We’re celebrating the release of Catalina Matei’s fantasy, The Imminent Trials of Quietus!
The Imminent Trials of Quietus (Vials of Fate Book 1)
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Genre: Romantasy/Mythical Creatures
– Dragons
– Friends to lovers
– Banter
– Strong FMC
– Deadly mental trials
– Hidden truths
– Fated lovers
– Dual POV
– Magical creatures
– One bed/Cave
In a world that long lost its moral axis, free will was the chain that tied a God’s vengeance to his entertainment.
With nothing but hope to keep her dark thoughts afloat, Tiadola waited for centuries for the preordained trials that would end her life to begin. But nothing could have prepared her for the moment they were set in motion by encountering the dragon compelled to hunt her.
When the stranger she thought the dragon had sent after her quickly becomes her friend instead, the lines between want and need become a blur as they embark together on a journey towards her imminent trials.
Caught between her desire to continue living in order to save the human realms and the mental warfare that the trials would entail, would she be able to become the first of her kind to win?
My thoughts: I really like dragons but I didn’t like the dragon in this. He’s compelled to hunt down and essentially psychically torture Tiadola to death, and he seems to find it very amusing. What Tia has to go through, in their mental battles, designed to kill her, is cruel and brutal.
There is a cute baby dragon too, and she was very sweet, but the old dragon is not. More cute baby dragon content please!
It’s also a very spicy romance too as Tia and her “stranger” fall hard for one another and with nothing to lose, as Tia is pretty sure she’ll be dead soon, they set to making the most of it. As one of my friend’s said about another book “there’s a lot of bonking going on!”
I found the politics and the different species a bit confusing to get my head round, I’m still not entirely sure what Made and Born means, but hopefully in the next book that will be expanded on more as change comes to the kingdom on the heels of war.
Triggers/CW:
Violence, existential angst, loss, death and sexually explicit content.
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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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