on a cliffhanger and book 2 does not come out until May 2023, so there is a bit of a wait. I thoroughly enjoyed the two narrators for Lisane and Rhaim, they did an incredible job bringing the story to life. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He's a grumpy man living in a floating castle (yes, you read that right) with Finx, his cute spider-cat, spending his days acquiring knowledge and doing experiments in his laboratory.Lisane—soft, sweet, but sharp when she needs to and determined to make her life exactly what she wishes on her own terms; Rhaim—a first class a-hole, with the grump and temper we all love from the Beast, and a secret softness that only Lisane is able to bring out. Final note: Also, I'm not sure where the "beauty and the beast" parallel holds up outside of him transforming into a beast.