adventurous 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 challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This book was a complete trudge to get through.  Everytime I picked it up I was so bored. This is probably it for me with this series.  There are too many other fantasy series with way more interesting plots and couples I actually care about.
adventurous dark medium-paced
adventurous challenging dark 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

Having a protagonist that you can feel their empathy and compassion coming off the pages makes you fall so much more in love with them, and especially when there’s 2. Their love story is beautiful, the world building is amazing. And who doesn’t love pups. Honestly mvp is luce, the best girl. 
Can’t wait for the next books, the epilogue revealed something I didn’t even see coming. 

adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This deserves 10 stars!!! I loved it so much, Carissa is truly an incredible author. The world building is top notch always, but this felt even more immersive than book 1 of the shadowborn duet. We get to learn a lot more about the gods and each of their twisted motivations for things. Getting Asar’s POV throughout the book made me love him even more (see: “I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care). Their love is beyond beautiful and they have to fight through so many different dangers to get their HEA. We get even more crazy, dark monsters in this and the plot is nonstop hurtling towards a gods war. I laughed, I swooned, I cried. God tier book!
emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

DNF @ 26%

I’ve decided I’m done with this series. I was so bored with this book and had to force myself through it to get as far as I did. 

madreader_7's review

2.5
adventurous dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious slow-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