stinasara's reviews
521 reviews

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️(with description, light dom/sub) 

 

Posey is always trying to help the other guys get the girl so it’s about time he got his shot at something other than a one night stand. The story is much like Posey himself - funny, caring. He definitely is the star of the show! 

Like the third book in the series, Quinn doesn’t show us a whole lot of reasons why Levi and Wylie work. It isn’t even really told to us either, which was a disappointment. It just felt like lust up until the end when they stand up for each other against Wylie’s dad. 

Also, Wylie’s dad is an emotionally abusive! 

I didn’t like that Wylie didn’t leave when Levi asked her multiple times to leave. To me that’s going against consent, she didn’t have consent to watch or be there with him. 

I do love my FRIENDS references! 

 

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⭐️⭐️.5 

🌶️🌶️(euphemism) 

 

Paisley was incredibly annoying. Hank brings up multiple reasons now she has changed and how her views are skewed, she is refuses to listen. Which is ironically what she accuses Hank of doing towards the end of the book. 

Paisley keeps saying that Gigi is her best friend, but we barely see Gigi. Not a negative, just freaking weird. 

I have decided to dnf this series. I have given the series a chance with reading two books, and I am not convinced I will enjoy the other two in the series. I am getting better at dnfing and that it’s okay for something to not be for you. 

 

recommend: sure 

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

🌶️🌶️🌶️(multiple with little to no description) 

 

The book isn’t bad, but it didn’t meet my expectations. 

 My biggest issue is that we’re told about the past rather than shown it—there isn’t a single flashback. Things that were teased, like their first kiss, her bachelorette party, and her eventually finding out about the poker nights, are all missing. It would have been better to make this book longer—like Zane and Celeste’s—because it would have worked in this book’s favor. 

 

There were things I did like. I loved Sierra and Xavier; they were genuinely very cute. I also loved how Raven and Dion were there for them every step of the way, and I enjoyed seeing the Windsors again as well as meeting the Kingstons. 

 

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 

 

Eli and Victor are both villains; they just have different ideologies. They’re two unhinged, arrogant, competitive “platonic” friends turned enemies. Both manipulate and kill everyone, and they’re hellbent on killing each other. 

 

Victor doesn’t see himself as a good person, but he believes he’s justified in his path for revenge against Eli. Eli is the most hypocritical, delusional, deranged, self-obsessed, “pick me” little psycho ever. I LOVED IT! 

 

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⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️(description) 

 

I love how open Isaiah is. He wants Kennedy, and he makes it known. 

I love the relationship between Isaiah and Kai. I feel like it's shown more in Isaiah’s story than in Kai’s. 

I also love how much they communicate about what they like in bed. 

I feel a bit weird about the plot. The main plot is the marriage and Isaiah essentially helping Kennedy, but if you asked me what happened in the book, I wouldn’t remember. 

The epilogue doesn’t need to be that long! 

 

I'm not spending my time with a book I already feel the same as I did with the first one. It's not worth it.

 

⭐️⭐️.5 

🌶️🌶️🌶️(barely description) 

 

I genuinely loved how open Cameron was. He says he finds her attractive and that he’s jealous. The problem is that Adalyn doesn’t know what to do with that information, which was both annoying and sweet. Both main characters were annoying, though. Cam used “darling” way too excessively! Adalyn was a bit insufferable, and Cam doesn’t really have a personality. 

 

This book took way too long for me to finish, mostly because it felt like a 500-page book—but not a good one. There were good aspects, though: all the animals, especially the goats, the angst between Adalyn and Cam, and Adalyn’s mom, Marciela. 

 

 

⭐️⭐️.75 

🌶️(off page) 

 

I like that we’re following two love stories! 

These aren’t the most likable characters, which is disappointing for me because I don’t particularly enjoy reading main characters I don’t like. 

The characters who are most important to each other aren’t communicating, which is definitely annoying—whether romantically or platonically. 

Because the book was so short and featured two couples, I feel like I don’t really know the characters. 

I have now read K.L. Walther three times. Two were meh, and one I loved. I probably won’t read anymore from this author. 

 

 

I enjoyed Violet more in this book. I liked that she stood up for herself, saying she doesn’t trust them anymore. She was clear with her feelings of betrayal, even if she understood the others at certain points. She was able to make it clear that trust goes both ways. However, when Xaden goes out of his way to show his feelings, and that he trusts her, and she still doesn’t fully accept it, which was annoying. 

 

I know this book has been hit or miss for some people. To me, it feels a bit like a filler book. We’re getting so much new information, new characters, and new plotlines. They’re doing things that seem mundane but aren’t really; this book serves to further the overall plot. The book doesn’t have a fully formed plot, but it’s further the plot of the entire series. 

 

This book felt a bit long, wasn’t the best feeling. I am pissed at the ending, but it’s a good kind of pissed off. 

 

It’s hard to write an entire fantasy series for the first time. It’s especially hard when the first book is so hyped and amazing—the rest of the series has to match a 5-star start, and people develop super high expectations. I think Yarros has written 2 great books. 

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

🌶️🌶️🌶️(some description) 

 

recommend: 100%!

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🌶️🌶️🌶️(2 scenes, some description)

I was so afraid to read this book because of all the hype, but boy, did this book not disappoint! There were parts that I think could have been done better, but overall, I loved it.

One part that annoyed me was that Violet is at a dragon rider's college where killing is part of the culture, but she never kills anyone! Girl, they tried to kill you! You can’t “talk” through everything and “solve” it! The point of the college is to survive and become part of the army, but she is so scared to kill anyone, even to save herself. It’s starting to get on my nerves.

But I loved seeing the relationship between Violet and Xaden turn into something more than just family enemies. It was slow but clear. I loved how, in the beginning, Violet clearly thinks Xaden is hot, but every time that thought pops into her head, she goes: don’t think that!

Something I hope changes in the second book, or further into the series, is that Dain gets his head out of his ass. I’m not okay with basically anything he did in this book. He’s supposedly Violet’s best friend but doesn’t believe or trust her and, towards the end,

betrays her more than Xaden does

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Enemies to lovers
* Betrayal
* Dysfunctional family
* Fated mates/bonds