Book Review: Wed to the Lich by Layla Fae
Wed to the Lich
Series: Arranged Monster Mates #8
Author: Layla Fae
Published: September 13, 2023
Paperback: 208 pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: January 19- February 5, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 3 stars
Book Description:
Liches are almost gone, only a handful of us left. I must marry to keep my race from extinction, yet how? No living female will ever stoop so low as to marry a lich. People fear us. They say we are the harbingers of death, bad luck, rot and decomposition.
In one last bid to carry out my duty, I request a wife through the Temple. She turns out to be a neglected, sickly thing with trembling hands and downcast eyes, seeking an arranged marriage out of despair.
And she’s perfect. Her blushes burn hot, her voice rings with feeling, and her kisses taste like summer. She is life personified, all warmth, light, and sweetness, and I crave her like darkness craves the sun.
But will she sacrifice her warm, beating heart to a creature of death like me?
The Temple, a matchmaking service for monsters, shifters, and aliens, is open for service.
Arranged Monster Mates is a series of novellas written by your favorite paranormal and sci-fi romance Eden Ember, Layla Fae, and Cara Wylde.
Each of these steamy stories has it a possessive male, a heroine ready to sacrifice herself to the beast, plenty of spice, and a happily ever after to curl your toes!
Jessica’s Review:
Some friends and I all decided to swap books and annotate them in 2024 with the intention that everyone gets their books back by Christmas, and these annotated books would be our gifts to each other. Sadly, none of us got our books back by Christmas, but we really tried! Wed to the Lich was one friend’s choice and I would have never picked it up otherwise! I most likely would have not ever heard of it. But I can proudly say that I did read it! I am working on going outside of my usually genres, and we will see what I enjoy versus what I don’t enjoy as much.
Wed to the Lich is an arranged marriage book between and human (May) and an undead monster (Virgil). My thought when I picked up the book is “WHAT is a Lich?” We get both Virgil and May’s point of views in this novel. Both of them are damaged individuals, Virgil is lonely as he is one of the last Lich’s and May suffers severely from Anorexia. In fact they could both be dying from their issues.
At times Virgil was sweet yet possessive and at times kind of creepy. At one point he was watching May sleep and my annotation I wrote mentioned something to do with him being stalkerish like Edward Cullen!
Wed to the Lich is the eighth book in the arranged monster mates series, and I did not read the others. I don’t think you really need to read them unless you want to. All of the books deal with a monster who is searching for a mate who is human.
The book is smutty, and not for me. At times it would be sweet, then Virgil went smutty talking/thinking. It just doesn’t work for me. I’m fine with ‘fade to black’/ closed door romances. Wed to the Lich isn’t that.
There are some serious issues as May is dealing with Anorexia due to the way her former guardian treated her, who was just terrible! You really hate that woman. There is verbal abuse from the guardian. And be forewarned, there is an animal death. It is May seeing how Virgil eats, but it won’t be pleasant to some.
I did enjoy the epilogue, as it ended the story. This is a short novel, just over 200 pages. If you are into smutty monster romances then this series will be for you. I read it and went outside of my box of my usual thrillers/ YA, I did it for my friend! I was the last to read her choice, so I was able to send her book back to her.