Echo

Toxic? Yes. But an excellent story? Yes! 5 stars.

I grabbed an ARC of this off of BookSirens and honestly not reading it immediately was a miracle. Then I ended up reading it in a day— if I could have taken off work to read it in one sitting, I would have.

Oh. My. God.
I loved this. The characters sucked me in and I loved them. There was mystery around so many aspects and at times I did wish more time was spent on everything, it almost feels like this is set up so we can get more stories about other characters. You can't tell me nothing is going on with the Imperial Prince and Rabbit's friend/friend's brother. It seem likes we get surface level to the problems going on in the Bakmal gang too and seeing Baikal in action more would have been great.

The romance? Beautiful. Yes, 100% do believe the content warnings need to be read before diving into this one, but for as forceful as Baikal is the two of them are... cute? I'm glad we have so much time with Rabbit admiring he likes Kal though. It made me so happy.

I squealed sooooo much reading this. Will probably be a book I reread in the future. Just wow I loved it. I didn't think I'd love it more than Between the Devil and the Sea, but I do.
I'm obsessed and plan on reading more by this author ASAP.

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Pre-release:
I absolutely cannot wait to read this. I'm so hyped.