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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Really liked it! Highly recommend.
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley has sharp-tongued banter, mystery woven through the plot, and a romance that balances tension with humor.
Summary:
When Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, falls ill, he realizes he needs the expertise of a very specific healer. As fate would have it, that healer belongs to an enemy faction, the Haelan Order.
Aurienne Fairhrim and her fellow Haelan are inundated by sick children suffering from an outbreak of a long-forgotten Pox. Unable to get the funding needed to launch an immunization program, the Haelan Order is desperate for money – so desperate that when Osric breaks into their headquarters to bribe Aurienne to heal him, she is forced to accept.
As Osric and Aurienne work together to solve not only his illness but the mysterious reoccurrence of the Pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction which only fuels the tension between them.
Read this if you like:
- Hate-to-love romance between healer and patient
- Top-tier banter and dry humor
- Mystery and intrigue woven into the romance
- Dual POVs with a unique magic system
📖 What’s Inside:
- Dual POV
- ✨ Unique magic system
- On-page intimacy 🟡
- Epidemic subplot
- 🩸 Violence and gore
- Explicit language
- 🌈 Inclusive cast
- Slow burn romance
✨ Vibes:
Think Dramione, but with a splash of Gilmore Girls humor (the fast, witty banter kind—though definitely more explicit). There’s even a whimsical Alice in Wonderland quality that kept things playful and fun.
💭 My Thoughts:
I actually read the fan fic that this book originated from—Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love—which will forever be a top-tier Dramione story for me. And honestly? The energy carried over beautifully.
The dynamic between the leads gave me all the Draco/Hermione tension and spark, with laugh-out-loud dry humor that had me grinning constantly. Even the side characters were fantastic—Theo’s reimagining as Leofric? Hilarious. His very first lines had me rolling.
What I loved most was how the story balanced serious fantasy stakes (an epidemic, politics, danger) with genuine humor. It proved that you can have high-stakes fantasy and still have fun while reading it.
I did feel like the prose leaned toward a higher reading level than most romantasy, which sometimes left me second-guessing whether the author was making up words…or if I was just missing them in my own vocabulary. Either way, it added to the whimsical quality of the world.
Overall, I debated whether this was a four-star or five-star read. It didn’t quite have that extra little something to make it an all-time favorite, but for Dramione fans everywhere, it’s a must-read.
Should you add The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy to your TBR?
If you are a Draco/Hermione shipper and enjoy hate-to-love romance with witty banter, dry humor, and a touch of whimsy, then YES. This is a must-read.
💌 Your turn! Have you read this one yet, or did you also come across the fan fic first? Drop your thoughts in the comments—I’d love to know if you got the same Dramione vibes I did!
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