The ultimate love story to readers and stories

Wow, just wow. I love all books by Kerri, but this has got to be the best one yet. It’s such a unique story and a true love story to readers and stories. It’s so much fun to read all those references to tropes and love interests and just everything bookish.

We follow Lore and Prince Sloth, who somehow wind up together on a hunt for The Liber Noctum. They end up in Somnia and go through several trials in different settings. I won’t say anymore because I’ll spoil things and I don’t want to do that. Just know that the worldbuilding is very elaborate and very well done, there are plenty of plot twists and also lots of character growth. Oh and did I mention Slow Burn, only one bed, who did this to you, touch him and die, and my personal favorite Grunpy vs Sunshine. This book truly has it all! So go on and read it! You won’t regret it.

Some of my favorite quotes:
🦥 Anything worth having required hard work and sacrifice or else it wouldn’t be that valuable.
🦥 I was a being forged with a singular purpose l: to kill, and nothing more.
🦥 My house was one without mercy, and I aimed to remind those foolish enough to cross me just how violent I could be.
📖 He’s layered you snob. He lives by his own moral code, killing the worst of society
📖 I was doomed to never be a main character in real life for one insurmountable reason, I had no tragic backstory
📖 He moved with purpose, with singular focus. An apex predator locked into his prey
🦥 Soon they’d discover they’d gone hunting for a lamb only to find they’d cornered a lion
🦥 She was like the sun, having a bright disposition, but still capable of a violent burn
📖 Dreaming of embarking on a fantasy adventure was thrilling from the safety of my room, but I was quickly discovering that living it was a bit of an nightmare
📖Is that a dagger in your chest or are you just happy to see me?
🦥 Guard your heart as well as your mind, Lore. Or it will be the undoing of us all
📖 There was nothing I loved more than fully immersing myself in a story. It felt as intrinsic to me as breathing it gave me peace and joy. A release whenever life got too stressful. Books were my one true love
🦥 You don’t look pretty. You look like complete and utter ruination, Lore
🦥 She made the mundane magic
📖 Wonderful. He was a gardener from hell with a bondage kink
📖 I didn’t prefer solitude. I was no damsel in distress. I was no warrior either. But I was a reader and a damned voracious one to boot. I read everything I could get my greedy little hand on, and my mind was a twisted pit of chaos waiting to be unleashed.
📖 He was looking at me like I was his favorite story, and he was eager to read every word on the page
🦥 She was a perfect nightmare
☠️ You, the biggest skeptic of romance, the one who’s waxed poetic on the efficacy of logic over love, have been struck down by fate
🦥 She was my ending, my beginning. My favorite story for the rest of eternity
🦥 You were made to be worshipped. And I intend to take my time
📖 Life was about choices. And choosing the light, choosing love and hope instead of fear and power, that would never change for me