3.66 AVERAGE

dark emotional tense fast-paced
adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced
dark emotional 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

The cliffhanger from the first book had me RUNNING to the second!!

I enjoyed reading through Brynleigh and Ryker's rebuilding of their relationship. Love a broken relationship getting back together!! I still would have liked more of the world lore to have been explored, but I do realize the books lean more towards romance than fantasy. This series is a solid read for folks who want to read an easy to follow romantasy.

I wish we could have seen more of Brynleigh and Ryker happy together at the end, but I'm looking forward to River and Nik's books.
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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
emotional tense
adventurous emotional 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
adventurous dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

2.5
The first book was ok. If the first didn’t leave on a cliff hanger I wouldn’t have read the second. The writing needs to improve. The internal monologues of the main characters was so repetitive that it became annoying. “I’m so upset at what she did, but I love her”, told over and over. Or “I lied to him, will he forgive me?” I found myself skipping so much just to find out how it ended.