Date Of Review: December 24, 2023
Review Left On GoodReads:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6027851700 

A Soul To Keep

Author: Opal Reyne
Narrator: Wolfgang Milliken & Elise Hoffman
Started: December 21, 2023
Finished: December 23, 2023
Genre:  fantasy, romance
Length: 18 hours
Part Of A Series: yes
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61208877-a-soul-to-keep 

Review:

This is not first time I have read this type of book, but it is the first time I've actually liked one.  I actually dreamt about this book.  The plot was intriguing.  Romance & sex where major components of the book, with a story as well.  Literary porn with a plot.  While it irritated we when they didn't give each other time to explain a few times, it went to show just how new this was to them and how they where will to learn how to function as a couple.  First loves usually don't last, except in fantasy books.  

I am also really happy that the author didn't do a typical beauty & the beast ending where Orpheus turned human.  Though, Reia & Orpheus plan on giving his brother humans to help his brother gain his humanity.

Goodreads Description:

All Reia ever wanted was freedom.

Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.

However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.

All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion.

Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.

He'd thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.

But will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever?