Review - Cursed: Ride or Die by Eden Winters
Cursed: Ride or Die
by Eden Winters
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Posted in Book Reviews on December 17, 2025
Slade prefers being on his own. When he feels the need for some companionship, he’ll pick up a guy at a bar for a one-night stand. It’s a perfectly good system as long as the other man understands the arrangement. When a young man from a previous night turns up at Slade’s garage wanting more, the biker has to set him straight, and he does it as brutally as possible. It turns out Slade’s one-night stand was the destined mate of a powerful sorcerer. Slade didn’t even know sorcerers existed, but now he’s cursed to be forever on the move. Never able to settle down in one place for more than a month. When Slade meets a wounded Noah, things change for both men.
“Cursed: Ride or Die” is a contemporary fantasy romance set in an America where witches, werewolves and sorcerers are real, but most people don’t know about them. Once Slade and Noah are introduced, the overall course of the plot is rather predictable. However, the storytelling is very good, and there are a few big surprises before it gets to the seemingly obvious conclusion. As with many good romance stories, it’s the journey that makes a good story rather than the destination.
The point of view switches between Slade and Noah. We meet Slade first, just before the sorcerer curses him. The biker didn’t know sorcerers existed, and resists the idea of a curse. When Slade begins to show strange symptoms at the end of the first month, his brother tries to put the symptoms, and their sudden disappearance at the edge of town, down to psychological problems. It’s all quite natural. Only, Slade knows better, and even he has trouble believing it. Slade’s journey is a classic one of a man learning to have more empathy for the people he interacts with.
Noah is a very interesting character. He is believably quite innocent in the ways of the world outside the isolated cabin where the man who found him wandering alone in the forest as a child, raised him. Noah is quite likeable, and the revelations about him that come out near the end are more than a little shocking. Noah and Slade make a good match despite the big differences in their backgrounds and personalities.
“Cursed: Ride or Die” is available from Smashwords.