11/13/2021 ☆☆☆☆
05/14/2024 ★★

Ooooh Man. Three years ago, Brii was wrong. So wrong. I did not enjoy this book at all this go around. 

I can't stand Persephone. She is the actual freaking worst. She's an overgrown child; whiny and obnoxious. She ignores all the people around her and does whatever the eff she wants, always thinking she's doing it for other people when in reality she is just THE most selfish person in the world. 

Her relationship with Hades is a dumpster fire. Neither of them trust each other. Neither of them talk to each other. Neither of them are actually nice to each other. They just come together once in a while, claim they're in love, fight, bone, and then don't talk for another dozen chapters. 

I spent this book in a perpetual eye roll, frustrated and annoyed. This series really reads like YA with sex. Honestly, two pouting teenagers who can't stop bickering. That's Hades and Persephone. “You apologize, no YOU apologize”, on and on for an entire book. 

Shout out to Hermes, as always

While this book follows the same story as A Touch of Darkness, I think there were enough differences throughout and enough solo time with Hades that it felt almost like an entirely different story.

I usually dread a series with an entire book dedicated to a second pov, but I do have to say that this one was very well done. 

One of my biggest complaints in A Touch Of Darkness is that I felt like we really never got to know Hades outside from what random information was scattered throughout the book, so this was really great for insight into him that I felt was lacking. 

I still found Persephone to me immature and whiny. I still felt that she came off as a teenage girl throwing a tantrum, so obviously, I had very little connection to her. I like Hades a bit more now than I did previously, but I still found his character to be bland and “boorish”. 

Hermes is, and always will be, my shining star. I'm so glad for his character and the comedic relief he brings to these books. Between constant complaining from Persephone and bickering with Hades to (in the second half 9f the book) the literal chapter after chapter of sex, I found there to be very little plot to these books, and very little to hold my attention

11/ 13/ 2021 ★★★
05/11/2024 ☆☆☆

I stand by my original rating of this book. It's absolutely a 3 star book, and honestly, that might even be pushing it. 

I'm rereading because I wanted to finish the last few books of the series that I never go around to, but I'm second-guessing my decision.

Persephone comes off as extremely immature and childish. She's bordering on irredeemably annoying; just a typical rebelling teenager (except she's not a teenager). She also feels like an airhead to me, like she's walking around, confused all the time. Honestly, she's a pretty boring character. 

I want to say that I liked Hades, but I can't. We didn't really get to know him other than in little snippets. Everything we do learn about him comes from random other characters. I know he's rich. I know he owns clubs? And restaurants? But.. also makes deals with people. And runs the underworld. (Where does this dude get all his time?). I felt that he had very little personality other than “listened
to Persephone and started a charity so obviously he's a decent man/god/whatever). He also has very little character. 

I just wasn't invested in anyone. Except Hermes. Here's my little shout out to Hermes ♥︎ in these books of Gods my heart always finds itself to Hermes. 

Continuing, I found the pair had very little chemistry, and their relationship was pretty typical insta-love. Zero romance. Zero swoon. Just, boom. In love. Let's bake cookies. 

I will say this book was a quick, easy read. There was enough going on in the story that although I didn't love it, I kept turning pages.  You knew the ball had to drop at some point because let's face it, there are a ton of books in this series, and this book had very little plot. 

The ending eventually did bring a little more something, something to the table. I just wish I didn't have to wait a whole book for it to happen. 

Not much happens in this book. Gunna throw that out there first and foremost. 

This is basically a romance book set in the world of the fae. We kinds just watch Lark and Cerulean fall in love and sprinkle in conquering the mountain labyrinth while we're at it. Don't get me wrong, it's not a totally bad thing, it just wasn't for me.

I was bored for big chunks of this one. Waiting for Cerulean and Lark to stop being dumb and click all the pieces together about each other. Waiting for Lark to actually try and climb the mountain. Waiting for my brain to actually understand all of the ridiculous cryptic riddles that filled this book (spoiler alert, it never did. This book is pretty forking confusing). 

I needed more. A lot more. More information about the world, the world building in this one fell really flat. More action in the book rather than short snippets here and there. More of an actual storyline. You trespassed, therefore, must climb this mountain isn't enough to fill a novel. Their history didn't cut it, even just for basic filler.

I also found the author's writing to be a bit much. It was excessive. Purposefully excessive, which made it worse. I found it to be convoluted, confusing, and frustrating at times. I had to reread certain passages more than once just to try to understand what the author was saying. The book didn't flow. 

As characters, I enjoyed Lark and Cerulean. Their story was wonderful, and their banter adorable. But as a book? This story really let me down. 

I'm going on to book 2, but only because I'm curious about Puck and Juniper. We'll see how far I make it. 

I won't lie. I think I was pretty bored by the end here. 

This series as a whole was very mediocre. It had enough going on that I found myself still interested in seeing where it was going, but at no point was I invested in the story or the characters. Not saying that anyone was inherently bad, I just didn't form a connection with anyone. 

Fury's character went from being cute and quirky to a little annoying and eye roll inducing. I generally didn't like nor dislike any of her mates. They were all pretty bland cookie cutter mates that pop up in these types of books. 

I liked the storyline more than the characters, so I'm sad that they didn't do more for me. The whole Jake twist was fun, and I enjoyed the addition of the four horsemen. I think that's where the stars I actually gave this book stem from, I do, however, wish there was more to it. I kind of hit the back burner and fizzled out, which was really disappointing to me. 

Overall. This was okay. The books kind of sat in the same “meh” corner for me all the way through, so I did drop the rating on this one. 

Book 2 of this series followed pretty closely with my review of Book 1, Dark Horse. 

I neither fell in love with or disliked anything about this book. It was a decent read. Quick, easy, and, for the most part, fun. 

I like the dynamic of all of our characters. They all fit together really well, and no one really annoys me or frustrates me too badly. It might be the sheer number of characters that surround the Fury, our fmc, and no one gets enough page time for it to be possible to be annoyed. That being said, it's also been pretty difficult for me to form an attachment to anyone because of this. 

I will say, I love Hades. And I love the addition of Bloody Mary. She's so fun. 

I'm not thoroughly invested in the story. I like it well enough, but that's as far as that goes. 

I neither fell in love with this book nor disliked anything about it. I enjoyed reading it, but I definitely didn't look forward to it. I'm straight down the middle with this one. 

I like the idea behind it. A demon sent to earth to rehabilitate 3 supernaturals. But the characters all feel like cookie-cutter characters from a handful of books I've read before. I don't love any of them, but I also don't hate any of them. 

I like Hades. His character is fun. I also like Fury for the most part. She's cute and bubbly but not in (too much) of an annoying way, and I enjoy her sense of humor.  

There's no real urgency to this book, so I'm not really all that invested. It felt like a super simple casual read. A super simple casual read that hit right down the middle of hate and love.

This book was a freaking chore. Holy man, did I ever struggle. 

Boring beyond boring. The four main characters spend almost this entire book wandering around the ship whining. Every once in a while, a “challenge” would pop up, but the literal rest of the book was just them complaining about their circumstances.  

The actual explanation of why they were alone on the ship was half assed, dumb and extremely poorly executed. The ending was the worst typical cliche ending that I've ever read. 

I try not to be this hard on books, but I've read a lot of bad books, and this one had zero redeeming qualities. Zero good things to say about it. Boring from beginning to ridiculous end. 

This book was good… That's the best I can do, though. While I liked the story, I didn't love the characters. Wolf and Tana's Dad were the only two people I looked forward to hearing more from. 

Tana was boring. Even when she was trying to stand up for what she believed in, she was still entirely brainwashed and felt very robotic. I found her very whiny. She complained constantly but also did very little to change her circumstances or to help the island. 

Her mom? Trash. Her best friend? Trash. Wolf? Okay. He wasn't quite enough. His character had more personality than the rest of the town put together, but he still just wasn't quite “it” for me.I needed more sparks in their relationship. While there were a few cute moments, cute moments don't cut it in a book that revolves around love. 

This story also went in circles. We never accomplished anything or moved on from anything. There was the first two-thirds of the book, and then the last third was just a repeat of the beginning. 


I found it hard to connect with the story and with the characters, but overall, it was a pretty okay read. 

The first third of this book had me worried for what was to come. We spent all of it locked in a cell, going through torture after torture. Not only was it repetitive, but it was excessive. I don't think I needed quite so much on page torture. 

But! As soon as our heroes escaped captivity, this story took off in a great direction. I love the way Davies writes the battles in this series, and I'm always so entirely invested. 

I also loved the spin regarding Fabian. I was getting really tired of it in the last books, and I didn't want to hear about it anymore, so I was really excited to see a plot twist regarding him and Kaylia. 

I don't get sparks from Brokk and Kaylia. I'm disappointed that Brokks' character didn't feel the same in these two books as he did in the first 6. Maybe it's because they spent so much time in shitty situations, but he felt like an entirely different character. 

While these two books didn't quite hit the spot, the rest of the series did. I'm so excited to see what the spin-off series brings to the table.