Heather

Amazing! Loved this book. Sad I have to wait until the next book is written. Tropes in this book are enemies to lovers, fated mates, morally gray female and male main characters. I thought the world building and plot were unique. Even the secondary characters were great and well written. There is spice 🌶. There is a Pronunciation and World Guide at the back of the book. This book ends on the cliffhanger of all cliffhangers. I am dying to read the 2nd book.

Well this is my 1st Sara Cate book and it will not be my last.  This book was amazing!    Standing in front of an air conditioner at full blast will not cool the heat coming off of me after reading this book.  Having seen this book everywhere I figured it was going to be good, but when a book exceeds your expectations it is such an amazing feeling.  This is an age gap romance, with sex positivity, and loads of amazing spice.  I usually am not a fan of age gap romance ,but this was too good not to love.  I loved Charlie and Emerson's first encounter.  I loved watching Charlie gain her confidence back and follow her curiosity.   My favorite part was the spice, and it was perfection.  It was nice to see that the plot wasn't just sex, but there were family themes also.  Charlie's relationship with her mom and sister Sophie were so amazing.

I felt like the first half of the book was a little weak and some parts were slow paced.  I was not a fan of Feyre pretending to be back with Tamlin.  I was happy that it ended quickly and she was back home Rhys very quickly.  The second half of the book was better paced and had all the action.  I enjoyed Bryaxis, the bone carver, and the weaver.  I was very happy about the injury and death of Ianthe.  Jurian's character totally threw me for a loop.  I was just not expecting him to actually be a good guy.  I am a little mad at Sarah J. Maas for throwing all the feels in this book.  I sobbed when Rhy died, I sobbed when the Suriel died, I sobbed when Amren changed into her new form, I sobbed when their dad arrived with the armada to save his daughters, and I sobbed when he died.  I felt like Nesta and Elain need more substance.  I am waiting to see if Nesta and Cassian's relationship develops further.  Azriel needs some more attention such as a real love interest or a some major event. 

I loved Jane and was invested into her story. The pacing was slow at parts. The plot went from point A to point B. It left very little room for details and was centralized around the relationship with the captain. I kept waiting and waiting for the captain to discovered her secret but it lacked impact once it did happen. I was devastated when Harry died. The emotion was well described and raw.

Such a great book! This is a YA Fantasy Adventure. The writing was great and kept me interested the entire time. I loved Briar's character. I liked the building romance. I was able to guess what was going to happen and then noticed that I still had 15% left of the book. At this point I realized there was a twist coming. I definitely didn't see the twists coming. This book has multiple timelines. Sometimes when switching between the tinelines it wasn't immediately clear which timeline we were in until further in the chapter.