Gray's Blade

3.5/5

Having read “No More Maybes” before, I'd like to say that I liked the first book better. Which I find a bit weird, since I thought I might actually like the story even better told from Cole's point of view.

What fell a bit short for me was Cole's transition from insta-lust to like and finally love. Personally, I did not get - in this book - why he later fell in like and then in love with Aurora. We did not see enough of her or of their interactions to make this plausible for me.
I knew I liked Aurora from what I had read about her in book 1. I didn't get the same feeling about her in book 2.

What I did like was how we got more insights into Cole's world, and how he slowly opened up and made friends with Declan and the others.

Technicalities: There were some editing leftovers where passages from book 1 were taken and retold from Cole's point of view, and another proofread would have been nice.