this was the best one of the series yet!! 🫡 it is so action-packed with countless battles and planning to take back the throne - and we get multiple POVs!!! I could cry 🥹

seeing beyond romeria’s POV solidified the change in pace to me!! being able to get inside zander, atticus, and gracen’s heads was just SO good 🥲 we have to stan a conflicted bunch okay 

and this may be an unpopular opinion, but I absolutely loved attticus and gracen’s chapters!!!! the forbidden romance elements mixed with regret on taking the throne was just *chef kiss* - I love tension and it shows woo 

I still felt like this book served only to set up the final book - but at least we got more of a full picture of the world and its conflicts in this one!! and the fact we get dragons now? screaming crying throwing up!!! 

is this the most creative romantasy series I’ve read? no, but tucker does an amazing job of yanking the reader into the universe and convincing that these characters are morally grey but so human (even though they’re immortal) 🥹🥹

rating: 4 stars
wine pairing: sonoma coast chardonnay