Overall: 4.00⭐️
Romance: 4.00🩷
Characters: 4.00👥
Plot: 4.25💥
World: 3.75🌎
Spice: 3.25🌶️

Overall: 4.00⭐️
Romance: 4.00🩷
Characters: 3.75👥
Plot: 4.25💥
World: 3.75 🌎
Spice: 3.25🌶️

Overall: 3.75⭐️
Romance: 4.00🩷
Characters: 3.75👥
Plot: 3.75💥
Spice: 3.25🌶️

It was a sweet and emotional small town childhood friends to lovers, second chance military romance but I never really fell in love with any of the characters. The premise was good just not written in a way I would have preferred. It was a very entertaining read though and I very much enjoyed it as a whole. I stayed up so late trying to finish this in one sitting before passing out with like 30 min to go lol.  

I think my only real qualm with this book is the writing. By halfway through the book, it felt like ALL the MMC could ever think about was being “buried inside” the FMC despite actively rejecting a relationship with her because he doesn’t deserve her. If I have to read those words one more time I’m going to bang my head into a wall. 

Overall: 4.25⭐️
Romance: 4.50🩷
Characters: 4.25👥
Plot: 4.00💥
Spice: 3.50🌶️

This was a sweet yet dark and sexy mafia romance and I ate. it. up. I wasn’t sure what kind of mood I was in before choosing this, I just knew I wanted a simpler contemporary romance after reading a lot of fantasy recently. This book did not disappoint. 

Nothing revolutionary happens but I still loved Elena and Nico. The way they’re undeniably pulled towards the other despite knowing they’ll break each other’s hearts. Yes please! This was a great hate to love, forbidden attraction, enemy families, arranged marriage, mafia princess x mafia boss story. A morally gray and domineering MMC who ends up WHIPPED for the sweet yet bratty FMC was exactly what I needed. Loved it! Def recommend this one if you’re in the mood for a mafia romance. 

Overall: 4.00⭐️
Romance: 4.00🩷
Characters: 4.25👥
Plot: 4.00💥
World: 4.25🌎
Spice: 1.00🌶️

Overall: 4.50⭐️
Romance: 4.50🩷
Characters: 4.50👤
Plot: 4.00💥
Spice: 3.00🌶️

This was so SWEET. I think I forgot just how much I love grumpy X sunshine. I loved their relationship so much. They were just too cute. 

The side plots weren’t fully fleshed out or resolved but personally didn’t mind too much because the main focus was on the characters and their relationships. I actually really liked the hidden identity and amnesia tropes in this one because we got both friends to lovers AND forced proximity. Overall such a cozy quick read. A great palate cleanser!

I listened to the audiobook which was a great dual narration although the MMC narrator’s girl voice during one of the spicy scenes did make me laugh at least once 🤭 

Overall: 5.00 ⭐️
Romance: 4.75 🩷
Spice: 5.00 🌶️
Characters: 4.50 👤
Plot: 3.50 💥
World: 4.00 🌎

Now this is what I call real cliterature. I don’t know what mood I was in when I started it but BOY was I in the MOOD for this one. I was non-stop screaming, giggling, kicking my feet the entire first 100 pages. It was super hot ofc but also like so sweet?? Idk man I couldn’t get enough of all 4 of them. It was almost like cuteness aggression with how much I was clawing at my screen and screeching bc I just loved it so much. I ended up with 105 annotations. What can I say, it was quite the memorable read. A masterpiece in my eyes. 

Pretty sure like 80% of this book is pure vampire smut and I did in fact live for it. I love any why choose but polyam is always my fave kind and a rare treat for me. There was still a plot though if you squint really hard, tilt your head a bit, and hold it up to the light you can see the shadow of it. This book was originally 3 so it’s split into parts and honestly all the plot is in the last 150 pages at which point I was kinda like, is all this even necessary? Can we get back to the fun lol. It was still very enjoyable though and with a pretty cool world, but nothing too complex or dragged out and with a HEA. 

The characters were all great.  You get introduced to them one at a time and the relationships between each of them gets their own time to develop individually which I really liked. 

Despite minimal character development everyone has a backstory that adds to the emotions and builds up the romance enough to where you’re actually rooting for them to be together not just to boink each other’s brains out, though that happens a lot too. Definitely all still insta-attraction with some good old forced proximity and magical bonds. Basically, “I don’t want to want you but I need you to need me too and I hate that I don’t hate it because I actually love how you love me.” Perfection. 👌🏼 

I originally saw the collectors edition at the bookstore and had been eyeing it for months knowing absolutely nothing about it. Eventually I was like ok let me try reading it on KU and can  buy it if I like it. Well I finished it within 48 hrs. Not only did I read the kindle version all day, that night, I bought it on audible too so I could keep reading while my eyes were closed 💀

So now I essentially have 3 copies in all formats and I have zero regrets. Honestly one of my favorite reads. I could not stop thinking about it since starting and I see myself continuing to think about it for days to come.

Overall: 5.0⭐️
Characters: 4.75👤
Plot: 5.00💥
World: 4.75🌎

Overall : 4.50⭐️
Romance: 4.25🩷
Characters: 4.50👤
Plot: 4.50💥
World: 4.25🌎
Spice: 2.00🌶️

Overall: 5.00⭐️
Characters: 4.50👤
Plot: 4.75💥
World: 5.00🌎

This was a childhood classic I picked for a friend book club. I just love this book so much. Pure adventure and amazing world building, I get immersed in the story every time no matter how old I get. It was so fun to revisit this book yet again after a few years.