Boring

This is booooring

I loved The Accidental Queen so much and was so excited for more of Shaya and Baas. However, I did not like the direction that this story took and if felt like a lot of it was just for shock value and to drag it out. Unfortunately I also found the ending very unsatisfying. It felt like we went through all of this almost for nothing.

Frankly I do not agree with Shaya's decision to

not tell Baas that he had a child. I understand that she didn't want to interfere with his marriage but that doesn't make it okay. Jay's delusion felt so our of nowhere and like unnecessary drama. For them to then decide that they want Bailey back despite it being a closed adoption just to turn around and take it back made it feel like it was pointless. And the in the epilogue finding out that Bailey's parents died before they could tell her the truth. Literally it's just like "honey you're adopted and we're going to contact your birth parents. The end" No reunion, no processing, no real conclusion

 

I’m just not feeling it

Not a big fan of the writing and I kinda just don’t care 

After the disaster that was the plot twist in Outraged I wanted to try to give a second chance to this author however, I cannot imagine the story of the contrast in how cases of missing Black women vs white women would be properly handled by the same person who made the villain in the first book

a white woman who intentionally seduced a Black man while cosplaying as a Black woman

I loved The Kiss Countdown and was super excited for this but it’s so boring and the way that Brianna stupidly makes up scenarios about how she is viewed or what other people are thinking is annoying

It's hard for me to root for characters who have an unpleasant first interaction and Duke was being an asshole

This is not at all a bad book. I just don't like fae and I know that even though I wanted to give it a try