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Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile. Everything was fine until the notorious Crystal Druid showed up to hunt a powerful fae that’s leaving a trail of dead bodies in its wake\u2014bodies that the local ex-con, me, will be blamed for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To save my own hide, I offer to help him. But with every clash of temper between us, something inside me cracks a little more. The closer we get to our target\u2014and the closer I get to the guarded Crystal Druid\u2014the more my missing memories loom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fae killer is far deadlier than I imagined\u2014but so is the boy I forgot. And the only question now is which one will destroy me first.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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a picture of me \/ a portrait of the main character<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annette Marie is so fucking good. I borrowed the Demonized<\/em> series like… last year? From the library. And I’ve been dying to read more because I was so hooked, I bought the Demonized<\/em> series ages ago. There’s so many books she’s written that I couldn’t decide which series to get next and well, the library just added the first in the Unveiled<\/em> series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’m like, fuckit, I’m going to collect every book that she has written.<\/em> I will dedicate a shelf to her writing. Demonized<\/em> was such a lovely slowburn and now this is an excellent feral asshole x overly nice guy who totally fucked her over who (obviously, to me) are childhood lovers<\/em> and\u2014 listen, dude, Annette Marie is locked in a battle against her own characters going, “YOU’LL DO THIS IF I HAVE TO MAKE YOU!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because she lets the characters develop and isn’t afraid to let her stories mix. It might turn off some people, but for me it’s a lot of fun. It’s the sort of thing that gets me excited to meet other characters, I guess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I just really enjoyed a feral girl\/former murderer being uncomfortable about being kinda murder-horny. My first thought was she was gonna boink her familiar, but we’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*I almost added the “Shortest Way to the Heart” trope because in truth, the shortest way to the heart IS through the chest…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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