The Bargainer

Name: The Bargainer
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Laura Thalassa

By:Laura Thalassa

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Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can get you anything you want ... at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects. But for one of his clients, he's never asked for repayment. Not until now. 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. At first it's just a chaste kiss-a single bead's worth-and a promise for more. For the Bargainer, it's more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that's been awoken. If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he'll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.

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Books In This Series

Book 1 of 4

Rhapsodic

422 pages

Published Nov 15, 2016

Book 2 of 4

A Strange Hymn

384 pages

Published May 27, 2017

Book 3 of 4Read 1.5

The Emperor of Evening Stars

218 pages

Published Oct 15, 2017

Book 4 of 4

Dark Harmony

436 pages

Published Oct 28, 2018

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Jamie’s review

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The Bargainer series! What a ride! I loved the concept of the Bargainer trading in favors and secrets. The otherworlds are giving stranger things and this is the first series where I have been LEGITIMATELY creeped out. The sleeping women and the demon babies can get out of my nightmares right now 😱

It was a little repetitive and I didn’t love the circumstances of how the main characters meet. But I was entertained and it has spice and the mystery keeps you guessing as to how they will inevitably save the world and live happily ever after… because they always do!

Desmond and Callypso are great… once you get through book 3 and learn the backstory. But if I had to hear him call her “cherub” or “baby siren” ONE more time I swear to god 🤢🤢🤢

Erica’s review

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A Siren and a Vampire? Say less. I ate this 4 book series uppppp! It had it all for me EXCEPT the God awful pet names and the overuse of them. 🤮 But let’s just continue to ignore that shall we?! I loved the unraveling of Callypso and Desmond’s secrets as we go through the years, getting glimpses of both past and present. This had me in the feels while she was trying to figure out the betrayal of the MMC Desmond. He was also a nice change up of the dark-haired, broody Shadow Daddy MMC we all love – check the fan art below!

The whole premise was super unique – he collects debts for favors people ask when they call on him. Great world building, tension, and the spice was mmmm mmmmmmmmmm yep! I think about this series a lot. I LOVE a 4 book-er and this just has it all!