Book: Unbound
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Thank you, NetGalley and Spotify Audiobooks, for an advanced audio copy.
Unbound follows Lilit, a five-thousand-year-old revenant who has been protecting mortals, and Roman, an ER doctor who somehow becomes the one person she cannot stay away from. When someone starts hunting Lilit and Roman gets caught in the crossfire, she has to choose between everything she has sworn to protect and the man she was never supposed to love.
The premise is genuinely interesting and the world Hazelwood built across both novellas is creative. Lilit is a compelling character on paper — ancient, disciplined, guarded — and Roman is easy to root for.
The problem is that at novella length, there just is not enough room for the romance to breathe. I never fully felt the connection between Lilit and Roman the way the story needed me to. Everything moved a little too fast for the emotional payoff to land the way it should have.
It is a quick, easy read and fans of the first novella will probably want to see it through. But if you are coming in expecting the romance to hit as hard as the concept suggests, you might come away a little underwhelmed like I did.
Final Score 3/5
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