Pauline

Beautiful easy romance with a really great depiction of anxiety and what overthinking sounds like. I love a good fake dating trope, but I wish they had communicated earlier on. Little details like the swearing parrots made this a great, fun read. 

This book is precious. It is beautiful, sad, surprisingly accurate. It's a story of family, rebellion, hardships. A story of survivors, about what destroys us and what keeps us together. And love. 

This was really, really good. I love that the magic was different, the writing made me truly feel the atmosphere of the book. Usually the romance is what keeps me engaged, but this felt different. I wasn't necessarily dying to have the characters get together (although I did appreciate this book's new couple), but I was engaged just the same!! 

That was SO GOOD. The last 20% wow!!!! Some things I saw coming, others not so much!
Also this is why I usually don't read unfinished series - I want to know what happens next hahah.
This is my first Norse setting series so I've really enjoyed that.
The first book was a bit different, this one has more classic trope of fantasy/romantasy but still fairly well executed. 

Can't wait for the next book!

This book is so beautiful, intimate and raw. The writing style is unconventional (apparently that's typical form Olivie Blake?) but reflects the turmoil inside the character's heads.