aislinghelen's Reviews (1.01k)

Amazing!!! I loved it. Honestly it surpassed my expectations, which was hard because I was beyond excited for Mavericks book. 

I don't really know how I feel about this one. It wasn't bad, but I also didn’t love it. I felt like I was missing something at points because suddenly, there would be conflict when there shouldn’t have been. I did like Rosie and Ford, and I also liked Cora. I felt like there needed to be more family side characters like they were there, but not enough compared to the other series. Overall I just feel kind of meh about it. 

I will say that Ford was a great book boyfriend in terms of his actions, great grand gestures. 

COMMUNICATE FOR FUCK SAKE!!! 

I should have DNFed

Loved Carter. I love a reformed fuck boy so much. But she was annoyingly insecure and why was there a (kind of) third act breakup 

She needed to grovel

antastic, amazing, incredible, what are more words? 

I absolutely loved this one. I'm honestly obsessed with the whole series, but at this point, who isn’t? I love Teddy so much, she reminds me a bit of Willa (from Heartless by Elsie Silver) combined with Emmy (from Done and Dusted, aka her best friend). I need Cam and Dusty’s book right the fuck now; Cam deserves everything. I actually don't think there is a character I don't love in this series. We really see more of Gus in this one, obviously, and he is so good. Weirdly, he reminds me a lot of Ada but less anxious and more stubborn. 

There was so much that happened in this book, and I'm not going to break it all down, but I will say that it almost made me cry at one point, and there were a lot of ups and downs. I do wish we got more Wes, but I’m always going to want more Wes.

That ending was so disappointing, ruined the series for me honestly

I really enjoyed this but I knocked a star off because I felt like it moved a bit too fast. I think it should have either been longer or there should have been less in this book. 

Lena is great; I love it when her personality comes out rather than just the careful princess. Endre, Sirrius and Zovai are fantastic too. Sirrius and Zovai started mixing together for me a little bit but that’s probably because I was reading so fast. I seriously could not slow down, it was so good. 

I love the side characters and we better get more of them. Specifically Varí, Idroal, Belleo, Taia and hopefully Helena. Varí is my favourite, I’m a sucker for an adorable sidekick.

With the pacing: I thought in moved slightly too fast. Not necessarily the scenes but the relationship. It felt like things were being skipped over. I still really enjoyed it but (very weirdly for me because I am ridiculously impatient) I wanted more of a slow burn. I know this is the most slow burn-y of Devyn’s books but I think it needed more. Not percentage wise but page count wise, I think the whole book should have been longer. While I don’t know where the series is going, I think maybe this book should have been 1 and a bit of the next instead of 1 book.

ALSO BE AWARE THIS IS NOT A STANDALONE!! IT IS A SERIES SERIES NOT A SERIES OF STANDALONES!

I was not expecting that tbh, and I am so excited for a new series.

If this review reads weirdly, it’s because it’s just after 1 am and I have had a really long day but could not stop reading.

I absolutely loved it. I did not disappoint. I love seeing all the characters from the previous books. Maven and Dallas are fantastic and I love June too. 

But I do have a couple of critiques. Shawn was my favourite book boyfriend of a while in the last book but his character seemed different in this one, and I didn’t really like him. With the big 3rd act part he was very different and it seemed like he was made the bad guy just so Maven could do a speech and Dallas could be the hero. June was also written a bit too young for 4? That might just be me but she seemed more like a toddler than a preschooler. Finally, and this is an entirely my taste thing, the use of Daddy and good boy were a bit too frequent (and by that I mean they were used). Although the Daddy thing didn’t annoy me as much because he actually had a kid, it also felt weird that they were using it sexually while his kid calls him that.

I still want to keep reading but I’m not really enjoying this series as much as I want to be.

Being completely honest, I thought it was too long and the sex scenes were giving me deja vu. I swear I have read the exact same scenes 5 times before with different names. I do like the overall plot through the books with Dean and Kingmakers. But this books primary plot felt both rushed and too long but somehow also underdeveloped.

I did really connect to the characters. I had to check reviews to get a spoiler at one point because I was scared to keep reading.