A review by catlion27
Idyllian by R. Z. Held

3.0

It's tough to pin down why this didn't quite land for me. I only read the first two novellas of the 4. I thought the plot was interesting, though I felt it sometimes got bogged down in technical descriptions. I thought there were interesting emotional moments and moral choices presented, but I didn't always feel their was enough follow through in the relationship, and the hints at more intense physical relationships didn't feel earned, exactly, because I didn't feel like the emotional beats adequately led to them? I wanted to like these books more than I did.