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dawa's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
1bookobsessionconfessions's review
4.0
4.5 STARS
This duet is hard to review without spoilers.
I love these characters! They are grey ( nothing is black and white in this world/story) and I adore that!
This book didn’t go where I thought it would.
What a cool surprise. It’s refreshing to read something unpredictable.
Great duet about characters that will stay with me. An unforgettable journey.
I loved the raw and gritty nature of the relationship. I loved the writing style, I loved the story and simply adore these complex characters and unique story.
It won’t be a duet for people who want hearts and flowers romance, but if you like gritty, taboo or dark it’s a winner in my opinion.
I loved it!
This duet is hard to review without spoilers.
I love these characters! They are grey ( nothing is black and white in this world/story) and I adore that!
This book didn’t go where I thought it would.
What a cool surprise. It’s refreshing to read something unpredictable.
Great duet about characters that will stay with me. An unforgettable journey.
I loved the raw and gritty nature of the relationship. I loved the writing style, I loved the story and simply adore these complex characters and unique story.
It won’t be a duet for people who want hearts and flowers romance, but if you like gritty, taboo or dark it’s a winner in my opinion.
I loved it!
alysha222's review
0.25
I loved her other books but this was so toxic I couldn't give it more than 1 star
alga96's review
4.0
this duet was such an emotional read. during the second part though i mostly felt anger (if we exclude all the tears for poor bb River) - the stupidity of just not talking things through really got to me and let’s not even get into Roman, I really don’t think i’ll be able to read his book because he just felt so so so selfish and i can’t bear the thought of reading any more River slander coming from his mouth.
in the first book, we meet Rain and River and it’s so easy to build a strong connection with them as their consistent clashing allows us to understand them quite quickly. i think that Rain’s story arc was quite foreseeable although well built, i felt for him a lot and his issues with his identity felt very understandable due to what had happened to him.
River is such a sweet labrador baby angel, always wearing his heart right on his forehead and continuously trying to get Rain to allow him “in”. Seeing him break was probably one of the saddest things i’ve read lately.
I loved reading of their time at the cabin once they opened up to each other, it was very tender and very very spicy. then once that third act breakup hit, cc ricci really turned the volume up on the pain.
I think of this story there are 3 things i didn’t like
- the whole enclave thing, too messy and too useless at the end of the day: if the elders were so worried about Senator Child Rapist ratting them out on the whole sex ring thing they were running, why didn’t they just get rid of him? it doesn’t make sense to me that they would want to protect him
- the blurred lines (sometimes even crossed imo by both) on consent between Rain and River, i read a lot of dark romance so usually this doesn’t phase me too much, but given that i didn’t expect the darker turns going into the book at times I have felt uncomfortable
- the fact that we didn’t see more of them being together and truly happy, i wish there had been a few chapters between their reconciliation and the big plot twist to allow us to see them strong in their relationship, they deserved it after all the shit they went through :(
even with these points though I was fully captured by the story, it made me feel all the feels and cry all the tears bc sweet angel River just didn’t deserve all that pain
in the first book, we meet Rain and River and it’s so easy to build a strong connection with them as their consistent clashing allows us to understand them quite quickly. i think that Rain’s story arc was quite foreseeable although well built, i felt for him a lot and his issues with his identity felt very understandable due to what had happened to him.
River is such a sweet labrador baby angel, always wearing his heart right on his forehead and continuously trying to get Rain to allow him “in”. Seeing him break was probably one of the saddest things i’ve read lately.
I loved reading of their time at the cabin once they opened up to each other, it was very tender and very very spicy. then once that third act breakup hit, cc ricci really turned the volume up on the pain.
I think of this story there are 3 things i didn’t like
- the whole enclave thing, too messy and too useless at the end of the day: if the elders were so worried about Senator Child Rapist ratting them out on the whole sex ring thing they were running, why didn’t they just get rid of him? it doesn’t make sense to me that they would want to protect him
- the blurred lines (sometimes even crossed imo by both) on consent between Rain and River, i read a lot of dark romance so usually this doesn’t phase me too much, but given that i didn’t expect the darker turns going into the book at times I have felt uncomfortable
- the fact that we didn’t see more of them being together and truly happy, i wish there had been a few chapters between their reconciliation and the big plot twist to allow us to see them strong in their relationship, they deserved it after all the shit they went through :(
even with these points though I was fully captured by the story, it made me feel all the feels and cry all the tears bc sweet angel River just didn’t deserve all that pain
95whit's review
5.0
This was THE ONE. The book I’m gonna be thinking about for months…years. The Pinterest board and Spotify playlist really did it in for me with these.
kirajdx's review
4.0
The way I DEVOURED THIS although Roman did NOT deserve to have the last stalker poor me word let me tell you that
courtsim13's review against another edition
Short answer: I didn’t care anymore and I was bored. Long answer: the plot line this book was following felt way too dragged out to the point I got bored of it and lost interest. I think the story could’ve been wrapped up in one book with the events of the second book condensed down into an extra added 100 pages or so instead of a whole nother 450 page book. It felt like it was being dragged out just to have there be a second book instead of the story actually needing it and the minor plot line that was the deterring factor of them not being together despite the fact they are in love with each other got turned into a MUCH bigger and more complex plot line than I had originally thought it would be and I just wasn’t interested in following that plot line through—I didn’t care enough. It started getting into politics and secret societies when all I really cared about was the couple ending up together and getting their HEA but not even that was enough for me to get through it in the end.
joni08's review
dark
emotional
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0