Heart So Fierce and Broken

[7.5/10 Rating] [Spoiler-free review]

At first I wasn't really feeling this book as I didn't like how the story was going, but as I read, I found myself liking the characters more, which helped to keep me going. The romance was kinda predictable (I saw it coming from miLeS away before it even began), but was still a good read. I wasn't able to sit down and binge it one-shot as I wasn't really a fan of how the story was progressing, but it was still interesting enough to keep me reading for “short bursts of time”. Like the first book, Rhen's personality was kinda hard to understand??? (Are you caring or cruel??? Why did you suddenly become cruel??) It was really quite confusing. I also did not expect Grey's POV to be written like that as, I understand that he's human and all but he feels like a completely different character from the first book? I'm just gonna assume that its his character development... Lia Mara on the other hand, however, grew on me quite a lot (I was really “eh” with her character beforehand).

OVERALL:
A good read, but I find that it's a bit sad that the main characters of the first book were kinda ‘tossed-aside' ? I understand why this had to happen (I mean the 2nd book was focused on Grey's story, not Rhen's) but I still believe that their story cannot be ignored? As a reader who read the first book and the second in succession, it was quite strange, as the main characters who were so vital in the previous book were practically non-existent in this one. Harper felt quite useless and irrelevant in this novel which was :/
But despite everything, I did enjoy the book. Great series, so you should pick it up! I will be reading the 3rd book in hopes that it might be better!

ALSO: THIS BOOK GETS BONUS POINTS FOR NOT HAVING A LOVE TRIANGLE because I absolutely hate love triangles.