Emma Goto
So this book was originally a Hermione/Draco fanfiction that got adapted into a proper story, which probably already reveals a lot about what the book is going to be like. It's not one of those more wholesome "Hermione meets a reformed Draco" type ones though, and instead is one where Harry dies, Voldemort wins the war, and then Hermione is auctioned off to the highest bidder (Draco). The way they explain the need for the auctioning thing is that there is some form of magical power that can be sourced from a marriage bond.
I'm not sure I'm convinced a story that involves an auction is something that should have made it out of the fanfiction world, but it does feel a bit tamer than what I assume the original fanfiction might have been like and the author does a pretty good of setting it up for book 2 in the series. It's a bit cringe (maybe in the vein of ACOTAR?) but like a guilty pleasure you can't help but read to the end. Obviously all the characters have been renamed (and some even gender-swapped) and so it's not quite a 1-1 duplicate of Harry Potter, but it is very easy to see a lot of the parallels, and that does distract from the story a bit as you try and figure out who each character is based off of.
As a side note, I found out about this book because I heard about the recent release of Alchemised (another Hermione/Draco fanfiction adaptation). Apparently the original fanfic for Rose and Chains was inspired by the original fanfic for Alchemised, so I suppose I might be tempted into checking that out too.
Originally posted at www.emgoto.com.
So this book was originally a Hermione/Draco fanfiction that got adapted into a proper story, which probably already reveals a lot about what the book is going to be like. It's not one of those more wholesome "Hermione meets a reformed Draco" type ones though, and instead is one where Harry dies, Voldemort wins the war, and then Hermione is auctioned off to the highest bidder (Draco). The way they explain the need for the auctioning thing is that there is some form of magical power that can be sourced from a marriage bond.
I'm not sure I'm convinced a story that involves an auction is something that should have made it out of the fanfiction world, but it does feel a bit tamer than what I assume the original fanfiction might have been like and the author does a pretty good of setting it up for book 2 in the series. It's a bit cringe (maybe in the vein of ACOTAR?) but like a guilty pleasure you can't help but read to the end. Obviously all the characters have been renamed (and some even gender-swapped) and so it's not quite a 1-1 duplicate of Harry Potter, but it is very easy to see a lot of the parallels, and that does distract from the story a bit as you try and figure out who each character is based off of.
As a side note, I found out about this book because I heard about the recent release of Alchemised (another Hermione/Draco fanfiction adaptation). Apparently the original fanfic for Rose and Chains was inspired by the original fanfic for Alchemised, so I suppose I might be tempted into checking that out too.
Originally posted at www.emgoto.com.