I am sad that I didn't love this book.

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I was stress out through the whole thing. Wanted them to address the whole issue with Kal keeping his secret and they didn’t. Then the whole Tyler thing with Kal's sister and not giving her a free pass and just pushing Kal away. Then with Scarlet and Finn I wish that would have been developed more in the other books and not because they were stuck together.

Kal and Tyler had no interaction at all apart from the future Tyler. Which kinda off didn't make no sense for him to be mad at Kal and Aurora for being gone like it was their fault that everything went to shit. And he ended up with his sister but still does forgive Kal. I know they go through a lot in the war after they disappear but still to have that grudge for all those years and just accept Kal's sister.

I expected a little more, it felt like it was too sorted out. Even though I wanted to know what happened throughout the whole book it still didn’t address the issues about the relationships between the characters at all.

Between a 2.5 and 3 the world itself felt really rush and wish there was more character development.

As a person that only read this book and not read her previous trilogy. I do recommend to read the other book series first. I did feel lost at times. I feel like I would have enjoyed the book more and understood more if I read her previous series connected to this one.

It had a lot of spicy scenes but was a mix more with a lot of TW. We have more MMF, MM, and MMFM in this one.

I was not expecting the pass sexual assault plot in the story. Not shown on page but reenacted.

I felt it was okay. Didn't really feel much pull into it.

I LOVE Karina Halle books and this one is no exception. This world and these characters. I really loved the story and can't wait were it leads. I need more!