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Honeythorn by Marina Vivancos

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favole's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Milan and Raphael stole my heart.
The positivity and fight Milan has in him is what makes this story so enjoyable. I couldn’t put this book down!
How could you not love Milan and how sweet and caring he is?
Raphael had wounds from his last arranged marriage and “bond” which caused him to raise up his walls. Once Milan knew of this, he was so patient and did all he could to help Raphael trust him and ease those walls back down to love again.
The way Milan communicates would just leave me speechless, and Raphael even learned to be more open and communicative as well which was perfect.
I was so giddy during their banter and sweet moments.
Them having a snowball fight while their dogs ran around them? Heart melted

ashtwhite's review

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dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

2.5

mousie's review

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challenging emotional medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

palvi00's review

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4.0

This book was unexpectantly good.
I must say that I didn't enjoy the name Milan as I live in Italy and it was really awkward at the beginning, as I'm not used to reading it as a character name, but after a while it was fine.
Milan is strong and amazing.
As Raphael struggled due to his past husband, he treated Milan poorly, but as we discover his past, we start to understand him.
This book was about struggle: Milan struggled to adjust himself to his new home and this new environment, whilst Raphael struggled to accept his new husband.
For once I didn't read about a powerful and confident Alpha.
Unfortunately, there isn't much about their future, like when they'll have children or when they'll go to the South, so I hope there'll be another book about them.

lilybear's review

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4.0

I love a good Hurt/comfort story. An arranged marriage between warm, caring Milan and frigid Lord Raphael. MV created a unique omegaverse in which omega and alpha share a bond that can kill the omega if neglected. This unique dynamic created delicious drama as Milan suffered at the hands of Raphael. The comfort that came after the hurt took time and the forgiveness wasn't instant. As much as I enjoyed the struggle of suffering and love I'm deducting major points for plot holes and a hollow villain character. Like seriously why did Jack wait so long to enact his supposed perfect plan?? I'll tell you, it's because it would've worked and then the MCs wouldn't have triumphed. I just hate it when so little thought and purpose goes into villains and their plots.

vicky3's review

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dark emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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boyanna's review

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4.0

i expected to find trashy omegavers with a lot of smat, instead i found a tender love story about broken people healing, about trust and the meaning of true dedication.
It was lovely.

alzeller99's review

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4.0

okay so i said before i am not the biggest a/b/o fan and that is still true, but nevertheless, I found this enjoyable. the a/b/o elements were subtle and not too overwhelming, and the parts I actually like reading about from omegavese (the bonds, and resisting-the-the bonds) were nicely done. I like my romances to make me work for the happy ending a bit, and I never stray away from a good heaping of angst and this had some DELICIOUS angst.

The parts I struggled with came down to writing style. n the beginning, vivancos threw a bunch of names out-- half of which never came up again, and some dialogue was written away through descriptions of conversations rather than just showing the actually conversations.

I will warn you that Raphael is a bit of a dick (okay a lot of a dick) at the beginning of the story and might be a little off-putting for some. His actions are explained as he isn't really an asshole for no reason and he certainly has to work for forgiveness from Milan, so take that with what you will y'know?