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Honestly, I didn’t quite love this book and it didn’t live up to my expectations. I love witchy stuff, anything to do with magic, I’m in. But I feel as if this book was anything but that. We had some magical scenes, some random unexplained things thrown in, but all in all, it wasn’t what I thought it’d be. I felt as if the whole plot/reason of the book- finding or finding out what happened to Violet just didn’t happen necessarily. I did love Sasha and Quinn. They both were badass women characters. But I feel as if Sasha was painted as someone with HUGE secrets to hide, and in reality she didn’t have too huge of secrets. The ending scene/chapter really left me confused and again, I feel as if we never got an answer to what happened to Violet.

Grant Harding is every girls dream man. A hard ass whose only soft to the girl he loves, uses your body for his pleasure, but loves you hard when he’s done, and is respectful to your daddy. He’s a private investigator whose recently opened his own firm, and his first big job is at Magnolia College. The college where the girl he hasn’t stopped thinking about for 4 years father works, and where his little sister Callie goes. 

Avery Clark is a 22 year old graduate student. And 4 years ago she fell for Grant Harding when her father hired him to protect her. Now 4 years later she’s helping her father at Magnolia College, and gets to meet Grant again. 

Their instant love was amazing. I loved getting to see Grant’s hard exterior slowly melt for Avery. Avery is a badass, who doesn’t need anyone to protect her, but Grant always will protect her regardless. She needs trained for her new LA security job, and Grant is just the man to do it. The way Avery grows while working with him and his team was phenomenal. I love getting to see her ideas for ways to catch the perpetrator, she’s so intelligent. 

I love the ending, so much. Grant definitely does what I was wishing he’d do all book. I love how he keeps his past as his own business, until Avery asks and he slowly lets her in. Almost makes me want a P.I cowboy 

Rhiain and Asterin’s story was heartbreaking, but one full of love. The reality of their lives were dark, but they made their lives together as bright as a the sun. 

Rhiain didn’t have the easiest life growing up with her father. Her best friend and his family are dead, thanks to her father who decided they had to die to punish her. She was forced to live for 3 years training to be an assassin, even though she’s a Princess. And now her fathers marrying her off to their enemies son. But first she has to go to the Resplendent Reliquary, for a mission for her father. 

Rhiain is such a badass. I love how she defied her father’s wrong doings and chooses to do things that she thinks is right. She still has a lot to learn, but she is always going for these things, to learn. She made decisions to help her family, her kingdom, and eventually her love. 

Asterin is a complex character. He was closed off and hard to understand, and eventually he became caring and helped Rhiain understand things, she should’ve understood. He’s exceptionally smart and is super handsome. He’s skilled with his sword and is threatening without having to do too much. He’s also extremely skilled in bed, thanks to all his practice. 

This book is probably my favorite out of The Book of All Things series by Sarah. I loved every second of this read. I recommend this for any fantasy lover who loves 🌶🌶 

I love the multi perspective in the book. Not only do we get Phoenix’s POV, we get Colton’s, Daxon’s and Mason’s. And I loved each of their chapters. I hope the next book has more of the boys POV. 

Phoenix was definitely a badass bitch. I love how headstrong she was. She was such an amazing person, who had so much bad shit happen to her. She’s definitely got the rough end of things. I love how she tried to keep her head up with everything going on at school. 

I did not like any of the “three kings”. They’re super judgmental towards Phoenix and they believe things without knowing the full truth. I did not like the personality change they did, (okay I liked the writing of it, but I don’t like them). I feel as if the boys are lost and can’t decide what to do. 

I cant wait to see what the next book has in store for us all. 

I loved the dual perspective of present and past. I loved getting to learn about the past & present of Macy and Elliot. The ending made me bawl, I did love the ending tons. 

I don’t like Macy as a person, but I loved her character. She’s been through so much, with her mom and dad. And getting to see exactly what she thought about those events, as an adult and a child. She was not someone who went after love, she ran from it. Because everyone she loved left her, in one form or another. I do wish we got more chapters ABOUT Sean. I don’t like that we didn’t get too many with him and we were soo focused on Elliot. 

Elliot is probably one of the LAMEST characters I’ve read about. He didn’t really get any form of explanation during the adult/current chapters, and all of his explanations were as a child/teenager during the past chapters. I wish we were able to get more of an explanation about him. I do wish we got more information about Rachel, she was in like 2 chapters, but seemed to be such a bigger person than 2 chapters worth.

Talon and Elle were so similar, but their lives were so different. Talon is working to get back into his spot in the Bratva, his uncles mob. Elle is one of the daughters of an ex-mob man. 

Elle is a fiery spirit. I love how she is never afraid to backdown from a fight & she is always there for her twin sister Nora. I loved Nora’s character and the representation we got for PCOS/ovary problems. It was definitely something fresh in books for me, and I hope to see it again. Elle is definitely a troubled teen. Or maybe she’s just too into the mafia life that she lets it get to her. Because she got herself into trouble, and had to get a security guard. Because she can’t keep herself from lighting cars, and drùgs on fire. 

Talon is definitely a macho, sexy, mafia man. He’s a biker, which is 🥵 all by itself. He shows his cool side to Nora and Elle, and eventually shows Elle more than just the cool side of him. He shows her the loving side, that also rams into her like she’s worth every moment. Definitely a 10/10 boyfriend in my book. I loved getting to see parts of Talon’s past, and that it plays into the sequence of events throughout the novel. Definitely a plot twister.

Lee and Ben’s unlikely re-meeting was definitely not just by coincidence. Ben and Lee are too closely in the same profession, and they’re both from Texas. I liked getting to see Lee and Ben work together- that is if you can even call it that. 

Lee was not a super likable character for me. I understand where Ashley was trying to go with Lee, but she seemed like a smartass that expects to be the best and to get things handed to her. Until Ben comes back into her life, and she no longer gets it handed to her. And then she pines after Ben? After she was the one that left him and made it to where his life was ruined. 

Ben reminded me of the golden retriever, popular boy. He got what he wanted because of his charm & appeal. He made most of the big decisions, and was able to get into situations because of who he knew. 

This book didn’t live up to any hype, honestly kind of lived up to the mixed reviews that were there. 

This novel reminded me a ton of the game “Clue” but I loved it. We got to see a lot of different POV’s, got an amazing backstory, and even got some chills down our spines. Lucy Foley spins a creepy tale that makes you itching to turn the page to try to figure out who got murdered and who was the murderer. 

My favorite POV’s that we got were Hannah and Jules. I loved being able to see into Hannah’s mind, considering her husband can’t keep from flirting with Jules. Charlie was not a favorite from me, from page 1. He seems like the cocky man who had “the right girl but wrong time” and takes it out on his wife. 

Jules was such an intriguing character and it really made me love her character so much. She was selfish, Olivia was not her favorite, even though they were siblings. And no matter what Olivia always had to upstage her, as Jules likes to say. But needless to say Jules was the best big sister in the end.

Holy cow 😍 Dare and Billie’s love story was amazing. I loved the friends to enemies to lovers trope going on. They had so much history and chemistry that it made my jaw drop. 

The history of the friend group with Eddie- made my heart wrench. The way that Dare and Billie go on after that tragic event, was hard. Even to read. But I’m so glad that I did because the way that Billie got better as time went on, was amazing. 

The spice in there was- amazing. The way Dare handles Billie. And the way she handled him 👀 I need some more of that to read. I cant believe I have to wait so long for the next one 🙃

Now the novel did have its sad moments, but every great novel does. And the tears turned into laughter which turned into happy tears. I loved the ending so much. I definitely recommend this for EVERY spice lover. 

Clara and Ian’s love story was adorable. Clara is down on her luck, having just got broken up with, in a TERRIBLE way. Ian just can’t find anyone who won’t use him for his daddy’s money, since his dad is the richest man in town. 

They meet in an unlikely, crazy way. And their time spent together was hilarious to read about. I love all of the paparazzi chapters, the energy was just phenomenal. They’re complete opposites, Clara and Ian. But they use an unlikely situation to fall in love. 

The epilogue/One year later chapter was so sweet. Ian definitely became who I thought he would and I’m so happy that they got a happily ever after.