Flaire

So I really wanted to like this, because I mean, lesbian romance! That's one of my favorite things but...

This book dragged for me. None of the characters felt real to me at all, there was very little world building, and the plot was barely there? I felt like the book was way too long for what happened in it. The story was almost 400 pages and I felt the whole plot could have been done in half that.

I was so excited for this but in the end it wasn't for me.

This was delightful! As an adult this is the exact type of children's lit I like to read, but I do believe I would have enjoyed it when I was a child as well.

The narrator is very entertaining, Penelope is quite intelligent though also very sheltered/naive too (in the best way) and the children are adorable! Also I listened to this on audiobook and the woman who preformed it, Katherine Kellgrin, was a excellent! Highly recommend it!

Loved the way it ended on a mystery as well and can't wait to pick up the second one.

Honestly this book was pretty underwhelming compared to the first. The first wasn't perfect, but it had real potential and I was excited to go into this one. It really let me down as I was bored pretty much 80% of the book. August went through some weird character change and I wasn't interested in him at all most of the book.

Also talking about the kiss for a moment. Just before it happened I was thinking to myself how nice it was that this series didn't force a romance that didn't seem to fit just for the sake of every teen fantasy having a romance and then the kiss... so there went that.

The ending was actually decently written to me though sad. I like where August and Kate ended up in their final scene together as it felt like the most authentic and real part of the whole story to me.