Nikki

I liked the first book so much but, god, almost everything bothered me in this one.
Maybe it's the that Kiera is still so very, very traumatized by her ex but still gets into a relationship with Theo in a literal day.
It was trying to walk down a more serious route (with the abuse from the ex and her constant recitement of round objects to help her calm down) whilst still trying to keep this levity that didn't feel right.

this was so much better then I thought it'd be

Felt very bland, short so worth it if you like a pretty straight forward romance with insta-love/lust and not a lot of spice.

there's no world building, no character building, and the smut isn't even that good. I was disappointed by this 

I really liked the beginning but I got so uninterested around the 70% mark that it took me weeks to pick it back up and read through to the end. I will say it did start to pick back up after the third act conflict, however I don't really feel satisfied by the resolution to said conflict. 
I overall enjoyed the books that I've read in this series so I feel like that helps carry it to a 3.5 star read for me, but losing interest 2/3 of the way in seems to be common for me with this author. 
I wish the magic of this world was more thoroughly explored.

I wish there was some conflict in this book. there was nothing.
After they got together that was it, smooth sailing... It really just got boring for me. Also nothing really came of her parents being emotionally unavailable it was only there as a contrast to how cohesive his family was. 
I liked the writing, the dialog was good, the characters were unique and felt different but overall everything ended up feeling very bland   

was promising at the start but quickly went off the rails for me. I saw others comment that this was originally a ‘pay by chapter' release and that's why it's so long and drawn out and that made a lot of sense when it was just plot point after plot point. 
Not to mention the age difference...

So many issues with this books, I'm no longer gonna try to enjoy a trainwreck

Too much impregnation fetish, they were ‘back' together by chapter 16, and lost interest in the plot 

I don't know why people recommend this as a angsty romance, it's not, it's a revenge story.
a psychological horror revenge story and if you go into it knowing that then it's pretty good. (although I wish this would've been told in a chronological third person narrative)

Just because the main characters are/were in love, and the revenge is mainly plotted around Heathcliff's anger at his lost of Catherine, his motives are also driven by his anger at being treated shitty by almost everyone since he was brought to the Wuthering Heights as a child, although that doesn't excuse his horrid behavior towards everyone (including animals) as an adult. Heathcliff has mental health issues, and to say that his 'love' is unhealthy is an understatement. Dude straight up dug up Catherine's grave cause he wanted to see her, spent his whole life trying to get Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange just becase he wanted to demolish them, wanted to be haunted by Catherine and then thought he was, and not to mention that he starved himself to death because he wanted to see her again. my guy needs some therapy Also, I can't say that I liked any of the characters, I honestly didn't care what happened to any of them, they were all dicks, it wasn't just that they were 'villains' or 'anti-heroes' the were just assholes. They were the type of unlikeable that I think Jane Austen thought the character Emma would be, but upped by a hundred percent. For me, they didn't have redeeming qualities. (Nelly was okay, but let's be real she was just a narrative device)

If you want a ‘classic' romance then pick up Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, or Northanger Abbey (any Jane Austen for the matter). Honestly, I'd put this in the same category as Frankenstein, it gives off similar feelings/tones. This is more for if you want a story about miserable people being miserable.

  Characters felt underdeveloped, their entire relationship felt unsatisfying. The whole book felt surface level, it seemed like the writing of an inexperienced author who really needs a good editor (I don't know how experienced this author really is). However, I will say there was some life to the writing and I could see there being a book by this author that I'd like, so I gave it one and a half stars instead of the one I would usually for a book like this.
 

This wasn't the worst, which is why I'm giving it two stars instead of one but, it needed so much more character development for me to believe any of the relationships, and for me to think it was a good book.
Aeva needed more time and story with Wulfram, Aelric, and Idin for me to believe that they'd care about her, especially for Idin to be in love with her.

Bayan should've had more to his character than just being the mustache twirling bad guy who wants the main character only because she provides ‘legitimacy' to his claim to the throne; which by the way, did the heroine really need to be a princess?

It also felt like Aeva was just being pushed around throughout the story, and not in a “this is based in the ‘before the year 1000' days and women don't have rights” kinda way but, in a ‘the character doesn't make any decisions for herself' kinda way: yeah she chose to follow them but, it was Wulfram's' choice to let her stay, she wanted to go with the group but Bayan made them leave without her, she tried to leave Bayan but Wulfram brought her back. None of her choices mattered unless one of the other characters also wanted the same thing.

I like this series a lot only two books I haven't read yet. So far they're just shy of being 5 star reads. Even though they're technically sci-fi it feels like a high fantasy story.
 

the last 20% wasn't my favorite I didn't feel like the third act fight resolution was satisfying and so it tainted my enjoyment of the rest of the story

Want to read more by this author

I didn't know this was omegaverse when I started reading, wish I had because I would've skipped. 
the characters didn't get enough build up to make their ‘love' seem reasonable, dialog was bad, and plot was so contrived there was no surprise

The story didn't age well 

Just stopped caring after the introduction of the pregnant ex. Also kinda hate the ‘virgin small town girl' trope going on  

the antagonist is far too evil without sufficient reasoning... Also why wouldn't the FMC just go to the prince (with all the security and intel) and say ‘hey keep it quiet but your head chef is holding my sister hostage, can you help?' doesn't make much sense other than for plot

Also the prince not knowing she was the one the device was pointing out, especially after eliminating all the other candidates is just willful ignorance.  

This was a re-read from several years ago, before I tracked my reading. Again, like the first book in this series, it doesn't really live up to the enjoyment I had the first time I read it, I liked it but wasn't riveted. 

kinda hated some of the dialog, and the antagoist/point of conflict felt very unconvincing, liked the characters well enough though 

not hot or romantic, questioning if I only enjoyed the previous books because of reading them when I was younger and more forgiving of shitty romance books, 

I'll give it two stars even though I'm dnf-ing it, ‘cause it might just be a me thing.
I read through the first two, one right after the other because I enjoyed them so much, the second was a bit slower but, I did at least enjoy it. I don't know why but I just can't bring myself to finish this one. It's not holding my attention and I no longer care what happens.

It was okay, could've ended a few chapters earlier or at least had them condensed a bit.

The book itself is about an important and difficult topic, and is worth the read if for no reason other then to further spread awareness of what happened to these women and girls, and to the people of Korea during the war.

However, narratively, I didn't love the switching two person (past and present) storylines every other chapter, especially when intermingled with the occasional throwback memory in the middle of a characters on-going story, which happens with Hana in particular quite a bit. It felt out of place and always took me out of the story when it happened.

All in all, I'm glad I read it but I don't see myself ever re-reading it.