Hmmm. So what started out as a full blown, cavity inducing contemporary rom-com masquerading as Fantasy Romance, turned into a bit of a drudge fest by the halfway mark.

I was super invested in the love letter exchange portion of the book but the reveal, the enemies to lovers vibe was over pretty quickly which let it down for me.

Mercy is the office manager at her father’s undertaking business and Hart is like a zombie fighter type person who drops bodies off from the fantastical world they seem to live in. They hate each other for a stupid reason but shes really nice and homely and hes a total simp so you allow it cause its so sweet.

Some confusing world building thrown in about Old and New Gods and a world obsessed with water for some reason, and you’ve got a fantasy/contemporary that while rather original was just a bit weird. Why are the cars called ducks? Why the water theme? Why the horses called equimares? Why sea polo as the main sport? Why the death theme?! Why any of it outside of the love letters??

It was a sweet enough read but i did find myself skimming much of the end cause i didnt really care or understand about anything else but the romance element of the book. The rest of plot just felt like filler in an attempt to give it purpose so it definitely could have been about 200 pages shorter.

A decent steamy scene/mention but overall i wasnt blow away by it in any way but wouldnt deter anyone from reading it.