A review by wilt
Fall and Rising by Sunny Moraine

2.0

i really enjoyed the first book when i read it last year. very sad to say this one didn’t click for me. and i’m not sure if its because i waited too long to read this one, or if it suffered from losing its co-author from the first book. but i just couldn’t get into it and one of the main issues i had with it was adam and loch’s relationship, which was in dire need of further development after the first book. and i was looking forward to seeing that development! i wanted to see how this rocky relationship might grow into something like love. but no matter how many times they threw around the word ‘love’ in this book i didn’t feel it. at all. i’m not even sure what they like about each other anymore, despite how many times they tried to explain their relationship to others. and i would have enjoyed a continuation of their rocky questionable relationship, if that’s all it was, if i wasn’t being told every other chapter about how deeply they love each other when their actions are full of constant arguments and a total drift in their motivations and ideals. if you need to say they love each other in order for me to believe it (and even then i don’t) then what are we doing here :(

the trans man side character continues to keep slaying though, and i almost wish he was the third in adam and loch’s relationship, to act as the glue that holds them together. because i don’t see it working out otherwise. 

small chance i’ll read the 3rd book. i wanted to DNF this one at multiple points, but i also still kind of want to see how it ends. we will see.