Jessica

This was fantastic! I can't wait for book club!

For a debut novel I was impressed. Unlike other reviewers I don't think it was mis-marketed. I liked the romance because it was realistic. I'll definitely read Maxwell's next book.

Full disclosure I am biased. I've been friends with the author for many years now.

This book has so many interesting concepts that I don't know where to begin. I also don't know how to talk about it without spoilers. But this is a book that I wouldn't want to know a thing about it so I'm not going to give spoilers. I will say that I love the AI themes. I'm someone who is equal parts fascinated and terrified of AI and this book really played into those two feelings and I loved it. I love how fast paced this book is! The adventure Armand go on is wild. I don't know about anyone else who has read this book, but with everything goin on in the world right now I've been thinking a lot about machines and karma. That's all I'll say about that. Sophia is bad ass and adored her from the very beginning.

I was a fan of the first Armand Ptolemy book, but Mark out did himself with this one. The cover. OMG the cover is gorgeous! Mark designed it himself with the use of AI. Beautiful!!!! I can't wait for the next book.

So Awesome!

I feel like I can't really say anything without spoiling so I'll just say the story is great. I think the transition from web series to book was good. This isn't 5 stars only because of all of the formatting/spelling errors. I know Shenelle is working on that though. Normally I wouldn't take stars off of indie/self-published books because of formatting/spelling errors, but Spellbound is a company and not one person operation. This book should've never went out like this. I can't wait for the fixed copy to debut. I'll gladly give it 5 stars when that happens. I highly appreciate having the book though. I'm just not someone who wants to read a novel a chapter at a time on Substack.

The more I think about this book the less I like it. So that's why I've dropped the star rating by 2. I just can't get over the feeling like it's an unfinished work.