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myinvinciblesummer's review against another edition
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Abortion
Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse
smuttymcbookface's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abortion, Sexual content, and Confinement
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Trafficking and Body shaming
bopancakes's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Surprisingly enjoyed this book more the I expected since I have a fear of the Ocean and large bodies of water. It helped that Catalina was super relatable, sadly given our shared baggage, also that Thane was hot.
The story was full of comedic moments and enough heat to create its own hot spring. As a Non-Binary person I absolutely love Ramanu with their pronouns, then the introduction of Embry and the Ze/Zir pronouns was amazing! Katee Robert is very quickly becoming a new favourite of mine because her world is just full of LGBTQ+ Love!!
Another thing I’m truly enjoying bout this series is how the author creates these characters that have truely reached a point where a demon deal is potentially the only way out, they have baggage and the creatures have baggage, it definitely helps make the characters more relatable and real. Most importantly the characters meet their respective partners but it’s not treated like a “fix it all” situation, they still have baggage and are actively working through that.
Can’t wait to pick up the next book!!
The story was full of comedic moments and enough heat to create its own hot spring. As a Non-Binary person I absolutely love Ramanu with their pronouns, then the introduction of Embry and the Ze/Zir pronouns was amazing! Katee Robert is very quickly becoming a new favourite of mine because her world is just full of LGBTQ+ Love!!
Another thing I’m truly enjoying bout this series is how the author creates these characters that have truely reached a point where a demon deal is potentially the only way out, they have baggage and the creatures have baggage, it definitely helps make the characters more relatable and real. Most importantly the characters meet their respective partners but it’s not treated like a “fix it all” situation, they still have baggage and are actively working through that.
Can’t wait to pick up the next book!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Abortion and Abandonment
Minor: Pregnancy and Child abuse
emmagrace's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
as much as I appreciate that this was a romance between two people who didn't want kids and still don't want kids by the end of the story, that was pretty much the only thing I liked. the main guy/kraken was so terrible to her and the justification is just that she's used to being treated poorly?? I was not a fan, especially not when weighing this against the previous book which was so much better in every aspect.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Abortion, Emotional abuse, Grief, Body shaming, and Child abuse
angelsfw's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Abortion, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse and Death
mspilesofpaper's review against another edition
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
I really enjoyed The Dragon’s Bride, so I thought that this one would be a good choice as well but I was utterly mistaken.
Aside from an extremely odd pacing and all the baggage that both characters have (loss of his love for Thane, childhood trauma and emotional/mental abuse for Catalina), which would have profited from being a longer story: wtf did the author really think? Thane is extremely cold, distant and stand offish (even for his own people) and leaves Catalina after sex. He basically triggers the harm clause from the contract several times and he’s just not loosing his territory because Catalina has no concept of self-preservation.
The book includes an abortion scene, which just happens because Thane forgot about protection. I wish it would have been handled better because it’s just put in after they fuck around for over a month (and do relationship stuff), the abortion happens and somehow it triggers their happy end. Of course, the harm clause (which could’ve been triggered apparently because Catalina got pregnant against her will) doesn’t happen because Catalina waves it off again.
Both deserve someone better because I can’t see that pairing work at all.
Aside from an extremely odd pacing and all the baggage that both characters have (loss of his love for Thane, childhood trauma and emotional/mental abuse for Catalina), which would have profited from being a longer story: wtf did the author really think? Thane is extremely cold, distant and stand offish (even for his own people) and leaves Catalina after sex. He basically triggers the harm clause from the contract several times and he’s just not loosing his territory because Catalina has no concept of self-preservation.
The book includes an abortion scene, which just happens because Thane forgot about protection. I wish it would have been handled better because it’s just put in after they fuck around for over a month (and do relationship stuff), the abortion happens and somehow it triggers their happy end. Of course, the harm clause (which could’ve been triggered apparently because Catalina got pregnant against her will) doesn’t happen because Catalina waves it off again.
Both deserve someone better because I can’t see that pairing work at all.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Abortion, Grief, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment
kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, and Fatphobia
Minor: War, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
CW provided by author: Abuse/neglect (mental/emotional, parent to child, historical), spousal death (historical, non-graphic, off-page), explicit sex, vomit (non-graphic), pregnancy termination (non-graphic), incidental injuries for magical purposes, grief, body shaming (historical, referenced briefly), reference to age play and to DDlg, slight dollification, use of unconventional gagwhrohala's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Short and spicy. Pretty much what I've grown to expect from Katee Robert's writing.
Story moved quickly, but was repetitive, which was disappointing. I also found myself having a harder time rooting for the relationship than I usually would, which I assume is mostly because they don't really talk to each other until the last 1/3 of the book, so the relationship development felt a bit forced. I feel like the story as a whole would have benefited from either being shorter and cutting out the redundancy, or a lot longer to flesh out the detail and lore that was just hinted at.
Story moved quickly, but was repetitive, which was disappointing. I also found myself having a harder time rooting for the relationship than I usually would, which I assume is mostly because they don't really talk to each other until the last 1/3 of the book, so the relationship development felt a bit forced. I feel like the story as a whole would have benefited from either being shorter and cutting out the redundancy, or a lot longer to flesh out the detail and lore that was just hinted at.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abortion, Sexual content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death and Child abuse
morgansbookshelves's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I wish we got to see a little bit more development from the characters!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Confinement
Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Medical content, Child abuse, and Abortion
Minor: Death, Murder, and Pregnancy
kathleenmcg's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Child abuse, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Abortion