A review by moodreadingmagic
A Monsoon Rising: A Novel by Thea Guanzon

Did not finish book. Stopped at 72%.

I read The Hurricane Wars last year and had mixed feelings on it. Ultimately I wanted to give the series some more time and a chance to tighten up the world building/magic system. Though I do think that the magic system was constructed more clearly, I really struggled through this. I didn't love the pacing of the enemies to lovers arc in the first book, and continued to struggle to understand the compatibility between our main characters in the second installment. The storyline seemed to suffer from being stuck in a cycle of we are from opposing kingdoms and our marriage is a farce to stripping down and getting busy with little to no growth in the relationship between Talasyn and Alaric. I continuously had to remind myself that these characters were in fact adults and not young adults because their interactions seemed immature and lacking depth. I think I had too high of expectations from this series and it let me down.