Bound by Fate

When Fresia reached out to me if I wanted to read Bound by Fate a dark fantasy novel, after reading the blurb I was very excited to dive into this book. It took me a while to finish the book because I myself was all over the place, but after I sat down for it I finished it very quickly.

I needed a while to get into the story. I really had a love and hate relationship with the characters and I while the blurb sounded amazing, the story itself took quite a bit of time to let me know where it was going. I loved that the chapters were on the short side, so it was easy for me to just finish one more chapter every time. What I also loved was the dual-POV I really love getting in more then one head while reading and getting more of the motivations people do stuff they do!

Fresia has a nice writingstyle, the worldbuilding was done great. Letting it take place in places like Ghent, Tienen, Leuven and Diest. The dutch language coming through was a nice extra!

Bound by fate is a book with a lot of potential for sure. And I had a couple of moments where I laughed but overall it took me too long to really get into the story and I didn't felt an enormous connection with the characters. Being it a dark fantasy I had hoped more of the fantasy and the darkess, then the drama that was put on page between the characters.

Fresia Lotus thank you so much for letting me ARC read this book.