Where do I start? This book was utterly disappointing and I DNFed at 70%. Could I have battle through? Yes but after seeing the utter disgust for the plot twist with people who have the same thoughts at me, I made the decision to happily DNF.
I was excited for this book but in no way did this book succeed at anything remotely good. The character development was shallow, to be nice. The characters were the epitome of good girl who isn't like other girls and the man is simply a villain? dark hair and blue eyes that you can't forget about because you are reminded every seen he is in. Our FMC personality is inconsistent in every way and now thinking about it so is our MMCs.
The pacing was tragic, we spent months searching for something in the human world and two weeks in the fae realm and we are in love? The plot packed all depth and it felt things were through in simply for creating a book, zero connection to past instances or any basis for what was happening.
The background knowledge we get is nonexistent. Here's a list of things that are not explained by the 70%: the magic system, the political system, the generic layout of the fae realm, who Eli is (aka who propelled our FMC entire obsession with winged creation which is the ENTIRE STORY), and the differences between magical creatures. To put this into perspective, fae were described as have pointy ears until 60% in...
I unfortunately bought the physical book but was also reading on KU. The formatting in KU was undoubtedly fucked. Dashes in places were they should and weird additions not found in the physical copy.
Save your time and money please.
This is a super close 4 stars but I'm being a selective gal with my stars and this was genuinely so good. Lola Glass has a way of writing extremely addictive and bingeable stories. You immediately become enthralled in the story and character, you can't wait to see how they end up. Love is a blood wolf who has been hiding out from the clan that turned her. Madd is the alpha shifter who immediately feels the mate bond the second he meets Love. Unfortunately, Love reveals herself as a vampire and it goes down hill from there. BUT very quickly it goes up hill with lots of caretaking, groveling, and pinning from Madd. Their love was infectious and the effort Lola's MMCs put in is absolute perfection.
My only complaints are I wish wish wish there was more world building. The politics of the feud between supernatural beings was superficial, I feel it would have propelled the story to get more information and to see some of the action! The romance was perfect, lighthearted but enough depth to keep you intrigued.
I received this as an arc but leaving my review completely voluntarily!
4.5✨
okay this book was everything I needed. I don't think I've ever been so enthralled in a story line, I want to immediately start the next book simply to see where this goes. Vale was a strong bitch, she did what she had to do and the rawness of her emotions was so refreshing. Damiano had a mouth on him which made their banter so perfect. I was a review where they said this man wasn't possessive??? so fucking confused by that because in this man's POV showed everything you needed to know. the pacing was perfect, it made you want to devour the book which I absolutely did. The character development, spice, and side characters created the perfect combination.
I hate to be one of those people that are like you are missing the point but I feel many of the horrible reviews on this book went in with the expectations that were not apt. The first sentence for gods sake says that he like hurting women?? and y'all expected him to be likable and enjoy listening to his story?
This story is incredibly unique as it is an inner monologue of an absolute abysmal man who hurts women for the sake of seeing their pain, a drunk, and overall a shit person. You see him fall in love with hurting people and with a young lady who becomes the victim of his obsession. It is uneasy and will reminder you r/incels and that is exactly what I feel the author set out to do. You get to see this man indirectly go crazy and one women turn his similar tactics on him. He is unreliable and absolutely disgusting. Every moment of this book made me feel some emotions (mostly bad), that is a job well done.
