Corinthya

The world is part of a different series and they intersect but even if it might benefit to read the other first I didn't feel too lost even if I didn't finish the other one.

• A modern day world with a caveat, near the city our story is happening in there is a large city only for supernatural creatures that normal humans know nothing about (like no one ever saw a map). Various species are talked about but the main ones are vampires and the hunters of this secret organization that hunt them.
• This first book is mostly about the initial meeting and relationship between the main characters but it has some plot that was interesting and I look forward to reading about. It also initiates a different plot that is coming slightly from the previous series and unfortunately I didn't find as interesting but seems will be a major plot for the next book.
• Our FMC is a badass and we get some time and good examples of this which was very much appreciated. She's going through some major life changes and we see her fighting the realization that her worldview might not be fully correct and that felt realistic.
• When it comes to MMC we get some time with him but in the end since we are only seeing things from the female lead's perspective there is a lot of doubts and going back and forth on how we do see him. This for me felt a little detrimental because I finished the book feeling like we didn't really know him, even if he was sweet and genuine I felt it lacked something.
• The ending had some good plot twists that had been somehow hinted at during the book but never really had time to fully reveal themselves so they still caught me by surprise.

I will continue on but with some caution since my particular experiences with this author are mostly just ok.

Some of the weirdest names I've read, all of them.

1. Very very fast paced character focused book. It's straight up insta-love and lust.
2. We have some sweet guys, at least one is a kinky one and a grumpy one that has to cause some issues or this would be too smooth sailing.
3. The female lead is fine, a soft type that is somehow a little too perfect for me, even with some past trauma it doesn't feel like we see the effects of it.
4. Near the end we have the typical third act trope and we follow that by reconciliation and one of the only tropes that can almost immediately stop me from going on, pregnancy.

This was an ok ride for me with more sex scenes than i expected.

Holy miscommunication trope.

There isn't much i can say about this, it's a fast paced story, with a sweet relationship that suffers from the above mentioned miscommunication trope a lot. Despite being fast paced I wouldn't say it's insta love and there is some plot focused on the main issue of the book, being trapped in an unknown place.

DNF at 27%

• The guy comes of as a demanding, possibly controlling, with aggressive tendencies that only orders the main character around.
• The girl just goes along with anything even if she didn't want to, or didn't feel comfortable. Also kinda judgy of herself and thinks like a cliché guy(it's all sex and horniness).

I couldn't go on.

Despite the synopsis there is more than pure smut...

• The main character, Newt, was a bit weird to me, he felt insecure about being different from his family and kept some distance because of this, however all we heard about wasn't just because he wanted to be a werewolf, he wanted to be alpha so I felt a bit disconnected from him.
• Colin was mostly sweet, and the relationship benefited from that.
• The bad guy didn't feel very threatening and while blackmailing our main character he somehow believed in him?! This felt confusing because of the confidence he seemed to have that a breakthrough was not only possible but imminent. The conclusion of this arc was ok, it made sense but was very much rushed and still I didn't feel satisfied with it.

For a book with some plot but mostly not it was ok.

A solid bloody ride.

• Our FMC is a manic pixie type, we hear she's quite good at what she does but despite how many times we hear it I felt we didn't see it enough. Beyond that she is likeable enough with a weird positive attitude and very few sad times even if she does have some mental issues.
• Felix is her partner that already loves her and has an established solid relationship, from him we see a lot of depth in issues and personality which may be good in some ways but I felt we spent a little too much time in his head and repeating the insecurities he was feeling. Still that does create a bigger bond from the reader to this character making his progression particularly satisfying.
• The alphas, most of them felt distinctive but two of them could have been the same character and we wouldn't have minded. This does not mean all four weren't likeable, just that some important personality traits were shared, It did not help that we spend more time or meaningful time with the other two. Still liked them overall.
• Conflict was a bit divided in this, we have an issue that is purely personal and pertaining to the relationship of the main characters, that was the longest one but not the most engaging for me since they have a tendency to become circular.
• The second main conflict was hinted at but only at the very end does it actually make a proper appearance. Somehow it didn't fully feel rushed and got some really satisfying conclusion. The bad guy was sufficiently competent and was not super easy and quick to go down.

This took me a bit of forcing because of the personal issues but everything else was good.

A rocky start that gave way to an ok book.

• This is a multi POV book and we switch between characters a lot but we still have a few that get more time than others. This is present with the 4 alpha guys story wise too. We have more development of one or two and the others just kind of fade in the background. Despite that they have distinct personalities making it easy to tell them apart.
• The 2 omegas suffer a somewhat similar situation but still get more attention than the alphas.
• We don't have much external conflict, it is mostly about each person's issues and personalities. The few times we have antagonists they were very one dimensional, abrupt since we had no idea they existed and dispatched very quickly.
• Relationship wise we have a lot of misunderstandings, and lack of proper communication, this leads to some yearning and frustration for both the characters and the reader (me). It took a bit of time to build up and it wasn't all that satisfying when they did get together.

In the end it was a ok book, with ok characters....

Dark themes, with a sweeter filling.

• Our FMC in this is actually strong and powerful and we get to see that throughout the book. She doesn't suffer too much from the strong so can't have emotions, instead when emotions happen and we have a reluctant reaction it's from trauma.
• The love interests are distinguishable from each other and from the previous books in this series. They are all dealing with their own issues and traumas in different ways, some of which were quite a surprise to me. Even if some of the feelings felt a little violent even when it comes to the romance it still did not tip into the dark romance type which is very much appreciated since it was not classified as such, even if it did deal with some dark themes in the relationship.
• When it comes to conflict this book presented plenty of enemies and even if most of them felt a bit one dimensional and the resolution of their issues felt a bit too fast, we still have the one who turned out to be the main enemy that provided some surprises up until the end, even if I would have enjoyed a more definite conclusion.

This actually had quite a bit of plot and a nice connection to the overall series.

Sweet and uncomplicated

• A fun and slightly too perfect female lead, her only fault was really being different from other society girls. Still despite this she was still fun to read about.
• The love interests are all different and lend something to the story so they were useful.

1. We get some nice pinning for each other, some banter that is actually sexual tension, some trauma that makes it hard to accept the relationship and still we have a nice build up of their relationship with the main female lead.
2. This doesn't fully match the bisexual side, there is still banter but some of the previously established relationships we never really see since they disappear once the new dynamic starts.

• Character focused instead of plot. The biggest conflict we have besides the relationship stuff is minor and solved somewhat easily and since it happens right at the end it didn't fully satisfy that part.

Overall it was a nice read with characters I enjoyed and wouldn't mind seeing again. It does end in a way that leads to a possible other book for some new characters.

This book is part of a series but only because they're in the same world, previous book characters are only mentioned and do not appear.

• We have a FMC that has some romantic trauma, making her a bit insecure and hesitant when it comes to new relationships, this is one of the major "conflicts" of the beginning of the book. Other than that, she is actually assertive and confident once the first issues are mostly solved, making her likeable and somewhat relatable.
• The biggest issue in the book turns out to be the transition of Darren into an Omega and subsequent issues. For me this was well written.
• The other male leads were distinguishable enough that they didn't all blend together for me, still letting me have some i liked less than others.
• The pacing was ok, because we had a lot to deal with before advancing in the romance area it took a while, but once the relationship actually started I felt that some issues just kind of drifted away leaving very little lingering effects and speeding up the whole thing.

It was an enjoyable read.

The details matter.

• The world is fine, the typical alphas are best and omega are next and betas are just there. Nothing groundbreaking just typical.
• When it comes to the characters, some were really good and others just a little flat to me.
• Any of this was broken for me by the writing, the language was good and had some good points, but the big issue was the details.

1. Time was everywhere and very little of it made sense, "they arrived at 12h and 3 hours later it was 4:47..."(not an actual quote) and many other instances where it was one day and the next paragraph it was a completely different day or hour. Just confusing.
2. While the time was passing apparently there were things happening that we only heard about later as if we knew this information.
3. These characters where somehow omniscient and knew things that we ourselves only knew because we got multiple POV's. The amount of times the FMC talked about how Jonah was holding a fracturing pack, but when Joan himself only realized it last chapter was weird. And also this same thought was repeated about 4 times in as many chapters.
4. Some little details kept getting rewritten, very beginning one of the guys cooks when he's stressed (also our FMC) and a few chapters later they couldn't cook for their lives. They made their offices in the second floor and a few chapters later it was the third...

This was a bit of a long rant but for a book that had nice language and premise the writing details really took me out of it.

Short and sweet,

• Mafia man with some serious family trauma that apparently only shows in his profession and all related tendencies and, with his treatment of women. This made for an enjoyable male lead, he was very sweet to the female lead and still showed some toughness outside of that making this somewhat believable.
• Nina is an artist, not only in profession but apparently also in acting, something we get a few scenes of.
• The focus of the book is the characters, mostly their relationship so we don't have a very defined conflict to drive the story. We have a few encounters with some "bad guys" and any altercations are solved by our "good" mafia guys.
• It's a fast paced story that despite talking about some serious issues keeps it light and breezes right through the process of recovery.

I'm here for the romance so that was satisfying.

A dragged out and unsatisfying end.

• A bad guy that has been talked about and feared for decades, amassed an unnatural amount of power and followers, is willing to sacrifice everything to.... appear all of 3 chapters and die in 5 hits without causing any damage to our main characters. Underwhelming.
• Relationships that have been established since the first meeting and lend very little to the actual story. Even the intimate scenes sometimes felt they came at the wrong time and messed with the rhythm of the plot.
• There were some points that were inconsistent, one moment we get information about some details and then they just forget about it and have to learn the same thing again.

In conclusion, I only finished it to see if there were any surprises coming but it left me feeling bored, like very little happened.

Keep on keeping on slowly.

• Not much development in the worldbuilding, which from the works I've read it's not uncommon with this author.
• As for the main character I don't see much change, but we did get a few more shows of her being powerful as it was said before.
• When it comes to the love interests I still have a bit of a hard time distinguishing between them when it's not explicitly indicated. The psychotic personalities don't feel very true to description.
• The conflict is still not very present this book, mostly we have a boogeyman type of villain that hasn't appeared even after we heard about him a lot. Only a few instances that still seem more psychological and still doesn't feel very threatening for me.

Slowly and still not super satisfying but because it doesn't feel finished enough I'll keep reading.

An okay start.

• The worldbuilding is being done slowly as this focuses more on the characters but we still get a rough idea of how it is set up, still left me some questions that i hope are answered in the next books.
• Our female main character starts out somewhat self aware but as the story goes on she seems to lose some of that. She is supposed to be strong but we only see it a few times, mostly we hear about the fact from her.
• The love interests seem too similar to each other so except when we are told who we are interacting with I personally can't tell. Despite that they seem likeable enough.
• As for the conflict, this book feels more like setup the whole way, we hear about a bad guy and suffer minor mental damages but it doesn't feel like it has started yet.

I'll keep going but hope there are some developments of these points.

A good sequel that should have been part 2,

• We pick up right from the ending of the last book (further making them feel like 2 parts of one) and we finally learn a reason for her being the last one of her species. It feels highly biased on purpose.
• The main character grows a bit in power in this book by learning a little about the past and trying new magic but I still felt like she was underutilized for someone that is supposed to be extremely powerful.
• When it comes to relationships,

1. The one friend she had from last book didn't make much of an appearance in this one so that sucked.
2. There is some growth in her 2 relationships with the two guys from last book.
3. The guys we were unsure about are still in the same category, the might or might not be.
4. There are 2 additions that I actually liked until the moment of them being added to the harem because after all the personality they were showing and connection they were building by the 80% mark the speed ramps up which kinda left an iffy taste in my mouth.

• The conflict is still not the strong suit of this series, there are some hardships our characters go through that gave it a bit of texture but the main issue from last book that was left to this one was kinda solved right at the beginning of this one and only deepened right at the ending just in time to leave un in a cliffhanger.

I still found this enjoyable and would like to continue, however the third book that was supposed to release in October 2025 is nowhere to be found and there are no news that I could find about it.

An enjoyable fast paced ride.

• A modern world where supernatural creatures live by keeping the humans separate from themselves and have control of society. Besides that we don't go into too much detail about these things.
• The main character just discovers that she is not human and while she does go through an adjustment period it doesn't last too long to keep the book's fast pacing. Also discovers that she is supposed to be super strong and powerful to the point of having to hide from everyone, but despite that we don't really see much of that come into play in this book.
• A lot of the focus is on her building relationships, with the 2 guys that right away are absolute goners for her (no slow burn here in emotions), as well as a few more guys that we are not so sure about but somehow also could possibly be love interests in the future.
• The conflict here is mostly left for the ending making it feel like a part one book instead of a full book. Because of this we have very little to no answers and no real feel for motivation except, survival of our main character and envy from whoever is the power behind the conflict that has just started.
• The language and overall feel is very casual which makes this a fast read for me since there is not overcomplicated language or mystery so far.

I'll continue on and hopefully enjoy the rest of the series.

Light and sweet, mostly

• The female main character was one of triplets and even though she mentions once or twice that she feels like part of the set and not a standout I didn't feel it. She didn't feel very insecure to me, but we also don't get too much focus on her family.
• Duke Stone is aptly named as his personality is quite the same, he is stoic and taciturn but underneath there is a heart of gold and some unknown charm. This is extra obvious by the time jumps we get where the relationship progresses in our absence so we mostly see the changes and they're already being treated as the new normal.
• The conflict in this is mostly from their relationship, the misunderstandings and small fights. From the beginning we get some secrets they're not sharing and when they talk about them they're quickly followed by a new secret for no good reason except to provide a little more conflict before the final reveal of a bad guy.

In conclusion, this was an ok read, entertaining enough but nothing groundbreaking.

Very quick and sweet.

• This lacked a bit of depth for me, despite the initial premise being serious it didn't fully convince me. Didn't help that after that first conflict it just fizzled out and left a bit of an empty feeling.
• In the relationship we get a "lot" of yearning that feels very lust fueled and their actual relationship felt the same way for me. Not to mention their obsession with breeding being kinda the reason they get together.Because the male lead is actually sweet towards the girl I wouldn't consider this dark romance.

Overall it was a bit underwhelming but nothing particularly bad to say about it, mostly just felt like it lacked.

A continuation that honestly became a little underwhelming.

• We pick up right where we left the last book. With the reemergence of issues that made this feel a bit repetitive right from the start.
• The characters don't feel like they evolved much from one book to the next making it honestly feel like these two parts should be only one book put together. But honestly they were the highlight of this series.
• We get introduced to more problems with bigger consequences that impact the whole society of this book (that honestly felt a little close to home). These were bigger issues than the previous ones but given this is the hopeful start of a series they did not get solved, so they only served to make the bleak situations in this world feel unsurmountable and frustrating.

Overall, I felt underwhelmed with this, because the issues from the first book were mostly resolved right at the start of this one and then we had to wait until almost the end to see the culmination of the others, this felt like it really went nowhere.

A bit of a wild ride.

• We start off on a very bad note, there's plenty of abuse in various forms that is quite explicit so I don't recommend this for anyone not ready to read about some of the worst things in detail. Despite that it is not a dark romance, just a dark world.
• Our main female lead despite being very traumatized with good reason, shows surprising strength in character that was refreshing. Beyond her personality she has all the quirks of being an omega, including getting over some of her intimacy trauma by sheer power of hormones.
• The guys were all pretty easy to tell apart from each other. The were the reason for this not being dark romance since the actual relationship was very sweet between them.
• When it comes to the bad guys...this was a part one of this series and so this didn't feel like it actually went somewhere in that department, leaving the resolution to the next book.

This felt like a wild ride but mostly because of the explicit content more than the story.

This was a bit of a ride for me.

• This is called by the author a dark romance, while it has a few inklings of if at the beginning I'm not sure I would call it that. The darkest parts of this book were the backstory at the beginning and the event that leads to everyone meeting. That had some really dark moments but it was somewhat quick to pass.

• Relationship wise, we have 2 pairs of guys that come together in different ways. One of the pairs is part of an established relationship with our female character, these two had different personalities and the worst I can say about them is that they like things i don't. The second pair of guys is the reason for the dark romance tag and they do fall within that genre for a little bit. My issue is that after that I don't feel the groveling and revenge were fitting as punishment.

• Our female character was lauded as strong and badass but we hear about it more than we see, though we do see a little of it. I wasn't convinced.

Unconvinced, that is the best description of what I felt, I went expecting something, got a hint of it and then it didn't fully follow on promises made.

A very very sweet book.

• The world is light and not very important during this book.
• The main character is in a bad situation to start but it's very glossed over and over very fast.
• As soon as we meet the male characters we get insta lust and very soon after love.
• The kid character was mostly an afterthought and also suffered from the insta connection.

Overall, it was too sweet, nothing bad happened, everything was convenient and solved in no time. Kinda boring.

It was fine,

• The world is not super developed or my cup of tea.
• It was mostly about the relationship building and the main character accepting that she has weird tastes.
• I liked the second Mavka character and that little bit of plot.
• Also liked the final discoveries of their origins, even if they were not very detailed or expected.

Honestly it was fine, almost a bit boring for me.

A light read,

• The world is interesting with many different species we hear about, even if we don't see many interactions between them yet. Since this is a romance series that follows a different couple and species in each book, there is hope that in future books we see even more different beings.
• The actual romance was good. A sweet relationship with some but not too harrowing obstacles in their way.
• I liked the Sci-fi aspect of discovery in this a lot, the interactions of the different characters getting to know and understand each others' differences was entertaining for me.
• The actual plot wasn't very heavy, and resolved quite quickly.

Overall it was a good, light romance with some plot but mostly character focused.