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challenging
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
i thought this would be less angsty than hazard and somers since north and shaw are jokester but why did i think that?? this is gregory ashe after all.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this was... wild. at times, painful to read and, in others. disturbing; with multiple details i kept wondering if the author genuinely thought them through. this was,,, such a weird book. likely the weirdest thing i have ever read, which is saying something.
to be fair, the random beastility was what truly disturbed me, and there were some rough sex scenes that felt non-consensual but weren't written as such, which distubed me further.
there were no female werewolves. they had to reproduce with... wolves. female wolves. the animal wolves. that they called bitches. i have no words.
like, if you want to read some weird-ahh shi, you should give this book a go.
far from me to ever criticise someone for their tastes, but i likely went to far with this one. it was just painful to read to the point i stopped at 80% for weeks, then it turned that the last 20% had one of the best steamy scenes and then things were resolved extremely fast, with no explanation, like magic. which... yeah. whatever.
one star and i didn't drop it because i just needed to know how the hell the mess was going to be resolved... turns out it was completely off-page, with no explanation, lmao.
to be fair, the random beastility was what truly disturbed me, and there were some rough sex scenes that felt non-consensual but weren't written as such, which distubed me further.
like, if you want to read some weird-ahh shi, you should give this book a go.
far from me to ever criticise someone for their tastes, but i likely went to far with this one. it was just painful to read to the point i stopped at 80% for weeks, then it turned that the last 20% had one of the best steamy scenes and then things were resolved extremely fast, with no explanation, like magic. which... yeah. whatever.
one star and i didn't drop it because i just needed to know how the hell the mess was going to be resolved... turns out it was completely off-page, with no explanation, lmao.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hazard leveled a death stare at him.
“Oh my God,” Nico said, and it sounded like he was close to crying. “I’ve never seen you this happy.”
although this made me squeal and made me soso happy at certain points, it does get old how some aspects of hazard's personality haven't changed, and by the teaser for the next book (which raised my blood pressure exponentaly as they tend to do), it is going to be about all the ways somers hasn't changed.
THAT being said, i love colt and he's the best thing that ever happened in this series, even if ashe is going to absolutely bullshit us into a lot of emotional pain that i have NO idea why we choose to subjugate us to. i think i genuinely need to start north and shaw or something, because i so not down for emotional pain right now.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“I love you,” Somers said. “What we have, I’ve never had before in my whole life. I get to be me, the real me. I get to be with you. That’s worth any price.”
Hazard whispered, “I love you too.”
hazard, meu amor, i wanted to whack you over the head so many times in this book. as per usual, gregory ashe DID NOT take it easy on us on this one. i understand why these events were so hurtful to him, but i still wanted ashe to make clearer what the heck was going on, i didn't even remember what promise hazard had made to somers dad and it felt flimsy that glenn was chasing this hard on the borrowed money somers took. regardless, it's still amazing to see our leads professing their love for each other and i just about lose my marbles every single time somers calls hazard sweetheart, it just about ruins me, i swear.
but it still hurt like all hell read somers saying those things about how much he gave up for hazard and stuff, i don't think he could ever go to the end of the line of that reasoning, but it still hurt to see him even mention it.
i still loved this book, it's solid 4 stars for me, and it didn't drag on like a few others did, but i didn't make many highlights for this book, so that shows that it didn't hit as many emotional marks with me as other installments.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“I think people who read novels are fantasists in desperate need of emotional dope to anesthetize them against the reality of their meaningless existence.” “I read novels.” “I know, but we’re working on that.” “No, we’re not. I like novels. I will always read novels. You cannot make me stop reading novels.” “That’s very cute.”
✨ SOUND THE WEDDING BELLS ✨
i had a looot of feelings reading this one. the mystery was pretty good and i LOVED the
anyway, regardless, this was a fun one. i think i might take a hazard and somers break to find my way around the hazardverse so i can follow it linearly, but let's see if i'll really read all of the FIFTY books of the hazardvese (fuck).
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was one thing to know he was smart and handsome and charming, a good cop, important in his own way. It was another to swallow the bullshit whole and believe every bit of it. He wondered why he hadn’t seen that before, why it had seemed so easy to believe all the good things people said about him and ignore what really mattered, and he wondered why it was different now.
the absolute best thing about a series this long, about being with these characters through all the batshit crazy stuff they go through, is how much room they have to grow and change and, yeah, make the same mistakes, but also learn, and fall even more in love and learn to be together and damn, bro. idek if you can love so much as much as hazard and somers do, supposedly yes, but i can't imagine loving that insanely, like this other gem somers whips out at some point:
“Ree, sweetheart, I love you. Kind of . . . obsessively, maybe. And I know I’m a catch. I know I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to you. Ever happened to anyone, as far as that goes.”
“Turn it down a notch,” Hazard growled.
this book also had north and shaw showing up and they're both... a lot. i know i'm going to read their series eventually, but i still don't know if i'll like them, like the way shaw was carrying on was annoying, but then the hug he gave somers... bro is just starved for attention, all the damn time, and this book in particular helped me see more of him, instead of just being annoyed by his stuff, lol.
we're all a little fckd up in our own way and i think that's beautiful.
oh, and on my past review i said i was trying to stop rushing through books, but guess who is still steady on their bullshit??? read until late and finished yes another book in less than 24h. i am not as well adjusted as i lead people to believe, lol.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“At first, it had been annoying: he’d look up and see Somers grinning at him, practically a puppy dog, like all he wanted was to be best friends. Then, later, as their relationship had shifted, it had been one of the few pleasures in Hazard’s life. To look up, to see Somers’s forehead furrowed as he read a file, to see the little crook to his head when he was focusing extra hard, to see him bend all his resources toward whatever obstacle he was facing.”
what can i even possibly SAY about this book??? the way everything is so much more intense, but also lovelier and, gdi, sexier now. like, ashe doesn't even properly writes out sex scenes, but the steam, damn bro, sizzling hot. and the angst, oh my god, always epic proportions, but damn, damn it all to hell, the romance!!!!! i'm trying not to read compulsively because heavens know i tend to go into hyperfocus and its detrimental to my responsabilities and to my sleep, but this book!!!!!
i think this is officialy my favorite hazard and somerset book. it's like, probably amongst my favorite books ever, it's officialy on my favorites shelf now.
what the hell. what the hell, the ending of this book?? it had me in TEARS!! i am telling you, actual water in my eyes!!!!!
i love hazard, he's so awful. i love somers, he's the worst. they're both so sweet it makes me want to commit acts of violence!! the way the talk so sweetly to each other sometimes?? the pet names????
i want to climb on top of a table and rip off my shirt and scream! i tried to get a coworker to read this series and she was digging the plot but when i said it's a series with arcs and like probably 20+ she wouldn't commit, but oh my god.
oh my god.
i feel so strongly about this series, and this book i particular, that i am rambling and not saying a single objective thing.
i am so sorry about my complains gregory ashe, i am so sorry.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“Hazard heard plastic crack; he was holding the DVD case too tightly, but he didn’t care. Somers was transformed in front of him. The blond man looked lit up from the inside, his perfect features radiant, a huge, dumbass smile on his face. A thousand years ago, Hazard thought in a distant corner of his mind, men had seen angels like this.”
a thing that i think happened was that maybe i read too many gregory ashe books in a row, waay too fast, and so they started to taste stale. they got denser the further along we went and it's difficult to handle people committing the same mistakes almost over and over.
i didn't wany hazard to leave the force. i didn't want hazard to butt his head into the investigation and get both of them into trouble. i didn't want him jealous and depressed. and, most of all, i didn't want somers to suck at handling things all over again.
but i can say whatever i want about how dense and tiring ashe's writing can be, it doesn't matter, because he whips out stuff life this:
“That’s what it feels like, I guess. Like I’m not just me anymore. Like I’m all tied up with him, and sometimes, being tied up with him is the only thing holding me together, holding me in place.”
man, what could about possibly complain about him???
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Murder
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“Score one for wearing you down. And people say persistence is annoying.”
this was SO CUTE??? the third act breakup was annoying and i slightly wished the vers scene was less angsty but this was still such a cute and lighthearted read, just what the doctor ordered.
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"And I realize I'll do it. Even if it means just another moment with him, I'll do it. He's putting me on a leash. But I'll be his pet dog. I will bite only on his command."
this was SUCH a fun read!!!! it wasn't... that well written, but i had so much fun, the dialogue was intentionally funny in multiple parts and i was genuinely engaged on the plot development and the chase! it was truly a delightful read.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder