adventurous funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous emotional funny 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: N/A
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I liked the romance development and the body and sex positive development of the FMC + fun worldbuilding

I can’t even begin to explain the chokehold this series has on me. I adore Casteel and the whole pining-pretending-can’t admit our feelings thing is just CHEF’S KISS. It’s so exciting to me when books get progressively better in a series. Fans of Throne of Glass should DEFINITELY pick this series up.
adventurous emotional medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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 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

I would rate this book 2 stars, maybe even one, BUT this was a SPICY read. So bonus star. The internal monologues? Literally made me skip entire pages. Half the conversations? Skimmed at best because it’s the same 3 discussions. I genuinely only stuck this out most nights because some absolutely FLAMING spice pulled me out of the coma Poppy was putting me in.

But then the last 100 pages made me just curious enough to read the third. Well played.
adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes