This book will not be for everyone, it may not be the right book for you until the right time of your life. I was frustrated and unable to connect in with Gemma the first time I read it, but when I tried again her resiliency and strength, and truly just finding joy when you can spoke to a part of me that I could understand and cherish better. I truly did fall in love with the story.
The stakes are even higher in book two and there are new mysteries to unravel. It's safe to say that my obsession with this series is going nowhere.
Beauty—and proud thief with a smart mouth—meets the beast in chapter one, and that was all it took to hook me. This book delivers both the complex characters, a twisty turn plot, a giant world with a nuanced political and power structure, as well as the vibes we crave.
Okay, I read this book over the most perfect birthday weekend I could have asked for. Which meant sitting out by the pool with all my friends as we all read. It also meant that I was able to read this in not quite on sitting, but one day. I have been emotionally compromised for... Continue Reading →
I am jealous of all of you who are able to read it for the first time this book has consumed me mind and soul, and at it's core shows how love and kindness might even be able to alter the course of fate and death.
Kicking off Romantasy Summer with an epic fairy tale.
I was blown away by the relationships, multiple plot lines, expansive world building, the tried and true conflict of miscommunication, as well as a spice level to rival your favorite romcom.
I laughed, I cried, I was so deeply invested in this story. I still think about it, often.
I was lucky enough to get this ARC at NYCC last fall but finally got around to reading it while I was stranded at the Dallas airport in March. Team I inhaled it.
I delayed writing this review. This time it wasn't the ADHD, it wasn't that I hadn't gotten everything else prepped, it was because I didn't want to write it. Which breaks my heart. This story had everything going for it that I was going to love it. Hades and Persephone retelling, spice, fated mates, sass,... Continue Reading →
my way by Starlight 