I’m very hard to scare and this book had me legit creeped out!

The cover makes so much sense now!

This is really cute and the author note is really sweet.

Sadly I enjoyed this one the least!

It’s truly a crime that we can’t all marry Gavin Pope.

If you were curious about Poe's spice running days, this is the book for you. Segura did an amazing job giving us a backstory that aligned with Poe's personality and history while undoing some of the wtf you may have experienced learning that fact on Kijimi.

I could read little novellas in this universe forever.

I loved everything about this book!

The time flashes made this story hard to follow, though it did have a compelling under story. Sadly, the outdated art alongside the jarring storytelling made it less than stellar.

Yikes, I did NOT know how badly this book was going to break me all the way through the end. I mean, they DID warn us and pretty much every early reviewer was just screaming but I was not prepared for how bad Aurora Burning was going to wreck me.

Somewhere along the line, Fin became my favorite character and this book gave us all the goods. The range of emotions the characters go through kept me fully enraptured in the story.

When I say I love middle books, this is the exact example of why. We have a base knowledge of the characters and get to see them being their best (and sometimes worse) selves. We know the world and get to see different parts of it, socially, culturally, and physically. We know the stakes and then Jay and Amie mess us up worse. Oh, yeah, that’s just how second Jay and Amie books work. Everything about this book is bigger, brighter, and hurtier. Ouch.

I need book 3 right now.