Eventually, the emotions from Azure’s POV overtook the bridegroom’s, leaving his side hollower than before. The bridegroom’s POV felt more and more detached as he dug further in search of the truth while Azure’s POV came more and more alive. Nevertheless, all the aforementioned also worked against the book’s favour because despite them (plus the beautiful prose), there wasn’t a balance to the emotions from both perspectives. It’s a brilliant ode that emphasises how the scariest monsters will always be humans.

The gothic atmosphere, the precariousness of the balance between reality and fantasy, the many lies and the parallels between the story’s world and the myths and folklores we know today - the more I read, the more in love I am with the book. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride is a mesmerizing experience. Consequently, as these cracks appear, the bridegroom can no longer resist and begins to search between the veils of the world for the truth. Thus, they marry and everything’s dandy until Indigo has no choice but to bring them both back to the House of Dreams, introducing the series of cracks that later, shatter their happy fantasy. They strike a deal where in exchange for her heart, he cannot pry into her past. It starts with the bridegroom whose name we never find out, falling for Indigo, a wealthy heiress who greatly feels as though she’s a creature from the Otherworld. Written with gorgeous prose filled with lush imagery, this book is its own dark fairytale that centres around the powerful acts of believing and lying, creating a world where reality is seamlessly interwoven with fantasy. If they know more about you than you do about them and it feels as though you’ll never know all of them as they will you.įor one man, it lasted until the past came haunting his wife again and that’s where The Last Tale of the Flower Bride truly begins. If they turn cold or unhappy at initial probing so you’d immediately stop in fear that the beautiful fantasy of love shatters. How long can you last if your partner in marriage has a past they refuse to share with you?

The last tale of the flower bride