Item: Rhapsodic
Rating: 5.00
Author: stacey_is_sassy

by Laura Thalassa

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear.

Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He’s a man who can get you anything you want... at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.

But for one of his clients, he’s never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first it’s just a chaste kiss—a single bead’s worth—and a promise for more.

For the Bargainer, it’s more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that’s been awoken.

If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he’ll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.

I think I heard the Siren's song...

It's only my second story by Laura Thalassa, but I think I'm in love. With her words...not her...that sounds weird but BOOK NERDS UNITE...it's author love, not stalker love. OK, that's probably a bit of a dodgy start to a review. It's Saturday night, hubby bought me a bottle of champers to celebrate Harry and Meggsies wedding, so I'm FLYING!!

The wedding stuff hasn't started yet and I'm one glass down, and I finished this AWESOME story. Seriously, Laura Thalassa has MAD SKILLS!! I absolutely loved Rhapsodic, but I am not going to tell you anything about it. I think you should experience it without any preconceived ideas. I started listening without even reading the blurb and I think the journey was better for it.

OK, I'll give you a little hint at it's awesomeness. He has tatts wears leather pants and band t-shirts. Oh, and he also fixes your problems...at a cost. She kicks butt in a ...look into my eyes and follow my command... SIREN, kind of way. There is NOTHING better than a heroine who uses her naughty powers of seduction to manipulate baddies to do her will.

So, the story is bloody brilliant, but do you know what made my experience even better? The narrator!! Susannah Jones (narrator of Rock Chicks) is one of my very favourite narrators to listen to. She has a very easy voice to listen to and also does one of the BEST male voices around. She even manages to sound sexy. Pure talent!! How many chicks do you know who could put on a male voice...AND...sound sexy?

Anyways...I FRIGGIN LOVED IT!!

Thank you, and have a lovely day.

If you see this review, please tell me what you thought of Meggsies dress. I loved Kate's but I think Megan's will be very different...maybe even sexy? Then again, she probably has to be demure and princessy. I'm sure the Queen probably had to give approval or something...

Champers anyone???

Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1)

by Laura Thalassa

Reviewed by stacey_is_sassy on May 19, 2018

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