Nobody’s Lady (Never Veil #2) by
Amy McNulty
Publication Date: April 12, 2016
Publisher: Month9Books
For the first time in a thousand years,
the men in Noll’s village possess the freedom to love whom they
will. In order to give each man the chance to fully explore his
feelings, the lord of the village decrees all marriages null and void
until both spouses declare their love for one another and their
desire to wed again. What many women think will be a simple matter
becomes a source of village-wide tension as most men decide to leave
their families and responsibilities behind.
Rejected by the lord and ashamed of her
part in the village’s history, Noll withdraws from her family and
lives life as an independent woodcarver. This changes when her sister
accuses her of hiding her former husband Jurij from her—and when
Jurij eventually does ask to move in. Determined not to make the same
mistakes, Noll decides to support her male friends through their new
emotional experiences, but she’s soon caught up in a darker plot
than she ever dared imagine possible from the men she thought she
knew so well. And the lord for whom she still has feelings may be
hiding the most frightening truth of them all.
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***My Personal Review***
In the second installment of the Never Veil series, Noll has changed. She is no longer the same person she was, she feels a lot of remorse over her sister Elfriedge and Jurij. It is clear she still loves Jurij and now that the men are all "divorced" and free to choose the REAL loves of their lives it changes things. Noll has been in love with her sisters chosen one and husband Jurij forever and she knows that Elfriede never has and never will love Jurij the way Noll can. I was so saddened in the first book because I wanted SO badly for things to be different and for Jurij to turn his back on all of the tenets of society and marry Noll. So I started this book with high expectations that perhaps it would now finally happen. I won't give away the plot but I truly love the characters - especially Noll, Elfriede and Jurij because they are so complex and you can see they have more feelings but are not allowed to show them due to the society they live in. The whole dystopian theme that the men will die if they reveal their face to their true love and the woman does not love them back is heartbreaking and it is also a type of theme I have never encountered before. In my opinion you can't help but love Noll because she does what she is supposed to do and tries so hard to overcome her feelings in this book. I would highly recommend this series for young adult, adult and dystopian readers as well as romance. Check out the Never Veil series today!
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BOOKS IN THE SERIES:
Seventeen-year-old
Noll isn't in the mood to celebrate. Her childhood friends have
paired off and her closest companion, Jurij, found his goddess in
Noll’s own sister. Desperate to find a way to break this ancient
spell, Noll instead discovers why no man has ever chosen her.
Thus
begins a dangerous game between the choice of woman versus the magic
of man. And the stakes are no less than freedom and happiness, life
and death—and neither is willing to lose.
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Amy McNulty is a freelance writer and
editor from Wisconsin with an honors degree in
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Thanks so much for taking the time to read and review! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :D
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