A review by flumbii
What Lies Beyond the Veil by Adelaide Forrest, Harper L. Woods

adventurous dark slow-paced

2.5

Bro what even was this??

I write down my thoughts while reading sometimes and omg this was just. I have no words. 

My thoughts from while I was reading will be surrounded like this: /thoughts/

Like if we just look at my first comment on the book, I literally call the plot twist of the book immediately when she meets him. 

/Caelum has to be fae there is no way he isn’t unless they’re doing a love triangle thing, there is too much foreshadowing for it not to be./

Then we can ask so talk about how the nicknames for her is actually atrocious. Like you don’t even know how much I hate them. 

Like I HATE the nickname “little one”!!!! It gives me this ick. It’s so gross. Like of all the nicknames you had to pick that was the one?? No! Absolutely not! EWWWW!!! 

And then ”My star”???? Okay did this author just search “worst endearments to give someone you like” cuz like wtf is that???? I literally cringed when I read that. The nicknames were unbearable.

I did like the writing styles tho but also not, idk it’s weird. I feel like she over uses some phrases a lot which made it kinda repetitive. 

I also just think her brother might have survived. But that’s just me foreshadowing.

LMAO okay look at me trying to convince myself that it’s not him cuz I don’t like him, help. 

/Okay he won’t be fae so either it’s going to be a love triangle or her fae is going to be an enemy (maybe enemy to lovers maybe)./

Like okay sure buddy. I was really trying out there while reading the book. So hopeful that he might not be her love interest.

/It’s deff gonna be enemies to lovers with the fae tho/ (ha I mean I won’t be wrong)

/Bro I so don’t want Caelum to be her love interest. yuck. He’s so cocky and vulgar and it’s not cute. It’s annoying and my new found ick. Like the way he talks to her and says he knows she wants to fuck him is just annoying. plss don’t let him be the main love interest. Let there be another cuz if he is the fae which I hope he isn’t I would be so annoyed. Also I called that like the second she met him so it wouldn’t even be surprising or a plot twist it would just be annoying and boring and predictable af. (lol look at me go, really trying not to believe what I know is gonna happen, I was really trying to convince myself that he wouldn’t be her main love interest)

/I wonder if they’re foreshadowing that he will end up killing her and if so she’ll either get brought back alive or she’ll die in the last book. orrr they’re just saying it to show that she wants him but doesn’t trust him fully./

Caelum is weird af and everything he says is just not it. Like he is a walking ick.

/He’s soooo suspicious and acting hella weird. Like he’s wayyyy to protective and the biggest ick is he saying that she said yes so she can’t back out of doing sexual things with him. Like ewwww no./

To end it all here is my rant from when I just finished the book.

noooooo I’m so upset I was right. I dont like him I didn’t want him to be her fated mate!! Ahhhhh bruh it was so predictable that I called it from the moment she met him like be fucking for real. And because it was so predictable and I didn’t like him I just constantly tried to convince myself that she would meet her fae later in the book. nahhh I’m actually so upset like I don’t like him at all I don’t think I’ll be able to stand him for two more books bro. I’m done. This book was so mid and like not a lot happened and the only thing that did happen was that I was constantly annoyed with the guy who is our love interest and our mc who constantly just stopped every thought she had and every question she had because you know what was more important? Getting fucked, that was like the main reason she stopped asking questions every time he did sus stuff. She’d just go I’m scared of him but omg he’s so hot he can fuck me anywhere. Like girl what?!?? nahhh like I was annoyed with both the main characters and this book had so much potential too and it just turned out so mid I’m actually crying. What a waste of time.