I've never seen the film, but I couldn't help but pick this book up from the display at the library.

Everything about this book is beautiful. From the cover to the illustrations to the storytelling. I had to force myself, more than once, to just take a second to really just adore the book I was reading. 

This was dark and eerie in all of the right ways and had me so immersed from start to finish. Somehow, both heart-wrenching and hopeful at the same time, I found myself completely and totally emotionally invested in Ofelia and her story.

I am struggling with all of the back and forth here. The romance is so immature that I can't stop rolling my eyes at them. This dude is well over a hundred years old, so I'm really struggling with this whole “I have a crush on you” crap. It feels so unrealistic, and I'm struggling to immerse myself into the plot because things like that keep popping up. 

I'm struggling with the plot because things are not really happening. We're learning more about the Fae and the hunters, absolutely. But, I'm looking for more action. I feel like we’re given a couple of big bangs, and then we're led back down a boring ordinary path again where I'm waiting for something more to happen. 

I still find Cat to be clueless, and flighty and a little self-absorbed. She really doesn't realize what's going on with anyone around here, she's just so caught up in herself all the time. 

All the negative stuff (mostly) out of the way, I will say this. I really still like the idea of the Hunters vs. the Fae. I love the mixed bloodline, and I'm super interested in seeing where things go. But things have to start going somewhere soon because I'm getting bored of all the will she/won't she, will they/won't they. Also, give me more magic! Jeez.

There are so many things I liked about this book, but also quite a few things that I found I had to force myself to look past. And then, quite frankly, things I just flat out didn't like. 

Right off the bat, I don't love Cat. She's very immature, kind of flighty, and probably one of the most unrealistic characters I've read in a while. I really don't like an ow/om trope, so I wasn't super excited to see that pop up here… and it took me most of the book to get all of the characters completely straightened out in my head and a family tree completed in a way that I could completely grasp everything that was going down without having to take a second to sory out who was what and where. 

I also have to say that one of my biggest pet peeves is when you give me a character that's over a hundred freaking years old, and they act like they're 16. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't work. I don't take the characters seriously, and therefore, any part of the plot there in, I also dont take seriously. And Cat's Dad. Like, dude, how out of touch are you with your kid right now that you can't even see that something is going on. You freaking live with her. 

All the somewhat negative parts out of the way, I love the idea of the Hunters and the Fae. It is so much fun. I love the idea of the Hunters waking up from history and joining the modern day. And I love the animosity that's between them all at this point. 

While I haven't fallen in love, I am quite interested to see where this series goes.

I had fun with this one. Some of it was so relatable, and I would burst out laughing and think “yup”. It was really cute. Sometimes, you just need a quick, mindless read that will make you smile. This? This is that.

Hey! I'm so glad to be here, and to say this: This was by far the best book of this series! I loved all the connections that were made from Alice's story and brought over into Oz, and I love who all of the characters ended up being.

There was so much plot here compared to all the other books in this series (that I've read so far) and I was over the moon to be able to skip the smut and actually still enjoy myself. 

I love Dotorhy. She is such a dark character, and her sneering at all the softness and kindness of the other characters throughout the book make me happier than it should have. And I loved her back and forth with West. I'm a sucker for a “I hate you, but I love you” trope.

More than anything, I'm so happy that Alice finally got her story. I was so let down when her story ended up being so focused on Clara and Fin, and so I'm over the moon that she got her finale. I was also really happy to see that her story didn't overwhelm Dorothy’s. They meshed really well, and the story just worked. 

If you don't take this story too seriously, it's a lot of fun. In my opinion, it is significantly better than the rest in the series. 

This was the same as the previous two in this series. Such high expectations and such a large letdown. No one's fault but my own here. I'm just a huge sucker for reimaginings, especially the ones that are being redone in this series. I just keep hoping I'm going to enjoy them more, but (kudos to the author) this series is very consistent.

I wish that this book had actual trials to prove the mate bond. I really liked the plot here. The prison where everyone loses their memories, paired with the evil woman who makes a deal. The trials! Oh, am I ever a sucker for a book with trials! But… These trials seemed to be all sex and orgies. Those are not the kind of trials I am into.  We did eventually move past that and into more life-threatening trials, which I enjoyed thoroughly. 

This series is very, very smut heavy, and this novella stayed true to the series. Considering Lir couldn't even remember Louisa, the author did a good job at finding a way to make it smut heavy without Lir straying outside the marriage. 

I'll say this, I don't go for smut. So, I do tend to skip those parts, and there was enough plot to this one that I was interested enough to keep going, and there was actually still a story for me to read. (In comparison to book one, where if you skipped the smut, there was basically no story at all).

Well. This was hands down the best of the series. 

I didn't love the first two, and I didn't love the first half of this one. It started off so slowly, and I was really, quite bored. I didn't care for the huge build-up of Katrina's mom coming along and the several, seeeveral conversations everyone needed to have over and over again to talk about it. Then, just to knock her out, send her beneath deck or whatever, and have the same conversations over again. I think a lot of the first half of this book I could have done without. 

Except for Milo's parts. Maybe because I just want a pirate story, and he was actually a Pirate in this one, I was more interested in his parts. 

Once we met with Bastian and started to go after the Kraken, the story really picked up, and, for the first time in this series, I really started to enjoy myself. I really just wanted more of that half in the rest of the series. The characters are all so immature (considering half of them are over 300 years old, c'mon), and I found a lot of the dialogue to be very unrealistic and cringey.

There are a lot of loose ends and plot points that really didn't make much sense and seemed to appear out of nowhere. But really, if you don't focus too hard on those things, it's a pretty okay read. The second half, at least.

I really wanted to love this series, I've been really looking forward to it coming up on my spinning wheel, but it just didn't work for me. 

I'm going to preface this: Alessa Thorn has done such an amazing job at sprinkling Dante and Leo's story in between the pages of everyone else's story that I was absolutely dying for this book. I couldn't wait to get an entire story dedicated to their banter and learn more about Leo and just seeing more of Dante because let's face it, the dude is adorable. Their romance was so sweet, and having the two of them work through all of their insecurities together was just the most heart-wrenching part of this entire series.

This one has a heavy mafia feel to it, and less of a mercenary, treasure hunter, assassin feel to it. So right off the bat, I was kind of Hmm-ing to myself. But, there was enough connection to the main plot points of the last three books that I  found myself entirely invested and devoted to our characters and the story.

There is so much emphasis on the found family trope in this one, and I honestly kept going “aweeee” every time Leo stood up to his Mom and called Edgeworths his family. And every time Silas was all “he's my son now” I cried happy tears on the inside. 

This book, out of the four, had the most to it outside of the romance, in my opinion. It really brought a lot to the table, and it was so well done. Especially as a finale to the series, I really didn't feel let down at all, if anything, I loved seeing each of the characters end up the way that they did.

I can not get enough of this series. 

I love that we get to see a new couple in each installment, but we’[re following the same overarching plot with Aurora. I find typically when a series does this, we kind of lose track of our previous couples and they really fade into the background, but Alessa Thorn did such a good job and keeping everyone so front and center that you never really lose sight of your favorite characters. 

I have loved Julian since he appeared, and I was so happy that this book was about him. I was also pleasantly surprised at how much I loved Altun. They fit together so perfectly and seamlessly; their banter was bang on, and I can't tell you how many times they made me smile.

I'm so looking forward to Dante and Leo's story. 

Silas and Izabella are adorable. It was a huge shift from reading about Kon and Athena (and their murderous, bloody ways) to reading about these two. They are so calm and chill compared to Kon and Athena, and they just seem to have their shit together in a whole way we didn't see in book one. I will say that while I enjoyed them as our love interests, I did find them rather boring after the big bang of the couple in book one. It was a lot of pining and secretly longing for each other but not telling each other, and it got old pretty quick.

That being said, the continuation of the plot surrounding Izabella and Kon is amazing. I am such a sucker for a fast-paced, high stakes heist type story, so I was all the way here for this. I AM all the way here for this series. I just wish there was a little more depth to it all.