Gabi

I found Elise to be exceptionally annoying, the kings need an immediate ego check and all of them need to take a really really cold shower. Separately.

I’m like 10% invested in whatever happens in this but 100% invested in ZA so it’s a really weird line to walk.

This was okay, I didn’t hate it but I miss my twins and the heirs.

I am going to continue cause everyone says it gets much better and again, I’m committed.

I freaking love them so much!!!

I think it’s the first time I cried happy tears in a book.

Isaiah Rhodes is for sure the goal and I’m actually upset that I might not reach it ever.

Kennedy’s growth in this story is so clear and done in such a gradual slow pace, it feels genuine and real.

Stunning

So this is a 3⭐️ for me.

Maybe my expectations were a little too high from all the reviews I saw but it really didn't live up to what people were saying.
Personally the beginning was the hardest to get through. Definitely check the trigger warnings before going into this, it has heavy themes that are not subtle at all.

Tiny spoilers ahead⚠️

I was a lot more invested in her getting the revenge she deserved than their love story for sure. (The scene right before they got attacked the first time had me physically anxious)
I did think about DNFing a few times but I needed to know how that ended.
I did like the ending, I think everything from her relationship with him, her dad and their careers tied up well.

Lachlan, for me, is such a whiplash character. In the beginning, every thought this man had made me cringe and then when he started falling for her he was the sweetest. And then he came back absolutely unhinged and kind of stayed like that for the rest of the book.

“My whole life women have thrown themselves at me” OKAY WE GOT IT and also sir you do not get to growl if you do not have bat wings or shadow powers , take a step back

Lyla, this poor girl, I would not have been able to keep my shit together as well as she did consistently. I did want her revenge to be more aggressive and maybe darker

Overall not bad

3.5⭐️ but the potential of a 5 star book

The whole story was very rushed, especially the last chapters. I also feel like the switch between hate to love was so immediate that I didn't have time to enjoy it.

I can appreciate the fact that a lot of research was put into this book and it was really smart.
The plot twist was also really good. I knew it was going to be something big but it didn't even cross my mind that this is how it was going to end.

I liked it and I'm curious to see how the story is going to evolve

I'm in love with this series

I don't even know where to start

The Iron Squad, the fliers, the signets, Andarna?????
I thought I had lots of questions after finishing the last book but this one? I feel like Violet

I don't really know how to explain how this series makes you feel all the emotions the characters are feeling, especially in the last couple of pages when they were preparing, I was sooo anxious and then I cried and my heart broke and I stared into nothing for a good 10 minutes trying to wrap my head around that ending.

I was so so close to giving this a 5 star but it had tiny little flaws that didn't let me do that

First of all, this was my first wolf book and I'm obsessed.
I love Eridian, I've never been able to visualize such a magical place and I think the author did an amazing job portraying the world this was set in.

Now let's talk about the realest enemies to lovers that never even had a chance to become lovers and now they're enemies again.
Darius was a fucking nightmare since the very beginning so I wasn't really surprised but I was heartbroken. I'm not sure how the author is going to go about his redemption and I can't wait to read about when he finds out she wasn't lying

4.5⭐️
I loved this
I hate myself for reading this now instead of waiting for the second to come out, I don't want to wait to find out the aftermath of those last pages

The tension between Kai and Pae is unmatched, it was making me anxious.
It's so adorable how he is so desperate for her and doesn't care in the slightest if he shows it. And he did. Repeatedly.

The world building wasn't that strong but I loved it anyway, it's not new but it's still different somehow.
I also don't want Kitt to be evil, I feel like it's building up to that but I hope it doesn't happen

This was really hard to rate, I wanted to rate it 2 stars but I guess it can be 3?

I really like the magic system but it could've been written and explained so much better. The story felt messy and disconnected.
I liked Willow and Gray, they had a lot of potential.

I think the bigger issue is the writing cause everything else was really interesting and I would've loved this book if it was more in depth and thought out.

I think i'm on the middle ground side of these ratings, just a very average read.

Their relationship isn't lasting past that epilogue, it felt soooo basic

I struggled to finish this, I just wasn't invested.
It started out interesting and then I feel like it just dragged and at one point I was thinking of dnfing but I was already 70% in

I think I didn't rate this lower cause surprisingly I can relate to Rowan (as a person, not as someone's boss because he was trying waaayy too hard to be the worst)

5

2.5⭐️

I had trouble deciding what to rate this. It really hit me when I realized I finished it so fast cause I thought I'd been reading this for days. It could've been shorter in my opinion.
There were a lot of unnecessary side problems that made this book longer than it needed to be.

The switch between indifference and infatuation was so abrupt, it didn't make any sense. All throughout the book, everyone (including themselves) talked about how much they despised each other and that was the whole point of the marriage of convenience but towards the end they kept saying they always had feelings for each other??

I didn't exactly dislike it but I didn't enjoy it enough either.
The epilogues were good though.

I'm pretty sure this is my first friends to lovers and I loved it. Very fun and cozy

My only issue is what the hell kind of name is Breaker. But other than that, I loved them both.

Reading this felt like watching a sitcom, that's the only way I can think of describing it

I didn't really feel invested in anything in this book (romance, characters, plot)
It was entertaining enough and I was never bored so I think it deserves 3 stars, but that's all I got

3.5

5 very well deserved stars

The magic system, the world, the characters, the plot : 10/10

There is not a single part of this book that slows down. There's always something happening and it's ALWAYS interesting.
The plot twists???? Absolutely took me out every time
I have SO MANY questions
I can't even function right now with that last page. Can't even write a decent review

Side note: why is Riorson such an attractive name, like obviously he's very book boyfriend standard material but that name really gets me

What was the plot? Was there a plot?
It's 70% smut, 20% building up to smut and 10% backstories

I can say it's very educational

It was about time I picked up a good hockey romance and this was just the right amount of everything I needed

I might have gotten into this with very high expectations and set myself up for failure.

I feel like the development of Iris and Romans “love story” was so sudden. Like one day they're writing friendly letters and then the next they love each other so much??
I loved the idea of the typewriter romance but I wish it was executed differently.

Also I'm so sure Forest is hiding some other shady shit and if Roman comes back an evil sexy army general in the next book I will fold

I think the twists kept this book interesting and it did pull me out of an almost slump and for that I am eternally grateful.

Gaslighting myself into thinking it's a book slump that's making me dnf this and not the fact that it's bad. There are too many good reviews and I stopped trusting my brain

Kind of average really...

This was my first Freida McFadden and I don't really gravitate towards thrillers but the hype around this made me have high expectations.

The thing that annoyed me was that it was so incredibly predictable and the number one thing people talk about regarding this book is the shocking plot twist. There were no shocking plot twists.

It was an easy read and entertaining so I won't give it a bad rating but that's just about it.
An average rating for an okay book

what the hell was that??????

Definitely not romance and definitely not what I was expecting. I loved it

I can't get past the dialogue between these two, the banter was awesome cause it's J.T Geissinger obviously but bunny/rabbit and every other smutty dialogue made me want to cringe into a little ball and die

The story though was 10/10. And the reveal with Fiona and Claire? I haven't been this excited about a plot twist in a while

Big fan of this book mainly for the vibes but also for the fact that I would've never seen this coming

DNF at 43%


how many times do you need us to know that she's tiny/short and he used to be a manwhore but not for her cause she's so special (which is completely out of the blue because she has no personality). That's the whole story up until the point I forced myself to read.
She gives off extreme pick me vibes which is painful to read

This book had absolutely no business being 600 pages

And then I read somewhere in the comments that this was a wattpad book and I was like oooohhhhhhhhhh okay.
That isn't wattpad slander because I was a 1D fanfic slut for a long time but it definitely explains the plot/characters of this book.

Oh and every time he said pipsqueak I died a little on the inside

2.5⭐️

I HATE rating books less than 3 stars if I've actually finished it cause if it's entertaining then it's enough for me but I just can't. The amount of time it took to read this is insane. I really really wanted to like this book more but it was soooo long for no reason

Dianna is fun but Liam did nothing for me. I felt like we were just going in circles with the plot and I powered through all of that for what?? A lot of things didn't make sense or didn't add up.
I hate flashbacks in books but I hate it even more when they're not necessary. We could've gotten his history in 5 sentences and it still would've been a bit much.

Did I hate this? No.
Did I have a good reading experience? Also no.