Songs of Vice

, #1

eBook, 302 pages

English language

ISBN:
9961783935510
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reviewed Songs of Vice by Nicole Bailey (The Siren's Call, #1)

Fae, magic and intrigue are all in here, but the reader's enjoyment will hang almost entirely on how they feel about the instalove trope.

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MC and LI fall in instalove. I'm putting this here at the front because I wish I'd known. I saw "fantasy heist" and dove in headfirst, and I really should have looked before I leapt. Big oof on my part. This goes in the "it's not you, it's me" category, but instalove truly doesn't do it for me, and it is utterly baked into the plot. From the moment the MC and LI lay eyes on each other, they can't stop having feelings. Physical attraction, lust, and overwhelming longings. MC abandons her lifelong dream of a simple life in the hopes she can be useful to him. LI endangers a mission involving his friends and family just to make sure she's taken care of. Other characters even point out that this is very strange and somewhat dangerous behavior, but our leads simply cannot be apart. The narrative implies there's a …

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