I once saw a post online that said “being a drama queen isn’t about gender, it’s about vibes”, and I couldn’t agree more. That being said, in my experience, there are good drama queens—the sort that have you rolling your eyes in good fun, because you know you love them anyway—and then there are bad drama queens. The ones that feel like they’re trying too hard, and just come off as extremely obnoxious.

Luca is a bad drama queen.

While I don’t like (and generally try to avoid) rating books less than three stars, I can’t think of anything I truly liked about this one. If it were any longer, or a full-length book, I probably would’ve DNFed. A lot of the dialogue is cringey, the sex scenes are even worse, and the drama felt so pointless. The sex scenes feel like M/M written by a woman that’s trying too hard and doesn’t entirely know what she’s doing. The drama was nothing more than miscommunication at full volume, with added doses of jumping to conclusions that only make it worse.

For all that I wanted these two to have a book, reading this has me glad they only ever got a novella. And convinced that Angel deserves so much better.

(In my review of the first book, I said, “I’m going to hope this one is the exception, and it’ll only get better from here.” Such was, unfortunately, not the case, and I think it’s killed my interest in the rest of the series. I don’t care about Kallum or Isaac, I don’t know anything about Winnie, and while Sunny is great, I don’t love her enough to push through. So it’s just not worth it.)

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