💕🧪The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy 🧪💕

• Brigitte Knightley

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This is a from a well-known Dramione fanfic writer, and this story evolved from one of those. Osric Mordaunt is a member of the Fyren Order of assasins. When he develops a serious illness, he has no choice but to turn to an enemy Order, healing. There ensues a lot of bribery, blackmail and other illicit activities in order to recruit the help of healer Aurienne Fairhaim – much to her own contempt and disdain.

Aurienne read as quite one-dimensional to me. Aside from being uptight, neat and an unapproachable Woman in STEM, she didn’t really have much personality. However, I really enjoyed her and Osric’s banter, and their relationship (can I even call it that?) CARRIED this book. Let’s normalise the main characters hating each other for the entirety of Book One – if you’re someone who is constantly begging authors to bring back yearning, bring back slow burn, this is for you.

The humour wasn’t personally for me, although I can definitely understand this being an attractive part of the book for a lot of people. It was definitely unusual and a breath of fresh air, to inject such humour into fantasy, a genre that typically doesn’t see a lot of it.

Something that bugged me was the world building, or the lack thereof. It seemed to be set in some alternate universe of London, judging from the vernacular, but little else would ever be explained. Had there been slightly less page-time spent on the humour and the banter and a bit more on the worldbuilding, I don’t think this would have been an issue.

Overall, I had a few complaints, but I will still be continuing the series, because I am invested in Osric and Aurienne. I feel like I could very easily be swayed if perhaps the worldbuilding is stronger and dwelled upon further in the sequel.

Have you read any dramione fanfic? Are you excited for the ones being traditionally published this year?