A review by gauvvaine
Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre

4.0

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS BETRAYAL IN THE WAKE OF THE LAST BOOK, WHEREIN WE INTRODUCE A CHARACTER WHO HAD SIRANTHA'S BACK AT ALL POINTS & THEN TURNED AROUND AND BETRAYED HER WHEN SOMEONE PAID THEM ENOUGH MONEY

I'M SO UPSET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway no offense but the greatest romance in this book continues to be sirantha & velith, march is okay enough i GUESS?????? but velith is his superior in every & all ways.

i love ithtorians a whole lot y'all, wow. what a cool alien race. i lost my mind literally every time the narrative translated the meanings behind sirantha & velith's bows to each other, oh my GOD. the emotion they managed to pack into them fuckign kills me.

i gave this book 4 stars instead of the 5 the previous two received because a)

the bs with jael that i'm so mad about, i liked him a lot?????? he & sirantha actually had a rly gr8 thing going???????? why did we change this, aguirre, what did i ever do to u to deserve this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOPEFULLY THIS IS FIXED IN THE NEXT COUPLE BOOKS but i doubt it also b) once we passed the climax the book just ended lmao, like, there was virtually no follow up. idk it felt too fast & too neat for me to rly be happy with it.

anyway i'm gonna go crack open my copy of wanderlust & reread all the bits with jael bc i'm mad

(i'd have marked this as prominent queer characters but dinah & hit didn't feature as much in this one as in the last book, tragically)