Rhapsodic The Bargainer Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Laura Thalassa Susannah Jones Books
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Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear.
Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can get you anything you want...at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.
But for one of his clients, he's never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first it's just a chaste kiss - a single bead's worth - and a promise for more.
For the Bargainer, it's more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that's been awoken.
If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he'll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.
Rhapsodic The Bargainer Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Laura Thalassa Susannah Jones Books
4.5 Stars!Be still my heart... this was an incredible read. Thalassa weaves a story of intimacy, vulnerability, betrayal, and forgiveness between two very flawed souls--Callie, a 23 year old siren and Desmond, the King of Night. We see Callie evolve, leveraging a past of abuse and horror to become the woman we meet at age 23. The flashbacks were very well developed, bringing the reader along in an engaging narrative that had me feeling her pain and routing for her happiness..
And then there's Desmond...oh my. This stud of a guy is immune to Callie's siren gift and takes charge as Callie's protector after deserting her seven years prior (causing all manner of heartbreak). He's a bad boy, that despite the pain he's caused Callie, is someone she still deeply loves. How many times do we do that to ourselves...but we can't help it. At times Des had me thinking "Shade" in Rosamund Hodge's Cruel Beauty.
While this relationship takes center stage, the action moves forward as Des allows Callie to help him solve a mystery, why female fae warriors in the Otherworld (where Des is king) are turning up in comas with live infant children.
****SPOILER****
My absolute favorite quote: "A fairy doesn't show his wings to his betrothed...A fairy shows them to his soulmate."
Oh, be still my heart...
I'll definitely be reading the next installment in The Bargainer series.
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Rhapsodic The Bargainer Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Laura Thalassa Susannah Jones Books Reviews
Rhapsodic is the tale of Callie the Siren, a private investigator who has a secret. She is in debt. A lot of debt. She doesn't owe money but something worse. Favors. As a teen, she called on the Bargainer to help her get out of a very big mess. Lost and alone, she keeps calling on him for company, for companionship, for friendship. As the months go on her wrist is wrapped with more and more beads, showing her debt she owes the Bargainer. Then after one magical night, he's gone. Disappears. She is heartbroken.
Seven years later, he is back to collect his debts.
This was one of those stories that takes you by surprise. From start to finish, this book held my attention. It was magical. It was highly entertaining. There was just enough action to keep me on the edge of my seat, while there was plenty of romance to hold my interest. I will definitely be looking forward to the next book in this series to see how things work out for Callie and Desmond, aka the Bargainer.
I liked the concept of the book, but as several other reviewers stated, something wasn't quite there. I don't know if this is because I just finished two very good books back to back that had multiple plot lines that were put together seamlessly that this book seemed to fall flat, or if it was something more innate to this story.
Generally speaking, I liked the characters and the world seemed interesting. I like stories with heavy romance, so that was a positive here. But I feel like the 'mystery' plot was not well developed, explored, or fulfilled, and there were no real subplots to pull me in. The mystery seemed like more of an afterthought. Some other areas bothered me, and I'll go into those below.
SPOILERS
Another reason I felt it was lacking was that there were a few instances where the main character just seemed dense. For instance, when there are no sufficient subplots that would point in any other direction, it's not a big reveal that this person who has kidnapped and has hundreds of partially paralyzed women in cells is the main bad guy and not just some other random bad person. The main character only figuring this out at a minimum 20 pages (read on , not actually sure how many pages) after she's been kidnapped brought me so far out of the story that I literally had to stop reading for a few minutes at the ridiculousness of it.
Eli pissed me off, part 1. He breaks into her house, doesn't listen to her, endangers her with his werewolf-ness, and then begins an amorous encounter when she clearly tells him to stop and go away. The only way she can get him to stop is by using magic, and then he has the gall to be pissed off about it and put her on a 'most wanted list' for using her power to stop him? This is treated as okay because he is an alpha, and he's defended even after this on several occasions. Yeah, no.
Eli pissed me off, part 2. He's only okay with the end of their relationship when he sees Desmond's wings. Seriously, not when the person you're dating tells you it's over? Not when she uses magic to keep away from you? Not when she clearly chooses another person? No, when the other guy shows up and is like, yeah, she's my soulmate.
By no means do I think it's wrong to show how certain people are - Eli's behavior is practically normal. But not to acknowledge it and to play off that he's one of the good guys with no repercussions is just irritating. Especially in a book that has so many female victims of sexual violence where it *is* clearly stated that it's a problem.
Des calling in one of his debts to stop Callie from drinking. They'd barely mentioned that her drinking was a problem, there were really no lasting results indicating that she was having a problem not drinking alcohol, Desmond introduced her to drinking in the first place, and Desmond drinks in front of her several times after. Overall, it seemed like Callie's alcoholism (if that's what it was) could have been played up more, or should have been set to the side altogether. As is, Desmond just seems like a controlling jerk.
Desmond never really seemed like the bad person or the badass he was played up to be. It was all tell and no show. I'm not counting the teacher incident.
DNF - made it to 31% (end of chapter 9) before throwing in the towel.
I don’t know how to review this. I really wanted to like this, the cover art was awesome & lured me in, to even skip it to the top of my TBR list, when I bought this (for free on ). There was potential, but somehow, it was lost. To start, the editing/proof work is horrible, it can ruin even a good story, but in a mediocre story, it just becomes un-readable. Too many pauses spent backtracking to make sense of a sentence, & disrupting the flow. Then the flipping back & forth from past to present every chapter is a huge turn off. That jump to the past in chapter 10 was where I said enough is enough, I’d end up destroying my iPad if I have to do one more jump to the past (even if it does give insight into what happened to bring the story to the point it’s at in the present). There has to be a better way than chapter surfing from past to present. Then there’s Callypso, she’s too stupid to be a a good heroine character. I hated her. The only thing I did like about her, was her using her Siren powers for good instead of evil. Then the “Bargainer”, aka Desmond Flynn. A contradiction in itself wrapped up in an enigma, a fae that does very much remind me of Rhys from “A Court of Mist and Fury”, a little too much for my tastes. Callypso keeps saying he’s a bad guy, does horrible things, well at 31%, I didn’t see it. He seemed like a pretty nice guy with Callypso. I didn’t see anything bad, other than the naughty innuendos he flirted with Callypso & Callypso saying he’s bad. So no, I won’t continue with the series.
4.5 Stars!
Be still my heart... this was an incredible read. Thalassa weaves a story of intimacy, vulnerability, betrayal, and forgiveness between two very flawed souls--Callie, a 23 year old siren and Desmond, the King of Night. We see Callie evolve, leveraging a past of abuse and horror to become the woman we meet at age 23. The flashbacks were very well developed, bringing the reader along in an engaging narrative that had me feeling her pain and routing for her happiness..
And then there's Desmond...oh my. This stud of a guy is immune to Callie's siren gift and takes charge as Callie's protector after deserting her seven years prior (causing all manner of heartbreak). He's a bad boy, that despite the pain he's caused Callie, is someone she still deeply loves. How many times do we do that to ourselves...but we can't help it. At times Des had me thinking "Shade" in Rosamund Hodge's Cruel Beauty.
While this relationship takes center stage, the action moves forward as Des allows Callie to help him solve a mystery, why female fae warriors in the Otherworld (where Des is king) are turning up in comas with live infant children.
****SPOILER****
My absolute favorite quote "A fairy doesn't show his wings to his betrothed...A fairy shows them to his soulmate."
Oh, be still my heart...
I'll definitely be reading the next installment in The Bargainer series.
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