These novellas are the heart of this series, and I can say with brutal honesty that I would not keep going through the series if the novellas didn't keep pulling me back in. 

This Novella is everything that I was missing from The Witches Blade. My biggest complaint with that book was that I couldn't connect with Rua, and I wanted more from Renwick's pov. Ask and you shall receive. 

I loved this. I loved getting his back story. I loved learning more of where his Witchslayer name came from, I loved learning more about his powers. I wish so much that this could have been implemented more into book 2. 

I had the same issues with this one as I did the first. I absolutely did not connect with Rua at all. I struggled to even like her for most of the story. 

I did, however, connect with Renwick way more than I did with Hale. I really like his history and his story, and to be quite honest, I think if I would have had some chapters from his pov, this book would have worked a lot better for me. 

Rua's character did have a lot of growth and as the book continued she did redeem herself to me quite a bit and I ended the book not hating her nearly as much as I did in the first two thirds. 

I appreciated their romance a lot more than I did Remy and Hale's. I can't pinpoint why exactly. Maybe it's purely because I liked Renwick more, but it didn't feel quite as forced or fake.

The returning characters also made me happy. I struggle with book series that tend to move on from book to book, so it is nice to have some familiar faces in with all the new. 

Overall, I enjoyed this one more than the first, but really, I just liked Renwick’s story, and I kinda wish there was more of him. 

I loved Heather's story. In my opinion, this is the best thing to come out of this series. While  I'm struggling with all of the novels, these little novellas keep drawing me right back in. 

This was such a sweet story, and I got through it so quickly and instantly wished there was more. 

I really enjoyed this prequel and the history of Remy. I really didn't connect with her in The High Mountain Court. But I really did in this one. I adored her relationship with Fenrin, and I wish I felt more of their bond in the novel as I did with this Novella. 

I really didn't connect with Hale in the first book, so this was kind of nice insight to his upbringing and his life outside of his relationship with Remy. 

I really enjoyed him going back to his roots and seeing his mom again and meeting his family. It was such a sweet little novella.

I truly believe that this book started off so strong. I was all the way there and invested, and I loved Remy. But then I got bored. So bored that I actually blanked out full sections of this book and had to go back and reread them. 

I had zero connection with Remy. Or with Hale, so I don't know if it's entirely because of this that I didn't love this book or what. Again, I found them to be pretty hollow characters, and I was bored. Their relationship. Or what have you, was so bland. I didn't feel the chemistry or the sparks. It just wasn't. And then it was. And then it was fated mates. 

So much of this book was spent traveling, and was just dialogue on top of dialogue with some sword and dagger training scenes thrown in for good measure. 

Honestly, I had close to no interest in this book until the last quarter. Things really picked up. There was some plot introduced and some action. But it was all so, bing bang boom, over, that I felt a little let down by it all. 

This was one of my biggest anticipated books on my TBR, so I'm pretty sad right now, I won't lie.

This was entirely predictable, and I'm disappointed. 

AR Torre is an auto read for me. I don't even look at the descriptions, but this one really kind of let me down. 

I saw the twist coming a mile away, and there really wasn't enough otherwise to keep me interested. 

There were so many povs, which I both loved and hated. There wasn't enough personality to any of the characters, so it was nice because it kept the story moving along without it getting stale. But it was also not great because so much of it felt like unnecessary filler. 

Overall, I did enjoy it. It was pretty good, if not entirely predictable, from the first few chapters. 

This was a sweet, short little tale. It was missing a lot, and I definitely didn't fall in love. But I did like it. 

I picked this book up to read to my 9 year old daughter because I remember loving it as a girl, but it really wasn't what my memory led me to believe. 

It's a very short story, super quick but lacking in any real plot. It's very much about a girl breaking out of her childhood years and into her preteen years, looking for more out of life. I like the Tucks well enough, but I truly hope that with forever ahead of them, they were able to do more than hide in the woods. Miles was really the only Tuck with any kind of ambition. 

My daughter says that this one was okay, but she was bored for a lot of it and didn't really like Winnie or the Tucks, so it was just okay. 

This freaking book was SO. SLOW. 

I struggled, I won't lie. About 30% through, I lost interest. It took me 2 full weeks to push through or to find a reason to pick up the book. 

It's so much longer than it needs to be, considering so little happens in this book. Over 400 pages to sail to a place and go up against the sirens. That's literally it! Considering it was like, maybe 30 pages of them actually being with the sirens, that was just way too much.

SOMEHOW, even with the length of this book, each person's chapters were too short. It bounces around so much that we really don't delve into any independent part of the story. Five pages here, then boom, five pages over there. It was impossible to create a connection with anyone.

I like the underlying plot. I liked the story itself. But there was just so much filler that the plot got lost for me.

This duology just wasn't it for me. I hate saying that because The Folk Of The Air is an amazing trilogy that I absolutely adore, but these two books just did not measure up. 

I found this installment to be quite boring. While, at first, I enjoyed Oaks' pov and having a bunch of old faces make reappearance, his personality is just so bland. There really wasn't enough there to make me love him.

I missed Soren's pov to be completely honest. While I found her book to also be quite tedious and a little boring, I appreciated the fresh story and new characters that came out of it. 

The romance between our two mcs can't even be called a romance. There's no spark. No chemistry, whatsoever, and no development between the two of them (other than constantly backstabbing each other). The only almost cute moments between them were all flashbacks of when they were kids. 

The only redemption that I found was that once the story started going, it kinda kept going. I liked seeing Soren stand up for herself, and Oak grow into his true self.