Reviews - A Heart of Desire and Deceit

310 reviews for:

A Heart of Desire and Deceit

Elayna R. Gallea

3.66 AVERAGE

tookishbooks's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

loved this duet!
i missed the reality tv bit from the first one, but obvs knew that wouldn’t be in here lol!! enjoyed learning more about her maker and am so obsessed with how good of a brother Ryker is 😭

akahlsmith's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark medium-paced

kelseysbookishtales's review against another edition

4.0

Ryker and Brynleigh’s story came to the perfect conclusion and no one can tell me any differently.

I loved watching them learn to trust each other again and I enjoyed that it was an “oh I forgive you” two chapters in. They both had to work for it and damn that was nice.

I can’t wait for River’s story next ✨

My onlyyyy hang up was the fact that this was a vampire FMC, and somehow we had to wait until the end of the damn book for any biting spice.

katiebooksnaps3's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

kfrerichs2's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional tense fast-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

seeohbanwilson's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

carol_0594's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 54%

Too repetitive. And the FMC started very good but now... At least the far I read she was super strong in the first book and now the MMC gets mad at her and she just, does not argue back?

sazzle_bookwormgeek's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

tam_2208's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

agw622's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is so much better than the first book. Honestly this was probably one of the best handling of a broken relationship that I've seen. Is if still a little unrealistically rush, yes, but you do at least get a proper full arc, some ah ha moments, and just a strong desire to fix it and try to make it better.
The underlying plot is could be stronger, but since the relationship is the main focus, that is understandable. The ending didn't quite go where I wanted it, but honestly I like that because it made it less predictable.

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