3.88 AVERAGE

charlie29's review

3.5
medium-paced

can someone tell me why the third act break up happened 60% in???? 
cute, but idk it was missing something 

23lea06's review

4.0
challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional lighthearted fast-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: N/A

Another Catharina Maura book I absolutely devoured & loved it ♥︎

Pick it up if you want to read a romance book with all the firsts, jealousy, angst, grand gestures & yearning. 

I think by this point I have to accept the fact I'm going to go mad for anything she writes. TBH, my expectations for this book were not as high as I used to have for the Windsor series. But this book knocked me off with the emotions & the characters. I literally stayed up the whole night to finish it and the entire time I had to muffle my screaming, stupid giggles & my crying. (Becoz everyone was sleeping :p)

Serenity was yearning for the head over heels love but unfortunately she was expecting it from the wrong person, her best friend. When he goes on to fall in love with her best friend, she makes a rational decision of making a to-do list to check off the things she has been putting off. & The best thing she did was write Archer's name in it. 

Archer, was a dream. Literally a dream. Running a successful business with his partner & trying to overcome the trauma of losing someone; his life has been pretty much on hold except for his curiosity towards the muse. It's like his heart knew before him.

Serenity & Archer's relationship is one the best done relationship when it comes to hidden relationship tropes. They both had this undeniable chemistry, both physically & emotionally. Archer fell for her long before she did. He knew what she wanted. The way he was possessive of her just showed how much he has fallen for her. 

Serenity knew the moment he had him that it was going to hurt when the arrangement would end. She was very careful to not fall for him & really was very considerate of the situation he was in. That just made me love her more. Even though she was hurting, she loved him enough to give him the blank canvas. But I loved the way Archer stood no matter what.

The last few chapters, omg! The emotions just got to me. I was in a hatered mode on Tyra, I had my doubts even with her story. But she ended up doing something that made me fall in love with her too.

Now I need the next book, whatever she writes ♥︎
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: No
emotional funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

hmmmm… we’ll i couldn’t put it down. that’s for sure. fast paced. archer and serenity were cute. i do wish archer had tried a little more to stop serenity from leaving him… but i understand. lots of sex. good but did feel a limitless monotonous/repetitive. love ezra. W brother. L theo. like how do you just suddenly realize you were in love with her after dating her friend of 10 years. happy that serenity got her dreams to come true. I AM SO RELIEVED that archer and serenity were not caught and there was no embarrassing scene like that but rather ezra just knew… again W brother. W dad too. it was cute that he bought her painting. L mom tho. seems like she only liked archer. feel like i need to read zane and celeste’s books. i would’ve liked if we got to see his family’s reactions to them as a couple. feel bad for tyra,,,, hope she ends up with ezra. my king deserves it. overall a sneaky little romance. good. not life changing. i thought their time together before tyra returned was really cute and i think you were able to see how they fell in love which i feel like many stories lack. like we were told about their time together but we were also aware that they were spending a lot of time together that wasn’t being shared. cute proposal in epilogue. he “cupped” her neck and head a lot. major simp. staring calling her “mine” from the beginning and i knew bro was cooked.
emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional 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
emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful 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: Complicated
dark emotional hopeful 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: No

WE SAY THANK YOU CATHARINA MAURA!!!

God, this book was hot and had the PINING. Normally the spicy books don’t do pining well. Not this one. It was agonizing. Thank you so much.