I can't. Despite Hawke being on the cover, this book was mostly Tenyuu-Zaidera, which is absolutely boring, and tea parties, which might have been fun but the characters we're so fond of weren't present. Johan, Albert, Yuri and Aira were all not at the tea party. Just Liz but even then, the interaction wasn't much. I hope the next one actually has progress on the romance and we get more screentime on the characters we love.

This one was the hardest one to get through so far. It was so mind-numbingly boring that I had to take breaks and switch to other books in between. I think it's the Prince Ten-yuu plot, I honestly just couldn't care less about him. He was entirely uninteresting and took up 70% of the book for doing absolutely nothing. Luckily, the short stories at the end made up for my frustrations but it definitely wasn't enough.

Skimmed through the whole book. Meh.

Boring and damn slow 

The smut was finger-licking good and the romance was sweet but the issues with the bf/son left a bitter taste in my mouth. Nick was a man-child who didn't appreciate his dad's sacrifices to raise him and couldn't care less to be more attentive to his "girlfriend". Idk why FMC is referred to as his girlfriend when they both established they didn't have a serious relationship and it's just a fling. While the book wrapped up the romance really nicely, we're still left with so many questions regarding the relationship between the MMC and his son. Wished we got closure on that.

Normally I hate cheating but the FMC's husband is a complete man-child who clings to his mother and games all day everyday. He neglects her in every way possible and has abused her by not letting her work, not giving her access to any finances, isolating her from her family and friends, treats her like a maid, and allows his mother to verbally abuse and degrade her. While he was not physically abusive, it was still a form of abuse. 

I actually cheered when the FMC finally had the courage to open her eyes and realise the damn kidnapper was treating her better than her own husband. Really liked how everything unfolded and how she found her footing, independence and new love. 

Fast, hot and spicy! 🔥 But also sweet and warm 🥰 A great quick read.

I'm noticing a pattern with Rebel Bloom's books. The plots are usually recycled with different character names and settings but the storyline, conflict and conflict resolution stays very similar. This isn't entirely a bad thing, it means there usually aren't any unpleasant surprises and her books are a safe place to return to for palate cleansers or a light fun read.

This would have been a 4 star read if it weren't for the senseless big conflict.

The public humiliation felt very very out of character for these 3 particular MMCs  who were very protective and kind to the FMC from the start. Maybe in another book with a different set of love interests it would make sense but here, it felt rather forced. It just didn't align with any of the boys to treat her like that, especially Booth, the most levelheaded guy who was not a fuckboi seemed to cherish the FMC dearly. It was extremely out of character for him to follow along and participate in such a cruel "revenge". He seemed like the one out of the three who would get mad at the other two, and confront the FMC for her side of the story. Even for Fisher, it didn't really fit with his personality to be like this.

I still enjoyed the other parts of the book but I'm still very "wtf?" at the conflict as it didn't make sense to recycle this kind of conflict for this particular set of characters. It didn't make sense at all and I was very disappointed at the direction it went to. I was mollified by the way it resolved but it still left a bitter taste in my mouth.