From This Night

by L. E. Bryce

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Title	From This Night
Author	L. E. Bryce
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Tags	ebook, M/M, erotic romance, historical fantasy
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Your review	LE Bryce's writing is beautiful. Her characters grab a reader's heartstrings, and the setting is wonderfully exotic yet oddly familiar. I have enjoyed a couple of the authors other stories with her signature Middle Eastern flavor, and something about this one called to me. Only after I finished it, I wish I had never read it. This story had an unhappy ending. A really unhappy ending as far as I was concerned, and the story was also sad to begin with. Suryo has been promised as a "bride" to Alasson because of a foolish oath their fathers made before they were born - while drunk no less. Slight spoiler ALERT: As a result, they must marry for a year and then Suryo will be forced into the priesthood and Alasson will gain Suryo's birthright. The men obviously develope feelings for one another, only love didn't conquor all and I felt cheated. The epilogue, which follows up 2 decades later simply rubbed salt into the wound. After I finished, I thought about this story a long time. I felt so sorry for the two lovers, but especially Suryo. His life was literally destroyed, and that is not the way I want to feel after reading what I thought was romance. If you enjoy Bryce's stories of unlikely love overcoming great obstacles, you won't find that here. If you want realism, this story has it in spades. Though I didn't like this story, I highly recommend readers try her other work, such as "The Golden Lotus."
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Publication	Phaze Books (2008) e-book, 72 pages
Publication date	2008
ISBN	9781606590768 / 1606590766
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Summary 1	From This Night by L. E. Bryce (2008)
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Number of copies	1
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