Debbie

I was hoping the potential I saw in the first book would be used in this book... But sadly, I don't feel like it was. It wasn't horrible but it was lacking something. And it's sad because I'm loving the idea of this whole world and the magic... It's just not being brought together properly.

Iseult's book. Izzy. One of my favorite characters..of course Aeduan too but this isn't about him LoL. Seeing her growth in this installment was amazing. Heart wrenching but amazing. She doubts herself so much....her self worth, her witchery, who she is, what she is...and finally seeing her step into herself was beautiful.

With that being said Susan Dennard play too much!! ( Respectfully

I'm mad at myself for seeing Schwab's books everywhere and it taking me this long to finally get to one of her books. Fantastic world building. Seriously top notch. I didn't fully connect with the characters but I didn't hate them so I won't take off any points for that. I'm simply not in love and / or fangirling over any of them..yet. Hopefully with the next one? LoL. Please don't take that as the characters were bland or not worth the time to get into.

World building, story line,magic, villians, all on point. I know it's just the one book I've read but color me a Schwab fan.

I was disappointed. I felt like it was building up to something grand and then..... nothing. It wasn't total crap and some parts were certainly very sad and heart wrenching, but something was missing. Not my favorite in the series but that's OK.

I wish I had read this sooner. Upside is that I don't have to wait for the next book since it's up to book three. Even better is that I shared my second copy with my own Threadsister and we got to read this together (and we both loved it)

At first I really wasn't sure how I was feeling. I want to say for maybe the first quarter ( take this measurement with a grain of salt...I can read. I can't do math. LoL) it was slow but not slow. I was trying to gather information. The world, the people, the magic system ( which I love btw), But once it kicked into high gear for me...it kept going and did not stop.

The characters are not without flaws (which is fine. I personally don't want to read a book where every character is perfect nor where everyone is a complete fool. I'm looking for flaws but also growth within the characters). Safiya is kind of reckless. She just does things without thinking anything through (being young and reckless is normal. IRL and in fantasy) and it isn't until she sees someone hurt or the mess her actions cause does she really begin to grasp that she is absolutely the cause of half of the messes she's in. Iseult is her best friend and the opposite of Safi. I felt that they balanced each other out. Something that did frustrate me was that neither of these girls really tapped into the potential of their witchery. They could absolutely fight though. I felt that Dennard was heading in the direction of growth through out the book so hopefully that gets expanded in the next books.

I loved the twists and turns. I was also really surprised by a couple of the side characters. I don't need a book for every one of them but I definitely want to see them more or get more backstory on them.

My FAVORITE thing though? All the women were kick ass.

Hello, my name is Debbie and I love dark romances. With that being said that doesn't mean that sometimes I don't have to put the book down and take several deep breaths. Which I had to do a couple of times for the first half of this book. So why read them you may ask? That is between me and my therapist. TYVM! Side note: My therapist is other books.

Liv is The Deliverer. Her job is to train kidnapped people to make them the perfect sex slave per the owners desire. It's up to you to decide if she's a monster or a survivor. Is she a product of her environment or just dealing with the hand she was dealt the best way she can?

Joshua Carter. College football star. Helps his parents work their farm. Virgin. Future minister. May or may not be aroused by kink he doesn't understand. Yet.

I don't usually read the ones where the female is the Master. Not because I don't like them but I generally comes across the opposite more and I do gravitate towards alpha males. But I do like a woman who can wield a crop. There is a love story here. It's a dark but beautiful story. Plus there are no cliffhangers. There is a HEA! Unless it's not the ending you wanted. But that's between you and your own therapist.

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3.5 stars

Comparing this book to Fifty Shades of Grey does this book a major disservice. Especially if you want someone who thought that book was hot garbage to read it. Yes it was hot garbage. FIGHT ME.

Eva Tramell is young, beautiful, rich and completely messed up by a rough past. Gideon Cross is young, beautiful, even richer then Eva and completely messed up by a rough past. Eva is well aware of her flaws, upfront about them, and has taken steps to try and piece herself back together ( i. e. Therapy). Gideon past is also fucked all the way up and he thinks he's fine and it takes coming across Eva to realize that's he's seriously the fuck not and his billionaire self needs therapy as well. AND THERE'S NO SHAME IN THAT.

This books gets way intense at times. Both Eva and Gideon feel very real. Yes they are young, rich, hot AF and the sex is B-A-N-A-N-A-S...but that's half the reason we read these books. The other half is to feel that connection with two people just trying to deal with life and their past and moving forward and maybe with that one person who'll stand by you when you're on top of the world and when you feel like the whole world is against you.

I felt like this book was giving me whiplash from all the running back and forth Eva was doing. She was quick to say EFF ALL THIS IM OUT GIDEON. And I'm not mad at her for it.

If this is horror. ....then I'm dead inside. This book was very very dull. The POV's alone were annoying but i could have dealt with if the story was any bloody good. And it wasn't. None of it was. NONE OF IT.

The first half of this book was me yelling “WTF IS AELIN UP TO?” While the second half was smacking me in the face with secrets left and right. Just when I thought i knew someone..WRONG. It messed with my emotions. I loved it. I need more. OH look the next book is out. :)

Goodreads will tell you that I've read this book twice. That is what they call in my country a whole ass lie. Pick a number, any number and that is how many times I've read it. I've love the whole series but this book will forever be a book that will come to mind when people ask what my favorite book is ( Side note: stop asking bookworms that question. I don't know about the others but my brain melts LOL).
First of all, Rhysand. The title of BOOK HUSBAND ( yes all capitals. Always) applies to him and only him. Even being the strongest High Lord in Prythian history, he never belittled his Inner Circle. He never treated them as subjects and he trusted and loved them so much that he endured hell Under The Mountain so they wouldn't have to. But most importantly, he helped bring Feyre back to herself.
Now as oh so magnificent as Rhysand is...the star of this show is Feyre. As a woman she is such an easy character to root for. So young she learned that life was a cruel bitch and she fought back to survive. And that helped shape her even more in this book. She lost herself a bit, she doubted herself some, she had some major ptsd...but like the bad ass warrior queen she is she came back from all that and then some.
NOT TO MENTION the greatest Inner Circle ever.. Amren, Mor, Cassian and Azriel. I'm hoping that SJM has their books planned. They NEED their own books. And I need to read them.

3.5 stars. The first half bored me to tears. I was about three pages away from just saying eff it and giving up. I only kept going because I have a lot of time invested in the series and I was surprised I was so bored.

3.5 stars
I have very mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, the plot is actually very good. It's the main reason I kept going. I had several theories I had going as to who the killer was and there was even a surprise twist.
So what bugged me? Katherine and Dane. They UGH-ed me to no end. And I mean literally as I heard myself say UGH. And since they are the two main protagonists I was UGHing A LOT. They just weren't believable. AT ALL. I want to pinpoint exactly..but I can't. It was just a big fat NO.
I kept reading because it really wasn't a bad book. It wasn't a waste of time for me to read. If it had been I would have just stopped reading. I'm even going to continue the series and give any others she has a shot. I just don't ever want to see Katherine and Dane. Ever.

The first time I read this I didn't write a review as I simply starred my books then. BUT NO MORE OF THAT. This book is still as magical as the first time I read it. I haven't read this one as many times as I have ACOMAF ( nowhere near) so it was nice to go back and see the beginnings of Feyre becoming more and more of the bad ass warrior queen that she is. Also that I once loved Tamlin...until I very much didn't. Lol.

Did I read a post apocalyptic sci fi romance in the middle of a real life pandemic? Yes I did and I REGRET NOTHING. When I first raffled for this book on Bookish First I was excited and hoped to win it and not long after, Covid hit hard here in the States and life went sideways for everyone. So after I received the book I wasn't sure if it would help my anxiety or make it worse. I had so much fun reading this that I had no problem separating real life from the book. It was exactly what I needed.
I'm a sucker for a bad ass female MC and Nina is exactly that. She's a mercenary librarian. It's like my dream job that I never knew I wanted. Knox is a super serious soldier that went AWOL and now he and his team need Nina's and her crews help. There are some twists in the story so I won't say much more because it's hard without giving anything away. But I will say there are clones, action and romance.
I'm definitely ready for book 2 and this was an ARC so now I have to wait even longer (cue sad violins). Kit Rocha is a writing team that I hadn't heard of before but now they are definitely on my radar and I need to see what else they have to keep me busy until the next book in this series.

The first time I read this I gave it 3 stars (before I actually took some time to actually review the books on this site) and that rating stays the same. It wasn't horrible. I didn't hate it but there were certainly some things i didn't like. One thing is that it was way too long. Yes, any KA fan knows some of her books can get crazy long but she's good with filling in all that time so it isn't a problem. Not so much with this one. Just too much of nothing in too many pages. It also didn't help that I loved the ones that came before this one. Maybe reading this one first and having the others follow would have made it better because this would have been the starting point..but the fact that it's the end and FINALLY Benny and Frankie's story made it that much more meh. Don't get me wrong..it's not a crap book. IT's okay...but i wanted more than okay from this book, these characters and KA.

This feels like it could be or could have been an awesome read if it wasnt so rushed. At only 95 pages long, it zomed through everything and just ignored whatever couldn't be explained by the last page.

I like contemporary romances....but it's been a minute since I've read a handful here and there. So when my awesome friend MJ not only recommended this book/series/author but gifted it to me as it is one of her faves I was excited...but also nervous because I was afraid I wouldn't love it as much as she does. No worries were needed because I loved it.

Was I always in love with the MC, Joss Butler? Not at all. She was very frustrating. Understandably so but still so. So what saved her for me? Therapy. ( Not me in therapy. The book didn't wreck me like that

This book took me way too long to read because I was way the fuck over it by the time I got halfway through it. Eva was very annoying for a lot of this book. Yes I understand why she has the insecurities she does. Yes she is proactive about therapy. But this was too much for me. My heart didn't break for her this time. How she handled anything in this entire book seriously annoyed me. If Gideon so much as turn his head an inch to the left or right it was all I'M JEALOUS. I CAN NOT. LOOK AT ME. ARE YOU FUCKING HER. I CANT DO THIS. COME BACK. I LOVE YOU. YOU HAVE TO SHARE SHIT WITH ME. I CAN'T DO THIS. I LOVE YOU. IM NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU. I NEED YOU. OH LOOK THERE'S MY EX IMMA MAKE OUT WITH HIM IN FRONT OF YOU. There was many pages of this.
Gideon was the same as the previous book, really. Stopped going to therapy. Did sneaky shit and would just say TRUST ME. But then disappear. If I had any attraction to him it's gone now. It was a lot of the same. Just the same but also somehow worse.
Also....the sex wasn't even sexy. It was this weird, desperate, clingy fucking. No fire. No nothing but two people so desperate to prove to each other that one loves the other that whenever they are remotely alone they try the hardest to fuck harder than the time before. ANYONE WANT TO GUESS AS TO WHAT THEIR THERAPIST SUGGESTED THEY SHOULD NOT DO FOR A BIT?
The only thing that stopped me from giving this book 2 stars was the last few chapters. It seriously saved the book for me. Am I going to read the next one. Yes. Right now? Fuck no.

It should have been called Sylvie. It didn't read very antihero-y. The sex was.....regular. That being said I didn't hate it. It just wasn't what I expected.

Meh.

It wasn't scary in the slightest. Not to say that it was bad. I DID read the whole thing. I was curious as to who or what was behind the whole thing. Of course to fully appease my curiosity I will have to read the next book in the series. It is YA perhaps that's why I didn't find it spooky. But I feel like my eleven year old could read it and not be scared. All in all, it was an okay read and a decent time killer.

I think I'm the one that became a ghost while reading this. Boring. Boring. Boring. Mind numbingly so.

Sweet Baby Jesus! Yes. Bloody hell yes.