This was a really fun book to read! I loved the characters in this and the universe/background plot. The spice was amazing but at times I did find it a little lacking, more towards the end once they were all together. Overall, this was a fun read and I’ll definitely finish the series!

Okay, super excited to finally be reading this series! It took me a bit to really get into this book as the beginning starts off fairly slow and is more centered around the politics of the world which is something I’m typically interested in however in this book it feels like we are missing a lot of the pieces to really understand the politics. I definitely felt lost at times trying to keep up with who is the leader of what and would’ve benefited from a guide (probably going to buy a journal for notes like these because of this lol). Now I lovvveeed the world and the characters. Orka? THAT IS MY GIRL!! I adore her so so much and always looked forward to every one of her chapters. Her journey is by far my favorite. I do also love Elvar and enjoyed seeing Varg even though at times I just wanted to tell him to chill out and things take time. I like though that we are following these 3 characters that are on their journey but you can see the set up of how their journeys will intersect later on. Some other good things in this book: if you like a fight scene this book is for you, I’ve literally never read better fight scenes than these! We’ve also got some found family going on here which I love! I can only see this series getting better from here on!

This book was enjoyable but honestly I can’t see these 2 lasting as a long term couple. I love love Elliot as a character but just couldn’t connect with Ama. I also feel like  maybe second chance romances are not for me. Another piece I struggled with was the past and present switches, to me it didn’t really add much to the story besides furthering my point that these two would not last as a couple lol. Ama needs some therapy before she is in a relationship. Listened to this one on audio and will say the narration was really good! 

I lovveeeed this book! I think it’s the perfect age gap, small town romance, cowboy romance book! Now I personally am not super into the tabooish romances like this one where the MMC is her adopted uncle but honestly besides them being like “oh we really shouldn’t be doing this” I don’t feel like it’s a huge theme of the book. Overall I really enjoyed the plot of the book and the spice is 5/5! 

Soft DNF for now. This book is perfect me but something about it is just not grabbing me. It’s almost like it’s just missing something for me to really want to read it. Might pick back up in the future!

I loved the first book when I read it two years ago but now I just think this story isn’t for me.