
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I blindly followed the order of reading that Audible set in front of me, and it said I had to read this before book 4 in the series, so in I went! I don’t actually think I needed to do that, and this can likely be read at any point, unless I’m missing something.
This short story gives us a glimpse into the unlikely courtship of Vonda and Hiram, Rue’s parents. Neither goes by the right name in the story, but it’s easier for me to use their real names for review. The previous book ends with Rue receiving a photo of her parents, so maybe that’s why I needed to read this right after? Either way, we dive right into Vonda’s mischievous life tempered by her required time spent working her parent’s apothecary-ish stall at the market. It’s there that she meets Hiram and their taboo love affair begins.
Her warg BFF supports her shenanigans, so is her partner in crime for most of this, as we learned in the previous books. While Vonda doesn’t know at the start that Hiram is dark/demon/whatevs, she knows he is not necessarily the “good” match her parents would expect. That doesn’t stop her and likely drew her closer to him at the start. By the time she finds out his secret, she is in too deep to give him up. It was AWESOME seeing her stand up for herself, her family, and who she loves. I love a good, strong, female lead, and after spending so much time with Rue it’s no surprise her mom was like that.
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