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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was excellent! It combined some of my very favorite things--cinnamon roll but extremely confident men and heists/thievery. Yep. I'm broken, deal. I adored this whole book. Every page. Probably my favorite Forever Wilde novel to date (yeah, I haven't read them all and maybe I've jumped around some, get over it).
re-read: hi hello I love this book. it's probably my favorite of *all* the associated series.
re-read: hi hello I love this book. it's probably my favorite of *all* the associated series.
I love this series. That is already well documented with my ratings of this series so far.
I adored King. He was such a mystery up until this book and proved to be a perfect addition to the Wilde world. He's clever, funny and compassionate. He's met his match with Falcon who I also loved. He had just the right amount of alpha but managed to treat King with the affection and sweetness he needed after his history with Elek.
King is my favorite Wilde... that is all.
I adored King. He was such a mystery up until this book and proved to be a perfect addition to the Wilde world. He's clever, funny and compassionate. He's met his match with Falcon who I also loved. He had just the right amount of alpha but managed to treat King with the affection and sweetness he needed after his history with Elek.
King is my favorite Wilde... that is all.
This had such an opportunity to be so good - reformed art thief and the FBI agent who's been trying to catch him for years???? That's a trope I can get behind. Unfortunately it just fell a bit flat for me in this book. I felt like most of the plot was dedicated to the heist and the job rather than the romance. I didn't really believe it when King and (I literally cannot remember the name of the other main character and it's only been 3 days since I finished this book) got together, it sort of felt like they were together for the sake of the book being a romance book and not because the two characters actually fell for one another.
It was fine, I liked King as a thief, I felt like his cover image really ruined the image that I'd made in my head of his character as he's described as such a sub bottom.
1.5 stars, not 2.
basic premise
King is an art thief who gets betrayed by his partner, Elek. He teams up with the agent Falcon who was chasing after King’s thief identity, Le Chaton. King wants to get revenge on Elek, and Falcon needs King’s help to recover an artifact Elek has stolen. In the process of their mutually beneficial mission, they fall in love. Dual POV, 1st person
opinion after story
Even though this was advertised as enemies-to-lovers, that aspect of their relationship felt very contrived. There’s instalust between them with lots of internal dialogue of them eyefucking one another that again didn’t help sell the enemies-to-lovers aspect. It felt like small drama points were being injected for the author to go “see!! they’re enemies-to-lovers!” but then they would quickly resolve those “miscommunications” just as fast and Falcon and King were back to kissing again.
The premise interested me, but by 40%, I found the story to be a slog. It’s an art heist story with FBI agents and moles and backstabbing, but the plot got a little convoluted at times with this thing or that thing /actually/ being forgery or a secret asset, etc.
I liked King’s character as the competent art thief, and was a little disappointed with how weak his character ended up being written at the end. It read less as him being more comfortable being vulnerable and more just writing him to be the sad, crying younger one in the relationship to get all the cuddles. I felt like King lost his bite across the story.
I didn’t like Elek’s character. It seemed like he was dumbed down way too much despite being King’s mentor and a well established art thief himself. I would have preferred a little more conniving from his end.
The steam scenes were fine. If you like breathplay, you will like this dynamic. There’s also some clothes-on-other-naked sex. Falcon as the silver fox dom agent whose ravenous but conflicted about being in love with an art thief was hot.
I was not a big fan of the family NPC characters. There were far too many of them, which I guess was the author’s way of giving fans of the series more opportunities to them, but since I read this story as a standalone, I was overwhelmed by all the names. This was particularly distracting in the epilogue, which I thought was very cloying.
Overall, I did end up surprisingly finishing this story after resisting the urge to DNF it multiple times especially in the middle. The ending was predictable, and I thought the result of Falcon and King’s relationship was too sweet and fluffy that had I known I probably would’ve DNFed it while I was still ahead of myself.
basic premise
King is an art thief who gets betrayed by his partner, Elek. He teams up with the agent Falcon who was chasing after King’s thief identity, Le Chaton. King wants to get revenge on Elek, and Falcon needs King’s help to recover an artifact Elek has stolen. In the process of their mutually beneficial mission, they fall in love. Dual POV, 1st person
opinion after story
Even though this was advertised as enemies-to-lovers, that aspect of their relationship felt very contrived. There’s instalust between them with lots of internal dialogue of them eyefucking one another that again didn’t help sell the enemies-to-lovers aspect. It felt like small drama points were being injected for the author to go “see!! they’re enemies-to-lovers!” but then they would quickly resolve those “miscommunications” just as fast and Falcon and King were back to kissing again.
The premise interested me, but by 40%, I found the story to be a slog. It’s an art heist story with FBI agents and moles and backstabbing, but the plot got a little convoluted at times with this thing or that thing /actually/ being forgery or a secret asset, etc.
I liked King’s character as the competent art thief, and was a little disappointed with how weak his character ended up being written at the end. It read less as him being more comfortable being vulnerable and more just writing him to be the sad, crying younger one in the relationship to get all the cuddles. I felt like King lost his bite across the story.
I didn’t like Elek’s character. It seemed like he was dumbed down way too much despite being King’s mentor and a well established art thief himself. I would have preferred a little more conniving from his end.
The steam scenes were fine. If you like breathplay, you will like this dynamic. There’s also some clothes-on-other-naked sex. Falcon as the silver fox dom agent whose ravenous but conflicted about being in love with an art thief was hot.
I was not a big fan of the family NPC characters. There were far too many of them, which I guess was the author’s way of giving fans of the series more opportunities to them, but since I read this story as a standalone, I was overwhelmed by all the names. This was particularly distracting in the epilogue, which I thought was very cloying.
Overall, I did end up surprisingly finishing this story after resisting the urge to DNF it multiple times especially in the middle. The ending was predictable, and I thought the result of Falcon and King’s relationship was too sweet and fluffy that had I known I probably would’ve DNFed it while I was still ahead of myself.
A Wilde thief and heist was something unexpected after all the other perfect Wildes.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cancer, Death of parent
This was excellent! It combined some of my very favorite things--cinnamon roll but extremely confident men and heists/thievery. Yep. I'm broken, deal. I adored this whole book. Every page. Probably my favorite Forever Wilde novel to date (yeah, I haven't read them all and maybe I've jumped around some, get over it).
re-read: hi hello I love this book. it's probably my favorite of *all* the associated series.
re-read: hi hello I love this book. it's probably my favorite of *all* the associated series.
Lucy Lennox is a literary genius. I have loved every single one of her Wilde books and this is no exception. I'm almost at a loss for words. I've been waiting for King's story with bated breath since Wilde Love and this was not what I expected. It was better. This book has everything, action, danger, suspense, love, fear, friendship and family. It's so exciting to finally know what King has been up to all these years abroad. I especially loved the way Lucy brought the rest of the Wildes into the story. This is a story of youth and mistakes and learning how to make things right.