bryiennefaye's reviews
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If soulmates could be described as characters, it would be Dante and Amara. I just really love the portrayal of how pure their love for each other is despite the darkness looming in their lives.

This book was a disappointment for me. Although there are moments where I enjoyed reading this—mostly on parts where we get to have crumbs of the characters of the series—the dread of just finishing this book ASAP overpowers it. Maybe it's the fact that I was already attached to the previous characters but it just honestly felt like I did not find the same angst that the first three books had on this one.

Although I only read this to pass the time during my study breaks, I still enjoyed it. The Predator is a dark romance story of two characters from two enemy mafia high circles and how they began to unravel buried secrets as they crossed paths. And the angst, the pent-up tension, and the stares? Oh, they were something else.

Oh, there is nothing I love more than a woman who's smart and powerful in a patriarchal world. With the secrets revealed in the first book, The Reaper still has a lot to uncover as the plot of the series thickens.

The Shadow Man and Lyla are so hot. Lyla deserves the world, especially with what she's been through, and I just love her so much. I also liked how the Shadow Man's character takes care of Lyla and helps her discover what she loves and her hobbies, and how he helps her slowly heal. Although there are moments when I feel like things should have been that way or this way, I'm still rooting for them to have their happy ending. What I don't love though: is the cliffhanger.

"She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her."

I could not even describe how this book broke and made me whole at the same time; and if only I could inject this into every fiber of my being, I would.

Alone With You in the Ether is about two characters who navigate love as they deal with their own personal issues. With the overall bizarreness of the atmosphere of the story, it perfectly describes all the quiet and small moments of falling and being in love. But at its core, I feel like what made this book special to me is: the way it showed love in its ugliest, most complicated, unconventional, and yet, beautiful form.

3.5 stars

3.5 stars

I did not like it, but I will probably give this another chance some other time in the future.

3.5 stars