A review by baileybailz
House of Pounding Hearts by Olivia Wildenstein

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

Had high hopes the first book was setting up an even better second book, but it didn’t quite get there for me. FMC devolves into being annoyingly stubborn and petulant. (Sweetie, if you don’t want the MMC, step aside cuz I’ll take him.) Enemies-to-lovers was more like “enemies-lovers”, without the buildup of the “TO”, which was kind of jarring and unsatisfying. The first book was so slow that I skimmed over some of the politics and now I’m having trouble catching up and following the game of thrones.