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To the few people out here that I know have read the Villains and Virtues series,

if you have not already read the Xander spinoff Bound and Tide please for the love of God do it! Read it! I don't want to give too much away but I will say there is something just heart meltingly sweet about seeing Xander go from " I'm gonna kidnap a literal baby and keep it hostage so I can corrupt it" to "what kind of coward hurts a child"

I admittedly did not read Bound to Fall (I think that's what it's called) because that character was only ever a brief mention in the og trilogy so I just didn't really care but I did order it now so I can read it because I just love this world and this author. The Author did say that it should be read before Bound and Tide even though it is set after Bound and Tide but oh well. I've made my choices lol.

[sjayyarts]

wips of my oc i will never finish. I actually quite liked how they were turning out, i’m just lazy aha…

[dawllick]

Celeste from “Bound to Fall” by @akcaggiano

Tomorrow I am busy BUT SUNDAY I’ll add Reeve 💕💕

[thecasualbookreviewer]

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Bound to fall, A.k. Caggiano

Summary:

Celeste Delacroix’s sister is dead. This is unfortunate…sort of. But it’s also an opportunity to return to the realm of Eiren and begin anew, if noxscura will allow her.

Cursed with dark magic, living virtuously has always eluded Celeste, but she’s determined to right the wrongs she wrought in the sleepy village of Briarwyke and maybe even find her ever after, happiness unrequired and, as she sees it, undeserved. But darkness accompanies Celeste as keenly as clumsiness and shame, and when she accidentally releases a new evil on Briarwyke, she must find a divine source of magic to destroy it.

Sir Reeve, Holy Knight of Valcord, is one such divine source—not to mention incredibly handsome—and as luck would have it, already intent on vanquishing the evil that plagues Briarwyke. Unfortunately, he believes that evil to be a noxscura-wielding witch who has desecrated his faith’s temple: Celeste herself. Abyss-bent on fulfilling his destiny, Reeve’s virtue and beliefs have never wavered because the world is simple, after all—there are those who are good, and those who are evil, and evil must be destroyed.

But what happens when a perceived evil requests assistance in defeating an even greater threat? Can Celeste and Reeve band together to save Briarwyke, or will their contempt for one another be their downfall?

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Bound to Fall is a standalone spinoff of Villains & Virtues, a completed trilogy that follows the exploits of Damien and Amma. This book takes place in the spring, after the events of Villains & Virtues, and does contain spoilers for the series including character death. However, Bound to Fall focuses on a new couple, Celeste and Reeve, who we did not meet in the original trilogy, and can be read as a standalone story.

Review:

This book took a lot more time to get through than the other books in this universe, but that doesn't mean it wasn't good. The story felt a lot much slower, and it was all set in a single town with at times made it feel like it wasn't moving along at all, however the characters are pretty interesting and make you want to come back and continue reading their story.

Celeste and Reeve are two characters that at first I didn't see myself liking much, but by the end I had a great appreciation of both, and of course the author has a great balance of humor and serious moments.

I wouldn't quite call this a cozy fantasy, because the stakes are quite high, but i think for the most part it might fit the genre.

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Bound to Fall by A.K. Caggiano - blurrypetals review

originally posted jan. 31, 2025 - ★★★★☆

When I read the main three books of this series last summer and fall, there was something familiar about the story structure that kept scratching the back of my brain the whole way through.

It wasn't until now, when I've played enough Baldur's Gate 3 to equal at least 20 books since I read Eclipse of the Crown, I finally realized these books feel like reading someone's fun D&D campaign. And I mean that in the best way!

These are so charming and fun. I loved the goodest boy paladin energy Reeve gave off and Celeste was so sweet and entertaining, just a cinnamon roll who deeply needed love and protection.

This was a great read and I'm looking forward to reading Bound and Tide sometime soon, too!

[eccentric-ocean]

late may/early june reading list

Bound to Fall by A.K. Caggiano

This is a spinoff of Villains and Virtues and technically book #4 in the series. Having invested in a non-amazon e-reader, I couldn't get a hold of it in a digital format. I believe the author self-publishes through amazon? So, after much pondering, I got the paperback. And I was not disappointed. I loved it. It's a story about opposites who turn out to have loneliness in common, the way AK Caggiano has mastered them. And we get cozy little (magical) town vibes, as well as a backstory on a villain from a different book. Don't actually recall why I knocked off half a star and gave it 4.5, might've been the smut I wasn't vibing with or some of the magic I had a hard time following.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) #1 and #2 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Very much here for WWX and LZ, which means the big chunks of story where either of them is missing are looooong.

Boyfriend Material and Husband Material by Alexis Hall

I promise I have not set out to read A. Hall's entire body of work this year, although it looks like it. In my defense, I already know there's some of his books I will not be reading, just cuz they're not my cup of tea. But that's already 5 books of his I've read in 2 months. And I've enjoyed all of them, some A LOT. Boyfriend Material is um... about polar opposites falling in love. Do you sense a theme in my reading lately? Anyway it's funny and lovely and gay. And the characters are complex. They get even more so with Husband Material, which is all about whether marriage is for everybody. Whether there is a "right" way to be gay. What happens when your shitty parent dies. etc.

I confess Husband Material was less fun than the first book. Simply cuz there is that constant tension around marriage/weddings, until it finally breaks at the end. Still worth a read for more Lucien and Oliver. Some of the cast of friends felt more cartoonish than others but meh, I still enjoyed them.

BTW Lucien just cannot be a sexy name to me, as a french person, even tho I could tell Oliver was supposed to say it sexily. It stopped being popular sometime in the 1950s/1960s so it's bringing up thoughts of someone's great-uncle for me. I had to fight this throughout both novels lol. But at least the author had mercy on me and DID NOT write smut in these.

What I'll read next:

Must finish Veiller sur elle sometime.

Orwell's Roses is next on the TBR. Unless I go for fiction instead, in which in case Yulin Kuang's debut novel How to End a Love Story is a strong contender.

My 2024 storygraph chart currently looks something like this: