The Bridegroom feels it’s finally time to discover the childhood secrets who will reveal who his wife really is, as she’s kept much of her childhood from him. They soon visit Indigo in her childhood home, as her late mother wants to hear from her. They travel all across mysterious and intriguing places, swept up in little fables and fairytales that they tell each other. We hear the story from the perspective of the Bridegroom, a scholar who soon becomes enchanted by his new love.

A scholarly husband swept up in the mystery of his wife The book is beautifully written and the mystery is sustained through the two perspectives of the Bridegroom, and a childhood friend. Indigo is a glittering, enchanting woman who almost seems to reside within myths and legends, and we learn about her through two perspectives set at different points in time. With a richly evocative, sumptous atmosphere based around a mysterious and magical estate, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride had me captivated. or their lives.Ĭombining the lush, haunting atmosphere of Mexican Gothic with the dreamy enchantment of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride is a spellbinding and darkly romantic page-turner about love and lies, secrets and betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage. For within the crumbling manor’s extravagant rooms and musty halls, there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigo’s dearest childhood friend who suddenly disappeared.

They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after-and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.īut when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. Genres: Adult Fantasy Fiction, Magical Realism Published by Hachette Australia, Hodder & Stoughton on February 16, 2023 The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The last tale of the flower bride