The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

Brigitte Knightley
Orbit • 2025

The first in a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy duology featuring a scholarly healer and a gentleman assassin, set in an exquisite fantasy world, perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis and Emil...y Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, is in dire need of healing. Naturally – such is the grim comedy of fate – the only healer who can help is Aurienne Fairhrim, preeminent scientist, bastion of moral good, and member of an enemy Order. Aurienne is desperate for funding to heal the sick - so desperate that, when Osric bribes her to help him, she accepts, even if she detests him and everything he stands for. A forced collaboration ensues: the brilliant Woman in STEM is coerced into working with the PhD in Murders, much to Aurienne's disgust. As Osric and Aurienne work together to heal his illness and investigate the mysterious reoccurrence of a deadly pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction, which only fuels the heat between them. Romance tropes Enemies to lovers High interaction slow burn Hypercompetent idiots He falls first and harder Evisceration as a love language
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Brigitte Knightley v románu The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, 416 s.) staví do popředí konflikt mezi Osricem Mordauntem, členem Řádu vrahů, který zoufale potřebuje uzdravení, a Aurienne Fairhrim, přední léčitelkou a členkou nepřátelského řádu. Jsou nuceni spolupracovat na vyléčení jeho nemoci a vyšetření návratu smrtelných neštovic, přitom popírají svou vzájemnou přitažlivost, která nakonec vyústí ve vášeň. Recenzentka uvádí, že ji kniha dlouho nudila kvůli rozsáhlým popisům a Auriennině aroganci — zhruba polovina knihy byla na facku — zatímco poslední třetina a Osric text výrazně zachránili, ačkoli se autorka částečně inspirovala Dramione fanfikcí. Kniha vyšla v angličtině 8. 7. 2025 u Orbit Books, v ČR dosud nevyšla a recenze vznikla po desetidenním čtení v srpnu–září 2025.

The first in a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy duology featuring a scholarly healer and a gentleman assassin, set in an exquisite fantasy world, perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, is in dire need of healing. Naturally – such is the grim comedy of fate – the only healer who can help is Aurienne Fairhrim, preeminent scientist, bastion of moral good, and member of an enemy Order. Aurienne is desperate for funding to heal the sick - so desperate that, when Osric bribes her to help him, she accepts, even if she detests him and everything he stands for. A forced collaboration ensues: the brilliant Woman in STEM is coerced into working with the PhD in Murders, much to Aurienne's disgust. As Osric and Aurienne work together to heal his illness and investigate the mysterious reoccurrence of a deadly pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction, which only fuels the heat between them. Romance tropes Enemies to lovers High interaction slow burn Hypercompetent idiots He falls first and harder Evisceration as a love language

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