Unbroken Vow by Bree M. Lewandowski – Review by Dani Dando

Unbroken Vow by Bree M. Lewandowski
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A story of forbidden romance and one vow that leads to a whole load of shenanigans. It was a well-written tale with a vibrant world that felt really staunch and stoic, much in keeping with the characteristics I always assign to paladins whenever I am dabbling in a bit of DnD. I will say that I sometimes felt the narrative a bit stilted, I don’t know whether this was done on purpose considering the subject matter and all the rules and whatnot that poor old Glaive has to follow. I suppose it works when I think about it, though not always enjoyable to read, Glaive is a serious character and a really stilted and almost formal, feeling narrative suits him down to the ground.
Glaive is a Paladin, a really important and high-ranking Paladin at that, a regular Knight of Ardara and he takes his job very seriously, in fact, he takes everything pretty seriously, Glaive is not a light-hearted chap in my opinion. When his mate asks him for a mahoosive favour on his deathbed, then Glaive has to agree, only problem is that Markus isn’t just asking him to scatter his ashes someplace nice, he’s asking for Glaive to protect his wife, a wife that he is, by law, not supposed to have. Serious Glaive, being all serious and stuff, takes this vow seriously and is determined to do just that, protecting Ada from the fall out of her simply falling in love with the wrong person. For a while, his little plan of squirreling her away works, hiding pretty much in plain sight as a servant to the king (the closer you are to danger and all that) but Glaive does not foresee how other individuals whose brains reside in their breeches and egos swell to fill a ballroom, could foil his plans and put Ada in immediate danger. Obviously, as time goes on, though Glaive does not really soften as such, his feelings towards Ada change, and his reasons for so valiantly protecting her become somewhat blurred.
It’s a good read, I think I found it a little like whiplash because I have been reading so many funny romance novels recently, whereas this is as I may have mentioned earlier, a serious read. Still, it is worth it and Lewandowski is clearly a skilled writer, keeping the tale moving along at a nice pace with some wonderful descriptions that I can almost guarantee will take your breath away.

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