medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

start and end were alright but the middle was boring! and they were trying so hard to push the enemies to lovers arc but quite clearly they were never enemies so that was just tiresome. it also just ended way too neatly and too easily.
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Couldn't put it down. Excited to read Mische's story when it comes out.
adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

outerspacekate's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 80%

First book was awesome. This book was so slow. I got 80% through and had no desire to finish
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I felt like this book flowed well as a continuation of the first. Oraya had a lot of emotions, trauma and things to work through while trying to survive . I definitely felt like she came into her own and gave off some major bad b energy at the end. Raihn- while I was irritated with him at times ( for the obvious subterfuge) but his constant belief in his lady and his patience with her as far as her not being able to deal with emotions made me love him even more. Overall an excellent continuation and conclusion to the duet.

oraya and raihn. my loves!!! I loved watching them find their way back to each other even if it felt a tad drawn out at times. also a slight overuse of “there she is” but we survived. 

this series reaffirms my love of series of interconnected duologies. I love knowing the overarching plot will continue but my loves will be safe now (hopefully lol). it does suck we don’t get to see their full happily ever after for 4 more books but my stress is significantly decreased so that’s a win in my book. so so excited to follow mische’s story next