Spellbound

An Enemies to Lovers Fantasy Romance (Embracing Darkness Collection)

By: Rebecca L. Garcia

Narrated by: Krystal Hammond

A dark and twisted fantasy stand-alone romance where hate and love collide in a world filled with snarky witches and vengeful gods. Perfect for fans of To Kill a Kingdom and Kingdom of the Wicked.

Grieving being torn from her beloved sister, who remained behind in the human kingdom, Elle makes it her life purpose to become a keeper in her cursekeeper coven.

But this calling won’t be an easy one. The magic possessed by her small coven of four casts them as outsiders throughout the kingdom. Yet when witches are found murdered in the woods, the cursekeepers quickly become the town’s only hope.

Many believe the murders are the work of a god. An old one returned in search of vengeance. Elle, on the other hand, suspects Viktor, the new warlock to town, is somehow linked to the violent deaths. However, his agenda doesn’t stop there.

Infiltrating her coven.

Charming everyone around him.

Threatening her plans to become a keeper.

This rivalry quickly becomes personal.

When the truth behind the murders surfaces, Elle finds herself thrust into a dangerous new world, trapped between twisted hearts and terrifying beings. With the victims piling up, she must decide who to trust and who to protect before it’s too late.

©2021 Rebecca Garcia (P)2021 Rebecca Garcia

Good book, interesting voice over

The book is really captivating. I didn’t want to stop listening and finished it in one day. The voice actress through me off sometimes because she would randomly speak in a southern accent or start speaking like a golem out of nowhere

Finished it

I don’t always finish everything and I did finish this one so it must have kept me relatively entertained till the end. But as I got closer and closer to the end, I started to realize that there was some real depth missing. For one thing, the book starts off with Elle’s powers manifesting at a young age, and then she hardly ever uses her powers in her adulthood. Like hardly ever. Like even at crucial moments. I just kept waiting for her to kickass, and I’m still waiting. I am wondering, is this really a standalone? Because I still feel like the climax, the revelation, the character truly coming into her own…. never really happened. I also love the tortured hero trope, but Elle and Raiden’s relationship did not do it for me. Again, it lacked conviction and substance. And literally the same back and forth happened for like 2-3 hours between the two characters at the end. “He loves me; he loves me not”. It got repetitive and slightly cringeworthy. The sex scenes, while I actually prefer a little graphic language, seemed out of place in this book and felt meh. I do think the concept was good; the supporting characters were good, and overall the narration was pretty decent. So it’s okay. Entertaining, but I’d you are looking for something that really digs its claws into you, this may not be it.

great read.

rebbecca is so good at writing stories that pull you into other worlds.
16 and older there is language and sexual content .
this was a great story to listen to I got it on audible but also in hardcover.
narration was good even though in a few spots a southern drawl came out.

ehh

it takes a while to get into. and the narrator is TERRIBLE with accents and male voices.
You can tell by the vocabulary that some characters are supposed to have accents. and she does a very poor job at doing them, if she does them at all, because she often forgets to. not to mention her noticeable lisp.

Enemies to Lovers Fantasy Romance

Spellbound by Rebecca L. Garcia is an enemies to lovers fantasy romance that I listened to on audio narrated by Krystal Hammond. The book is part of the Embracing Darkness Collection and can be read as a standalone.

This is the first book of Rebecca's that I have read, and it definitely won't be my last. I was pulled in from the first chapter and couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next. I really enjoyed the relationship that bloomed between Elle and Raiden.

I can't wait for the next book in the collection Heart Of A Witch to be released on audio.

Krystal did an amazing job on the narration. I really enjoyed that she used different tones/voices for each character. She really brought the story to life. I look forward to listening to more of her work in the future.

I would recommend this book if you like fantasy romances or enemies to lovers romance.