edovard my sweet angel boy. i was hoping for something more dynamic for his character arc and struggled pretty significantly with how we glossed over the dubcon cum blackout romily suffered at santanos’s hands in book 1 only for santanos to be the romantic lead in this book. **review edit after ive slept. given that the interruption conversations between the extended foxily includes the comfortable connection of romily and santanos, it implies there’s been absolution for what happened. so i don’t have it in me to be mad if romily isn’t. i do now however wish we had gotten better characterization out of julia and co.