Onley’s writing is as good as I believe it always is, just as engaging and entertaining as ever…

…that said, I didn’t care about Shiloh; I thought he was annoying, truthfully. He seemed to be an exact copy of Ever—a more insecure, yet equally-damaged Ever—and they end up besties, so I know that’s the point, but having essentially the same MC in the first two books of a series made it feel repetitive and a little boring to me. I couldn’t wait to be done with his chapters, even with Liam reading them to me, because his inner voice was so irritatingly… whiny? It was kind of endearing with Ever, but Shiloh isn’t as endearing to me as Ever, you get me?

Levi was a little more interesting as an MC, but I feel like we got more insight into him as a person in short conversations with side characters than we were given from Levi or Shiloh; I enjoy learning about the MCs through their super depressing thoughts or experiences, not through a third party. Levi’s inner realization (rather than Nico’s word) that his mother could possibly hurt someone other than himself—Shiloh—would have given me the Reader Rush I crave and probably boosted my rating another star. Their entire on-page relationship until the incident near the end seemed to be entirely sex—which Onley definitely delivers on writing; it just would have been nice to have relationship moments—like Jericho and Freckles, like Arsen and Ever—rather than a sexual bucket list.

Overall, I most likely won’t revisit this, but Liam did an excellent job narrating, and I’m not disappointed that I listened to it.