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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Enjoyable read, but it did get repetitive sometimes about things. I got kind of frustrated with how naive Sabine was (considering how she grew up its understandable) a few times in the story, so I am really hoping the next book won't have that as much. Her ability sounded really amazing and I loved how it ended up being used. I am curious how much more her ability will develop now that she is somewhere she can freely use it. With how the book ended I am curious who is end game for her.  Can't wait to see what happens next, I hope Moonlight Book Box continues the series so that I can have matching books!

  • Arranged Marriage
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Forbidden Romance
  • Bodyguard Romance
  • Forced Proximity
  • One Bed


Nature will never betray me like a man.
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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 can see why so many people have liked this book! I really enjoyed the banter in this and the found family. I loved how Callie Hart wrapped up the book nicely while still leaving you wanting to learn what happens next. I loved Saeris and Kingfisher, but the side characters (Carrion, Lorreth, Renfis, and Onyx especially) were also amazing.

  • Fated Mates
  • Found Family
  • Slow Burn
  • Forced Proximity
  • Memorable Side Characters
adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was a reread for me so I can finally finish the series and I decided to give the dramatized audio a try.
While I still enjoyed the book, I think I enjoyed it more when I first read it years ago. I still love Kate's character, same with the rest of the characters. I am happy to be back in this world.

Dramatized Audio:
I liked it over all and enjoyed that it allowed me to multitask more. I don't think I really cared for some of the narrators (like the one that did Curran's voice, its just not what I heard in my head when reading it, he sounded too old maybe? not sure other than he was just off for me) and some of the background music choices but I will more than likely continue to listen to these. 

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I enjoyed the smut in this and to be fair you are warned that there is not much plot so I'm not mad. This does make me want to find more books that are similar but with more of a plot.

  • Dark Alice in Wonderland
  • Why choose
  • Smut
tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I liked the idea of this book and some of the parts which is why I'm giving a tentative 2.75/5 stars. The biggest negative for this book is that it didn't feel natural. The way the characters (primarily the MMC and FMC) talked seemed forced, unnatural, and consistently left me thinking that people do not talk like that. This made it very hard for me to read and took me quite awhile to finish. Hoping the next book is better.

  • Forced proximity
  • Romance writers
funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was a quick, easy read for me and so cute. It gave me all the cutesy, cozy, stars hollow vibes that I have enjoyed with the Dream Harbor series. I absolutely loved how adorable Olive was.

  • Small Town
  • Forced proximity
  • Slow burn
  • Single dad

"She liked relationships like she liked her chicken wings, hot and fast."
emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I enjoyed so many things about this book! Just starting out I love that it was about a diver and a swimmer, both sports I feel get severely under represented in real life and entertainment. The STEM rep I loved and really want to find more books with it since I work in a STEM field. I always love when there is mental health rep in stories and when they show that there is nothing wrong with getting help, so that is a given. I think my only hold up to not giving this book 5 stars is the epilogue, I really did not care for the format of it and I wanted more from it.

  • Mental Health rep
  • STEM
  • Diver/Swimmer
  • Slow burn
  • Secret hookups
  • Opposites attract
  • he falls first
  • Golden boy MMC

"Mostly, I'm afraid of attempting something and not being perfect at it."
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was a great enemies to lovers dark romance! I enjoyed the read overall, the banter was amazing, spice was great. 
While being a military romance it was far enough away from actual military for me since the characters are all in a secret part of the military. The military part of the story is also where my main complaint/confusion comes from. I do not understand how she was still a private with how long she had been apart of the military and I didn't really understand their rank structure. Like I said tho since this isn't true military and the military aspect in my opinion wasn't exactly that big I was able to overlook it and enjoy everything else.
lighthearted mysterious tense 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

Short and ultimately sweet. I feel so bad for Millie about her relationship (or lack there of) with her parents. I do feel like part of the story wasn't tied up as nicely as it could have been
Mostly I just want to know how the guy was stalking her and what the point of the prologue was for this story
Now I can read the last book at least.
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I am so happy I tend to try to go into books blind because it made it so much better. (So I'm going to keep this super short)
That plot twist!!! it has left me with so many questions and really wanting to talk to others about it (this was a book club read for me and I am waiting on everyone to read it)
I need the next book like now!