4.07 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I am really conflicted about how to rate this book, I love this world and these characters but I really struggled to get through this. I will still be going in to book 3 as I desperately need to know what happens! 

This follows on straight from the end of book 1, and we dive straight back into the action when even more things go wrong! 

I think there was a lot of filler in this book, and I found myself skimming to get to the plot line. I also found myself skimming due to the miscommunication and Loren not being able to tell Darien what was happening, which is one of my least favourite things to happen in a book, so I really struggle with the back and forth of miscommunication and the length of time it takes them to come back together. 

The characters in this series are the best part, their connections to each other, and the banter is fantastic, they are the perfect example of found family and I really enjoy that element of it. 

This series so far has everything I love, all the creatures, spice, lore, myths, found family, complex magic systems, dirty mouthed possessive men, I am so ready to find out what happens next and how it is going to end for Darien and Loren! 

all 973 pages were torture how this fmc survived until now i’ll never know 
challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous mysterious slow-paced

This book was way too long. The first 60% were a max 2⭐️. The last 40% redeemed it a little, but that's still 600 pages of boring to get through to to good stuff. And the end was ridiculous. And let's not start on the epilogue. 
adventurous dark funny mysterious 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 tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious 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: Yes

This book left me speechless 🥹

I was already very positive about the first book, but I'll have to give this one 💫💫💫💫💫

The heartbreak and yearning in this book kept me up all night, and I had to force myself to put it down. I'm desperate for the third book and can't believe I'm gonna have to wait 3 more days until it'll be delivered to me.

So, if you still haven't started this series, I need you to pick it up right away! It's a wild ride, an emotional rollercoaster, and highly addictive - you've been warned🤭