We first meet Callie, the heroine, in the prologue. 😅 This just never really grabbed my attention, I wasn’t invested in the heroine at all and while the hero was more entertaining, it just wasn’t enough to want to continue the series. The first half much more so than the last half of the book, I actually felt like I was reading a completely different book the last bits than how the first part of the book was. I have been in the mood for fantasy romances so I jumped into this one.

I have heard The Four Horsemen series is good but I found this book first so decided to give it a go. Rhapsodic is the first book in the Bargainer series by Laura Thalassa, and was my first read from this author. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one. If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he’ll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that’s been awoken. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Something is happening in the Otherworld. For the Bargainer, it’s more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance.

At first it’s just a chaste kiss-a single bead’s worth-and a promise for more. 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. But for one of his clients, he’s never asked for repayment. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects. He’s a man who can get you anything you want … at a price. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past.

Rhapsodic by laura thalassa