”’Perhaps,’ she said, ‘or perhaps I will go with you to the end of the world. After all, you’ve made me curious.’”

This was my first Schwab book and I am so excited to say that it did not disappoint!!!
I loved everything about this book. LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I have zero complaints because even if there was a point in the story where I was like uhhh what, literally by the end of the next chapter it all made sense. Great concept, great writing and great execution. I’m on cloud 9 after reading this.

So if you are going to continue on with reading this, I’m really just about to praise every aspect of this book. I hope you’re ready.

The Writing: Okay WHAT. I know people praise Schwab’s writing from the top of mountains, but I was still somehow blown away by how incredible it was. Everything about the presentation of this story just SCREAMED about how well thought out this plot was. Nothing felt rushed. Nothing felt out of place. Every single word in this story was important to the plot, world or characters. The pacing of the story was excellent, I was never bored. The revelation of everything was so well done, it kept me guessing but in a nice curious way, not a confused way. Event were revealed in a way that allowed the reader to make assumptions of what might happen later on, but not in a way that distracted from what was going on at the moment. This was just such a pleasant reading experience for so many reasons, and I am definitely excited to dive back into the authors work, both with the rest of this series and her other books!!

The Characters: FIRST OF ALL, I LOVE KELL WITH MY WHOLE ENTIRE HEART. He is so noble and pure and he kind of reminds me of a little puppy who makes all of these rash decisions but only because he feels some type of way and then spends the rest of his time regretting it or trying to make it better and I JUST WANT TO HOLD HIM AND TELL HIM ITS OKAY. Lila is also a really great character but I love her differently than I love most characters. And by that I mean, right now I appreciate her character and her role but I don’t know just how much I ~actually enjoy~ her. She definitely grows a lot in this book but I think I need to see more growth to really know how I’ll feel about her. As for the secondary characters I fucking LOVED the dane twins like…so evil and I was here for it. I loved how badass Holland was and I’m super excited to see what comes next from him, I think the events in this book set him up for some GREATNESS. I loved the Red London royal family, Rhys is so pure and I want so much more of him from the next books!!!
The relationships in this book are all so great. I feel the chemistry and the attachment between everyone. Nothing feels forced on readers or out of place. Every interaction feels natural and fits with where the characters are at in the story.

Plot and Worldbuilding SO WELL DONE. I commented on this a bit while praising the writing but it is just so clear that this was really well thought out. There aren’t any periods of info dumps, we find out what we need to know when we need to know it. The pacing is excellent, I’d probably consider this a slowburn kinda book, but it doesn’t really feel like it. I was pulled into the story from the first line, and continued to fall deeper and deeper into the world with every page. It was just so well done.

IN SUMMARY I LOVED THIS BOOK. OKAY BYE.

Also this was a buddy read w/ Chelsea!