Welcome to Sarah’s Reading Reviews

Having relatively recently finished a degree in English and History the number of books I read for fun has significantly diminished. I have always loved sinking into a good book and being whisked away to a new land but something about being told to read destroys the magic slightly.

However, I now stare at my bookshelves briming with interesting stories and I am starting to feel the draw once again of blocking out the world behind those paper walls. So, I have decided that I will begin reading and begin telling you all about the books I read. Even if not a single one of you cares about my thoughts, knowing I want to tell you them regardless should be enough motivation to convince myself to turn away from the ease of the remote control.

Around the beginning of the year, I read what I believed to be an advert like any other on my social media, except this advert went on for three whole chapters and by the end I was hooked. I couldn’t leave it at that and so miraculously I managed to find the entire book online and I did not stop reading for two days, even sneaking a few pages on loo breaks at work.

The book was called Married to the Devil’s Son and featured demons and witches and princesses and love and sex and all the tropes of dark romance fan fictions, but I couldn’t put it down. As a teenager I was obsessed with dark romance and fallen angels and demons and even at 22 this book had me itching to read it all at once. I bought into the supernatural like it could have been reality and I was invested in the romances of the main characters as well as those around them.

The premise is that prince Lucian (rumoured to be the Devil’s son) marries Hazel, a rather sheltered princess, and treats her with love and respect. I have noticed that novels set in the middle age-ish time period tend to set the scene that someone is a nice guy by having them not rape the bride on their wedding night and so of course Lucian gives Hazel her space. Once the king dies however all of the brothers must fight to the death to see who becomes the next king, and they all, of course, hate and distrust Lucian due to his potential evil but also his goodness and strength.

Accidentally reading this book reminded me of a feeling of excitement that I hadn’t felt in a long time, an excitement to get back to my bed to read and everything else in life was a pain. It is a feeling that I wish to replicate more often and as such I will be ransacking my bookshelves and reading every type of genre going: fiction and non-fiction, historical, futuristic, romance and thriller.

To get the ball rolling I have bought into popular culture and purchased Bridgerton books 1, 2 and 3 (although 2 and 3 haven’t been published yet with the new cover). I will read the first and give you my thoughts on how it compares to the utterly fantastic Netflix special! If you have any suggestions for a future book however email me your thoughts