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It suffers from a mild case of middle book syndrome. Not much happens. I was listening to it with the text to voice feature of my reading app, and at times I just spaced out for a few minutes and I didn't feel like I missed anything. It wasn't totally boring, but still. Ivy's survival training is glossed over in book one, the training of the rest of the humans could have been the same. And that takes most of this book.

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Book starts by picking you up right where book 1 left you. The book is fast paced with a mix of fantasy world building and character development accompanied by some spice<3. Characters other than the two mains have their moments to shine and start to feel like truly dimensional characters. However once again the authors leave you scrambling to process that’s going to happen next as they leave you to dwell on the cliffhanger.

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flor3nce17's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

The ending broke my heart 💔. Ella was supposed to have a peaceful ending. 🥲 I get it though — plot development.

Quite liked the development of both plot and characters in this 2nd book. The diverse range of characters and differing personalities was great to the story.

Also, I did not like Cole from the start ... and I still don't like him. As for the Queen, she can die. 🤺

I adored seeing the beginning of Rekosh and Ahmya. I look forward to reading their book and also of the other couples.

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hellxriver's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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? No

4.5

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smolone13's review against another edition

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challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Ivy and Ketahn are faced with a hard choice that could lead to their potential death from Zurvashi. Ketahn gathers his three friends and his sister to try and prepare the humans for a long adventure to hopefully save themselves.

After reading this one I immediately jumped into reading the third book. I couldn't contain myself. This entire series for me was a 5/5 and I would love to get the collection at some point.

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Graphic: Sexual content and Death

Moderate: Violence and Sexual assault

The first book set up the entire point for Ivy. Ivy is a woman stuck on a planet with spider-like creatures called Vrix. In this book, their relationship is more established as they come to terms that they have an attraction with each other, especially for Ivy since she has a bit of a hard time coming to terms with what is going on. As they establish themselves, more problems occur for Ketahn which leads Ivy to being endangered. Ivy wants to free the other humans from their enclosures but to do so they need help. Ketahn can’t help eight humans by himself so he asks for help from his friends: Rekosh, Urkot, and Telok. While asking for their help he ends up meeting his sister, Ahnset, who wishes to help him as well. They begin preparations while Ivy helps the humans wake up. However, after hearing an altercation Ketahn comes in when he wasn’t supposed to and scares the shit out of all of the humans. It took a good bit before they all finally calmed down. The group was a little shaky at first, but soon enough they were prepared to train the humans. However, one of the people in their group was extremely sick and couldn’t do too much. Ahnset, who wished to help, thought it would be best to bring the sick girl to their queen, Zurvashi. However, Ketahn refuses believing that Zurvashi would cause more harm than actually help. Ketahn believed that Ahnset would listen to Ketahn’s wishes but Ahnset goes against Ketahn and brings her to Zurvashi. Ketahn chases after her but ends up getting there way before Ahnset could which leaves him almost raped by Zurvashi. However, once Ahnset is in the room with the sick human, Zurvashi smells the familiar scent that was on Ketahn the entire time and believed that Ketahn was mating with the sick human. Zurvashi kills the sick human in front of everyone and leaves the entire room in shock. Ketahn is then imprisoned and Ahnset is tasked with leading Zurvashi’s army towards the rest of the humans. This book was written with intense emotion and the desperation from Ketahn really sold me on how beautiful this book was written. After reading this one I immediately jumped onto reading the third book. I couldn’t contain myself. This entire series for me was a 5/5 and I would love to get the collection at some point.

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

(I’m writing this review after finishing the trilogy.)

I came for the smut (pun not intended) but stayed for the fantastic world building, plot, and character development!

This book had the best pacing out of the three, in my opinion. With the introduction of the other 7 humans, as well as more scenes with additional Vrix, the cast of characters expanded greatly. The humans added a really interested element and overall impact to the greater plot.

In this book we really get to see Ivy and Ketahn shine as a couple and with each scene I love them both more and more.

Ends with a cliffhanger, but the third book is already out so it’s all good.

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