The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

I love it when book characters do enemies-to-lovers well. I want to not only see but believe that they dislike each other. How they're annoyed with each other and how that turns to tolerating each other... And then love. Hart and Mercy do it so well – how could I not love it? One thing I love is pet names in books. I like them even more with enemies-to-lovers as you can be SURE the irritating nicknames will turn into being said lovingly. In here Mercy uses Hart-ache, and Hart says Merciless and my heart practically soared.

Bannen did a great job with Hart and Mercy's personalities. Even though I know I don't like communication like this, I still wanted them to work it out, to not be mad at each when it would eventually crash and break apart. I liked how they poured their hearts out to each other in the letters (not knowing it was the other, of course) and then disliking each other when meeting physically. I kept yelling at them “DON'T YOU KNOW (but of course they don't).

I'll admit the world-building is quite confusing and I certainly didn't understand everything, nor do I intend to understand everything. I've learnt there's an art in letting yourself not understand books fully and it can be great! Honestly I could in fact write a whole post about that