thedailydiva's reviews
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3 middle of the road stars…

Pros: 
- I will always rout for the villain. I love a wounded hero. I think villains make better main characters. 
- Enjoyed the characters and their parallels to the original story. 
- The mystery was simple but really good. 
- Great cast of side characters. 

Cons:
- Morally ambiguous MMCf just didn’t work. I really didn’t like her version of Hook. Meh. I didn’t believe him. 
- Tried to hard to sell this evil persona. Book, in general, felt like forced dark erotica. 
- There’s a thin line between erotically dark bad boys and non-redemptive psychopaths. This book was more of the latter and just not well written. Meh. 
- FMC was far too forgiving and simply weak. Some of her reactions and forgivings were just odd. 

I’m willing to give the rest of the series a try. I’ll try one more, but my hopes aren’t high. If it’s more of the same then this author just isn’t for me. 

Oh man… ☹️

First, it must be super stressful in trying to write a series, when the first two books were bestsellers and hit it out of the park (for most), to try to eek out another amazing story. Ya gotta know when your story has reached its zenith. The plot of this story is just too thin. I do not see how she is stretching this into a FOURTH book. Unfortunately I was under the assumption that this was to be a trilogy!?! So lo and behold this book was almost useless filler. Yikes!

I felt as if the characters just ran around her world in circles for 700+ pages. Going hither and thither, letting the reader see more of Navarre, its isles, and politics; but for why?!? What happened over the course of those 400+ pages our MCs are traipsing isle to isle? Absolutely NOTHING! 

I was so bored. And though super tempted to skim, I painstakingly read every redundant passage. It was like copy and paste in each new location. 😖

Lastly, if Violet continued to wax on and on about how ‘hot’ Xanax was I was gonna rip the pages out. Their angsty, ADHD, awkwardly trying to be intense love scenes were just awful. These scenes just didn’t feel authentic! Who has sex like that?!? I don’t want it. Lmao. Yuck! I’m not sure if I’m unsatisfied by the authors style of writing intense, ‘passionate’ love scenes, or if it being purposefully done to indicate the characters youth and immaturity? Both options are poor. Just not for me. I laughed aloud at some of her descriptions. I’d quote some here, but no. Just bad. 

I love this series! This was a shot missed. I’m hopeful she can bring it back in her fourth installment. And I REALLY hope that is the final book. Any more, and I’m out! ✌🏽