If I had to read “he smelled of smoke and clove” one more f*^cking time, I would have torn the book in half. 

I appreciated the world building and the fantastical elements of the story. I liked the characters for the most part, standouts being everyone secondary to the MMC and FMC. The author’s writing style is repetitive and full of purple prose. Please learn to edit yourself… maybe invest in a thesaurus. We don’t need repeated descriptions of how a character smells, reference to him tasting like blood when you kiss (PSA: if you taste blood while kissing someone, stop biting so hard), and references to being the light or candle eyes. Just stop!!