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  • What Lies Beyond the Veil

  • The Of Flesh & Bone Series, Book 1
  • Written by: Harper L. Woods
  • Narrated by: Ava Lucas
  • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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What Lies Beyond the Veil

Written by: Harper L. Woods
Narrated by: Ava Lucas
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Once, we’d worshipped them as Gods.

For nearly 400 years, the Veil has protected us from the Fae of Alfheimr. In their absence, our lives have shifted from decadence and sin to survival and virtue under the guidance of the New Gods. I’ve spent my entire life tending to the gardens next to the boundary between our worlds, drawn to the shimmering magic like a moth to the flame.

Then, we died on their swords.

All of that changes the day the Veil shatters, unleashing the fae upon our world once again. The magic of faerie marks those of us they mean to take, but the Mist Guard protecting Nothrek will kill us all before they let the fae have us. There’s no choice but to flee everything I’ve ever known, not if I want to live to see my twenty-first birthday as a free woman.

Now, they’ll claim what’s theirs.

But before they capture me, Caelum saves me from the Wild Hunt. Fae-marked and on the run, he is able to fight back in ways I only dream of. From tentative alliance to all-consuming passion, our bond strengthens as the fae close in and evil lurks ever nearer. With my life on the line, he is everything I shouldn’t dare to want and a distraction I can’t afford. I can’t seem to stay away, not even with something greater on the line.

My heart.

©2022 Harper L. Woods & Adelaide Forrest (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

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  • JT
  • 2023-03-20

So much potential, but fell flat.

The beginning is great, and the author does a good job of world building with a unique fae element. Literally the moment the romantic interest is introduced it falls apart. Suddenly the author starts rushing everything and practically telling the reader what to feel and when. The pairing seems so forced and the *secret* is so obvious it leaves little to the imagination.
The male love interest becomes really cringey and possessive and not in the way that you can often get away with in smutty romance like this. Several times while listening to this in my car, at the gym, on a walk I would roll my eyes and literally say, “ugh” out loud because it was so uncomfortable. Smut scenes were good, but there is 0 actual connection between our two main characters and came off pretty cringey most of the time.
There is so much potential but all in all this was a let down.

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Was looking forward to this but….

I was intrigued by this book the story was just meh and I can’t stand a female character who comes off sting willed but ends up submissive and although I like a good live scene this was too graphic for my tastes

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I didn’t like any of it

The story bored me to tears and the narration of the males voice was hard to listen to.

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Atrocious

If you want a book full of sex and poor plot, it is for you.

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Recommended to Me

I was hoping for so much more here - the narrator was good and had a fantastic cadence while reading. The story plot line was not great, super sad to use a credit on this.

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Awesome

I really liked it. The narrator was good. Well written can’t wait for more and to see how this plays out

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  • HA
  • 2023-03-02

On the fence

I enjoyed the story line until the chauvinistic side of one of the main characters came out. I am going to read the next one hoping the next one calms down after the turn of events at the end.

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Good, but could’ve been so much more

Narrator was quite good, story is good too but overall I feel like it had potential to be so much more! I would’ve enjoyed more wolrd building and more suspense (?). I feel like pretty much every reader could tell the big punch very early on wich was disappointing. Fun read but nothing to go crazy about imo!

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Good start but dwindles

It was an action packed start for the first half of the book which captivated my attention. Unfortunately, the story started to dwindle and became repetitive. The protagonist weakened and became whiny. The male lead was controlling in a way that did not feel empowering but rather made the female lead submissive. While the second book might redeem this flaw, I am not motivated to read it.

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Hollow Characters

I really wanted to like this book. The story had potential but the character development was lacking.

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  • Mother Of Cats
  • 2022-10-25

A YA book for YA audiences

When I read reviews and i see “if you like — or — the. This book is for you!” I usually stay clear and don’t waste a credit. If a story is exactly like other stories, then I already know the “strong independent” lead will be annoying, is young, and is super angry all the time. The special Not Like Other Girls type. For whatever reason I bought this book and I made it to almost half when I realized that it’s familiar. Oh yah! I’ve read a million books JUST LIKE this book before. And I hated them. Authors really need to stop writing women like preteen girls going after a man thousands of years older than them. We can have an experienced women who is worldly and still get the same outcome?? So I don’t know why I’m constantly being lied to about these “strong women”. Also, can we please redefine the word “spicy”? If something is SPICY, I expect to read SEX. Not high school drama of “I love him I hate him”. That’s not spicy, that’s irritating. This is a PG 13 book intended for teens. Stop lying.

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  • JessicaCreel
  • 2022-07-04

Original but annoying

I did not love this book. The production was absolutely phenomenal, but Astraya is an idiot. She is selfish from the getgo and throughout, and I find her hard to relate with. "How dare everyone think I am just pretty!?!" Give me a break. And her relationship with Kiram is so annoying. "Oh I hate him, but I need to have him. Oh I'm jealous, but I want him to leave me alone." And then the dialogue with him and her inner dialog are both puke. To top it off, he directly asks her if she wants the (very obvious) truth, and she straight out says no. And then she is dEvASta..staTED when she finally learns it. Estraya isn't strong, she isn't independent, and she isn't likeable. And Kiram is just gross and possessive.

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  • Kiya
  • 2022-10-14

No No No

Really harmeful tropes, felt like the entire part I read was filler episode, I stopped at chapter 16/38 because I couldn't stomach the Male Love interest calling the MC female "Little one"

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  • Victoria
  • 2022-09-27

Blood and Ash combined with ACOTAR

I knew going into this that it was going to be very vulgar, was warned from previous reviews, but I didn’t think that it was going to be as vulgar as it was. I love a steamy scene as much as the next girl, but the over-usage of the word “fu*k”, “pus*y” and “co*k” had me fast forwarding through some scenes.

*some unanswered spoilers*

Given that, the story line was very interesting. It had a good development in the beginning, a good foundation with an interesting villain off the start. But once Caelum came into the picture, the story line because rushed and derailed. There were a lot of unexplained parts of the story that were very important that were overlooked. For example, why Estrella’s brother was so adamant about her not going to the Fae. Did her family know that she was on her last reincarnation life? Also, the development of the relationship between Caelum and Estrella also seemed very rushed and forced. It had me sitting back at times and saying oh, well this doesn’t seem that realistic.

The performance of this audio book was excellent. Ava Lucas brought a wide arrange of husky sounding people that paired perfectly with the storyline. Her adaptation of Caelum’s voice was perfect and still left Estrella’s feminine.

I would actually recommend the book to someone who is looking for another series like B&A and ACOTAR. But know going into this that similarity between the worlds of Blood and Ash and ACOTAR, even ToG, was startling. I will be reading the second, and third, to see if these questions are answered and if the story is developed more.

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  • Rachyl Carr
  • 2022-08-29

Ehhhh 😒

I kept reading because I wanted to know how it ends. I stopped reading because the cringe was just way too much. The cringe to curiosity level was off and I stopped about half way through. Has great potential and if you can overlook the cringe then it’s a decent book. I however could not make it 😭

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  • Isabella Roza
  • 2023-01-26

Just horrible

Don’t waist a credit in this if you have any self dignity. It’s just horrible. I think this is a male writer honestly the trash in this book is a way a narcissist gaslighting control freak is supposed to be the main character. The girl starts strong then quickly becomes a quivering child who says things no woman would to make his character look like this alpha man. This has to be a male writer.

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  • Doug
  • 2022-11-17

Unconvincing

I'm not one to dislike a book or characters based on harmful tropes, quite the opposite, those red flags are usually green for me. Give me toxic and controlling anyday. But the way Kylem is written is just annoying. Possessive in an annoying way, not sexy. Both MC's come across very shallow and one dimensional. The spicey scenes are just bland. I managed to finish this title but I'm not going to continue the series. Shame because the first part of the book before the love interest was introduced really grabbed my attention.

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  • Monica
  • 2023-02-10

TRIGGER WARNING - P3D0 VIBES

The narration was good, no hate to Ava Lucas. But WHY would Harper think that having the MLI call the MC "little one" even during intimate scenes is beyond me. It was SO GROSS to listen to and I honestly don't understand how anyone can move past that.

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  • VegasTwilightMom
  • 2023-01-24

Don’t waste your time

This was an awful book. I thought it was going to be so great and it just wasn’t. How she wanted not to be owned to letting herself get owned by a guy she only knew for a short time. The control factor was just way to much and the characters were awful.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2023-01-08

Underwhelming

The plot is weak at best, the characters are unlikeable, and their relationship is nonexistent. Instead of enemies to lovers, it was just strangers to lovers.. like in an instant. The possessiveness was just annoying. I said “ew" after approximately EVERYTHING he said to her. Plot twist/cliffhanger was very predictable and bland. The authors language when she talks to him is just so toxic, saying how he terrified her and how she couldn't escape but also claimed she was in love with him?? It was giving me whiplash. This was a totally LUST driven story and had no emotional development. The characters were flat, even side characters. Instead of tasteful curiosity, I was just confused more than anything about the world and rules of magic. I really just hated the main love interest and how he treated her. The main female character also wasn't enjoyable to read and really did not change throughout the book. Don't think I can force myself to read the second one.

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  • Client d'Amazon
  • 2023-01-28

à eviter

Très déçue. On m'avait vendu un monde fantastique complexe avec un cliffhanger à la fin. Au final j'ai eu une fanfiction de bas niveau sans fondement ou presque et une fin tellement prévisible que vous aurez envi de crier sur l'héroïne tout au long du livre pour ne pas s'en rendre compte plus tôt... passez votre chemin!

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