Bonded Fate

I told myself I would wait until closer to the release of Shattered Souls (Book 3 in this series) to read this book, and now I am kicking myself because I need more! This ending... It took such an unexpected turn at the end, and I am unwell and in desperate need of book 3 in my hands! This book is the second installment in the Guardians of the Maiden series by @beck_michaels I read and reviewed book 1 (Divine Blood) earlier this year, and I really enjoyed it; but, y'all I devoured this book! I loved everything about it! This book continues to follow the stories of our Maiden, Dyna, and all of her guardians. As with book 1, this is multi-POV which I love. I feel like the story is so well rounded because you get to see it on all sides, and the characters feel so well-developed! There is an element of women empowering other women between Lucenna and Dyna that I really appreciated. The author writes strong female characters well, and I was glad our FMC started to come into her own strength by the end of this book. There is so much tension between the two main characters... its so thick. This is such a slow burn romance, but worth it in my opinion. This book has some fun tropes like “one bed at the inn” and the nightmare trope. I am already forming theories in my head for what will happen in Shattered Souls, which comes out in August. This is a YA fantasy, 16+ for themes and very mild sexual content.

This is gonna be an annoyed review because I'm upset that dumb shit dragged down the rating.
All that's keeping me from giving this five stars is my desperate desire to either strangle some of the characters or slap sense into them. Especially Dyna. Why are they all behaving like immature brats whose biggest problem is the school test they didn't study for.
Need to add drama to somehow advance? Lets have Dyna storm off alone because all the other times that was obviously a good idea and didn't land her in trouble every goddamn time.
Need to drag out the romance some more? Add some more misunderstandings that don't make that much sense unless the characters are made dumber than they actually are. Which results in the characters feeling slightly off and the misunderstandings not even making sense. (Honestly Dyna proves that she has much more EQ than those dumb scenes make it seem during enough moments when she is in even more distress)
But my biggest grime is that the standards to which our fun group is held are different.
If someone is drunk and makes a mistake for which they apologize (and the apology is grudgingly accepted) while the other party deliberately stabs them while sparring and doesn't need to apologize (which is accepted as perfectly reasonable by everyone involved) it really rises my hackles. Same if a character always reacts violently when something annoys or angers them, and it's treated like a normal thing.
Also in case it wasn't spelled clearly enough but this is one of the rare cases where the characters seem really off during some scenes. I would say OOC but that phrase makes no sense when it's only one author writing.
But some scenes really struck me, like Zev not letting Cassiel heal Dyna when she's close to dying. Sure it was because he felt something off about them, but Zev always put Dyna's well-being above all else. Even in his wolf form that's what he is driven by. It made zero sense to read that scene except that it was used as a crippled plot device to introduce the fae.

I love the story, but the characters are really trying their best to suck all my enjoyment out of it.
In conclusion: everybody needs some goddamn therapy