A huge thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Orbit Books for providing this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

As the second book in this series, it’s just as cute with sexual chemistry as the first. In this one, we follow our lovable werewolf Felix as he finds his fated mate (or does he?), as unfortunately he finds his mate after being hit in the head with a love potion. Is it just the potion? Or is it a true mate? Drama, heartbreak, and sex ensue.

This gives the story some delicious angst to go along with all the nice sexual chemistry - as Brie falls in love, she’s never certain if Felix will feel the same way after he’s cured. I, personally, LOVE me some angst/hurt-comfort so I was living for this dynamic. (Especially since we, as the reader, absolutely KNOW it’s going to work out - but SHE doesn’t. Glorious.)

While personally, I didn’t quite like this story as much as the first, if you like this romantasy series/concept/worldbuilding - you’ll like this book. There’s nothing here that would make this NOT work for you, in my opinion. Some of the cringiness that was present in the first book feels a little stronger in this one, but nothing that’ll make it unbearable.

Overall, this book was a fun, light, romantic read with some deeper plot thrown in to add drama and danger, and if you liked the first book in this series you’ll like this one as well. We get into Felix’s head a bit more, we learn more about how the world is responding to the fact that demons live amongst humans now, and we see some of our previously loved characters back in this book. What else could we ask for?

There were a few scenes, and a few things that happened that made this more of a 4 star than a 5 star slam dunk for me, but like I said - if you liked the first, you’ll like this one.

ALSO. BRIE AND URSA AVOIDING THEIR LOVE INTERESTS. Once again, I’m humbly requesting a book with Ambrose in it.


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(Spoilers: I’ll list the things that I personally found to take me out of the story, but TBH I’d only read this if you’ve read the book to see if you agree with me. None of these are anything that I think should be the, if any, reason for you to decide to not read this book in this series. I just need to complain. Don’t read further if you don’t either want A) spoilers, or B) me to nitpick a bit too much. I liked this book, don’t get me wrong. It was fun, it was sexy, it was flirty, and it accomplished everything I read it for. SO. None of these are, like, death knells or marks against it - just things that I, personally, did not like and that made it 4 stars instead of 5.



1. The random Cthulhu tentacle summoning took me a bit out of it. I get bondage, don’t get me wrong - but, like, personally if I’m going to deal with weird tentacle play I want it to make sense with the character doing it. Also, it kind of came out of nowhere? Listen, personally I’d prefer my love interest to be a bit more eldritch horror if we’re going to bring out the tentacle bondage play. Otherwise, it kind of felt a little too hentai anime to me.
2. In the same way, when we DID finally meet the eldritch horror we kind of cringed it a bit too hard for my taste when we started talking about omegaverse fanfiction. I’m. Listen, okay, no judgment, but that felt too on-the-nose for what I’m dealing with. I’m not even kinkshaming and I ALSO wanted to leave when the horror did. It felt a bit too….random, quirky…? for my tastes.
3. I’m sorry. But. The fated mates were a bit TOO fated. I’m all for fated mates, but it kind of loses its mystique when the human character who doesn’t have human mates spends all her time reading werewolf erotica WITH fated mates. A bit too on the nose for me.
4. The whole random incel storyline? Okay, but really? (And the one dude was named Chad…) It just took me out of the book for a bit, I’m sorry. Not to say that the storyline couldn’t have worked, but I felt the whole “these bad guys are incels” made it a bit too on the nose. They could have just hated demons, they didn’t have to spell it out for me that these were bad people.