This almost dethroned Hook, Line, and Sinker as my favorite Tessa Bailey book, but it’s a solid close second favorite!! I LOVED the characters. I like Tessa’s books, she’s an auto-buy author for me, but my favorite’s are the ones rooted further into reality? Both Beat and Melody had realistic jobs. Book restorer and running a charity. Their characters felt real. You could feel Melody’s body relaxing into Beat’s with that first hug. Because it was all so real, I felt so much more immersed into the book. Was it far fetched? Yah, absolutely, it wouldn’t be a TB book otherwise. So many sweet scenes between them. I’m usually irritated with third act break ups and dread the moment we hit the 65% mark because you know it’s coming. But not with Wreck the Halls.

I felt like the “Space” Melody requested was healthy, not at all a third act break up pining trope. Figuring things out.

 
The Banter. Oh my. I could read an entire book of Melody one liners but her and Beat’s banter was epic. Dare I say, better than Fox and Hannah. So, so good. I laughed so much I woke my husband up. 
My only drawback was the lack of epilogue. Tessa wrapped Beat and Melody up nicely, but I was hoping for something more. She does Epilogues so well that I was surprised there was none. It was a jarring end. I kept clicking next page and nothing was happening. So that was a bummer, but barely takes anything away from just how good this book was. 

Solid 4.5 🌟🌟🌟🌟💫

I wanted to love this based off of who the authors are and their social media presence. I won’t lie, I went into this a little biased because I had HIGH expectations. Some indie authors aren’t always the best writers (I’m not either, no judgement) but their ideas are on point so I suffer through awful writing to experience new worlds. The first few pages of Fated Enemies I was like “ehhhh” but I think they were finding their co-authoring groove? Because soon I was immersed and the writing was flowing.

I usually HATE miscommunication tropes, not nearly as much as I can’t stand pregnancy, but it’s high up there. I think for this book it was well done. We didn’t spend 400 pages dealing with non-stop miscommunication. Standard was set for miscommunication trope.

I didn’t feel the complete enemies to lovers bit. I guess it was more “I’m not supposed to like you” to “Oh my gosh puppy fever” to “I hate him” to “Why do I still feel turned on by you?” Not that, “This asshole is slowly growing on me much to my annoyance” But it’s ok by me, because again, all really well done.

I loved the witches. The first few pages of the witch introduction I was already hoping for a witchy spinoff. Then as it progressed with the brother I’m like ok maybe?

Overall, loved the book. The authors blew my expectations out of the water! I unfairly set their bar higher and they jumped over it without breaking a sweat! (less)

I loved the originality of this book. Initially I struggled to be sucked in but I simply think that was the initial world building. Once I was in it i I couldn’t put it down. Stacey did an incredible job describing the cold, I don’t think I was warm the entire time I was reading about the Ledge. My toes were cold in solidarity. There was beautiful LGBTQ+ representation in the book and it was a breath of fresh air. Gay Queens, gender fluid friends, etc. nothing felt forced, it was all natural and no questions. The banter was top notch, which I was hopeful after watching and following Stacey for quite awhile on social media. I struggled with the prose initially—which may be due to my lack of observation skills. It was jarring for me when the book suddenly switched to Ryon’s POV and the way it’s written, you don’t realize it for a moment. Had I initially noticed the chapter heading image, it may not have been so jarring, totally on me. Overall, wonderful book. Unappreciated the originality and am so excited for Chasm to come out.