Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Elven Duty
SERIES: Magic Emporium #7
AUTHOR: Rhys Lawless
PUBLISHER: Rhys Writes Romance
LENGTH: 318 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 4, 2021
BLURB:
My legacy is to hate him, but I can’t.
This woman appears and tells me I’m an elf and she’s my grandmother. Not quite what I expected on a Thursday evening after another day at the office.
Soon, I’m thrown in a world of duty, magic, and monsters.
And a family feud as old as time itself.
I would have run. I would have gone back to my old life. Or started a new one.
But when the man I’m supposed to hate turns out to be my elven soulmate the only thing I can do is fight for my right to love him.
No matter what kind of monster gets in the way.
Elven Duty is part of the multi-author Magic Emporium Series. Each book stands alone, but each one features an appearance by Marden’s Magic Emporium, a shop that can appear anywhere, but only once and only when someone’s in dire need. This book contains a forbidden love, a ton of creatures, a secret “baby”, and a guaranteed HEA.
REVIEW:
Ok. I have my favorite in this story and he has more class in his big finger, than all these elf families who needs someone to shove a boot up their butts. So many lies and secrets kept in order to keep things a certain way and causing rifts where none should be. Made me want to smack them all.
And my favorite in this story, I can’t tell you about. You have to read and find out, but when you ‘meet’ him, you will know what I mean.
Jude, was the other one I absolutely loved. Growing up in orphanages, being made to feel like a freak because he was so different, from his ears, to his strength and so much more, he felt so lonely all the time. And to finally feel like he found, possibly, the love of his life, only to find HIM with someone else in a compromising position. I hurt for him. Then when his ‘long, lost grandmother’ finds him, he’s thrown into a world, where not only does he not have a single clue about it, he finds the man who is really his soulmate and has to keep him a secret! I would have turn around and ran like fires of you know what were on my heels. Because obviously the feuding family is no picnic either.
And even Roman, growing up knowing what his life is supposed to be, is being robbed of being able to LIVE his life. I don’t know who I felt more for. I do know, I wanted to reach through this book and smack every older adult around them. For hiding things, for making them feel inferior, for their interference and everything else they did. If they would have just rolled with things and let people be, none of this crap would have started to begin with.
It’s a good story though. It really is. I loved every minute of it. I loved the fire and passion of Jude. I loved how Roman found his ground and his place and finally stood for himself. And I love what came after. It’s never a perfect story when you have morons around, but it was perfect for them when they found their way.
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