"(...) and the unexpected tenderness from him—always so stern, so in control—had french braided her lungs together, leaving her heart to thump pitifully from within the tangle."

this was indeed better than the anticipated, a pretty fun read, but the start still had way too much info-dump and dragged on for a while there, i was disappointed and thinking i was going to hate it, but it pulled through in the end and i enjoyed it. it still gets 3 starts because i disliked the beginning, but it got saved from a DNF tag around the 40% mark.

i know a lot of people were like this was batter than i thought it would be! but this was pretty much what i expected, lol. which isn't bad, truly. but i don't think i'll be checking out the extended other installments in this series, sorryyyy.

though, i will say, this was still original and gets soo many points for how steamy it was, the smut was pretty fun and steamy. kudos!