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A review by allingoodtime
Harvest of Sighs by Sierra Simone

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

First of all, if you haven’t read the previous two books, you need to leave. Go back and read them. There will be spoilers for those books in this review, but not spoilers for this book. And, quite frankly, there is no reason to read this book without having read the others, as it wouldn’t make a lot of sense.

This book tore me apart. I really wanted a resolution for St. Sebastian, but it still hasn’t come. Not only are Saint, Audon, and Poe dealing with a multitude of issues which have their throuple imploding, the rest of the gang is also spiralling out of control. I don’t even know how all of these catastrophic things can be put back together and wrapped up in the one last book that is left in the series. It’s chaos!

The stories of Delphine and Rebecca have been woven into the series a little at a time up to now. In this book, we get a lot more of Delphine. Be warned that Delphine is still struggling with her rape and she definitely has PTSD from that night. There is also a flashback to shortly after it happened and how Rebecca took care of her, even while they always fancied themselves enemies. Their love story is a classic case of not talking enough. They are both so careful with their emotions and not wanting to be any sort of burden to the other so they don’t open up until it’s too late. Well, I hope it’s not too late. These two almost broke me.

I’ll be frank, this book is like a whole novel’s worth of a third-act breakup in a romance book. Not that they are all breaking up, but that hollow gut feeling while you watch the characters struggle to figure it out. Figure it out already!

On the happier side, there are a few things that happened that give me hope for the throuple. I also choose to believe Rebecca will calm down and be rational. Although I’m not sure what poor Becket will do. I only hope he finds peace, wherever life takes him. He’s my favorite after Saint, and they both struggled a lot in this story.

I appreciate that there were some revelations as to their parents. There’s even a sweet side story going on with two of them that helped to fuel my hope for the younger generation. 
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