Title: A Steep and Savage Path
Author: JJA Harwood
BLURB
An immortal vampire. A mortal bride. A vow that even death can’t break.
Irina is about to be married to a dead man. She is the willing village sacrifice for the Wedding of the a desperate ritual designed to lay the hungry vampire that has been terrorising her Transylvanian village to rest. Irina’s beloved sister’s soul is trapped in the land of the dead. If Irina can retrieve it, she could bring her back – but Irina would need a guide, one who can walk between the living and the dead.
Irina strikes up a deal with her new husband – if he agrees to get her safely there and back again, then he can drink her blood as much as he wants.
They begin a perilous journey through the afterlife together, in which Irina realises Stefan isn’t the cruel and terrifying monster that she thought. In a land of three-headed beasts, winged creatures and walking corpses, the last thing Irina would have expected was to fall in love.
Only, Irina learns that by bringing Stefan to the land of the dead she has put him in grave danger, and will be faced with an impossible choice. Will they be able to make it out, undead or alive?
A bride marries the village vamp so she can gain access to the underworld to rescue her sister’s soul…..
I absolutely loved the premise of this story and I absolutely adored how the underworld was described, monsters aside!
Irina was so determined and Stefan really tried to come off as a monster because he was a vamp…..but there’s a story there too. The 2 of them together made my heart sing! (My little cauliflower!!!!)
It did fall a bit flat for me in places because their journey was just so long and repetitive but overall, I enjoyed it.
Sound like something you’d like?
