Soooooo BORING!!!!

A witch who won't use magic and a vampire who won't drink blood avoid the plot by doing mundane cozy things like yoga and wine-tasting. The plot tries to sneak up on them, so they run away to go horseback riding in France. The plot again tries to sneak up on them, so they run away to a cozy farmhouse in upstate New York. A combination of prophecy, time-travel, and fated mates syndrome, inform the duo that they're married now, after knowing each other only a few weeks. Lots of Bibles and old philosophy texts get quoted to defend their fated love, often times in dead or foreign languages, so the audience only understands what they're reading half the time. But despite fate depicting them as equals, our witchy heroine is content to be a sack of potatoes, carted around unconscious by her vampire knight. She spends an inordinate amount of time napping or drugged into oblivion, sometimes even compelled to sleep by her vampire.

If the main character feels like sleeping all the time....guess what this leviathan of a book made me feel like doing....

This book could have said something AMAZING were it's biracial couple ACTUALLY biracial. But instead, it's about two, extremely privileged, white people making broad assumptions about the genetics for race and temperament being linked, and the importance of minding who we marry or procreate with because it could pass down that temperament. Calling an entire race of people aggressive, or prim, or wild is just....well...racist! XD This story does not read well. Despite the interracial couple at the forefront, it still feels like a defense of eugenics.

There were a couple of odd phrases that stood out, and I wondered after awhile where the author was from. I read her bio...and then realized that this book is just a self-insert fantasy for her XD. The witchy scholar of history, science, and the occult, who enjoys food sciences on the side... THAT'S THE AUTHOR!!! Just goes to show, that just because someone is a genius in a field of study, doesn't mean they make the best writer about that topic. I imagine that half the things that were meant to be inspiring or romantic in this book, echoed with HER, but not the average reader.

Does not live up to the hype. If you were hoping for The Da Vinci Code or National Treasure, but with paranormal magic, you will be heavily disappointed. This is a thick, cozy book of the quiltiest order. Use it as a pillow while you read something else.