3⭐️ 3.5🌶️
MOOD: adventurous, tense
TROPES: virgin main character, age gap, student/professor
VIBES: why choose, dark(-ish) academia, sibling rivalry, demonology
GENRES: fantasy/paranormal, monster romance, college/academy
FAV QUOTE: Okay. Clear path forward. Honesty. Appeal to her hormones. Be a psychopath.

MAIN CHARACTERS: Lila Denton, Adrian Karras, Marcus Emery, Ceto Arya

I wanted to like this one more than I did.  I had to go back and look at the BookSirens description (which matches the good reads description) to figure out why I wanted to read it because for most of the book it felt like nothing happened - no plot movement, no character development (particularly with Lila), or relationship growth - and this was the book I wanted to read so much that I had to go back and read Zodiac Hybrids first. This is probably not the series for me which is really disappointing. 

THE GOOD: The best part of this story/series is still the lore & world. Adrian, Marcus, and Ceto are still the most interesting characters and I wonder what it'd be like not to have a fourth main character since she very much feels like a stand in for the reader (but not in a good way most of the time). The new pieces of that were great. Unfortunately, almost everything thing else was lacking. 
THE NEUTRAL: I was expecting more Ceto. I also thought there would be more months/moons especially given that it was laid out what happens during full moons in the first book. The first 60% of this story felt like filler. What we learn about Aiden & Marcus as kids was interesting but didn't really add to what is happening in the present in a way that moved the plot or added to their relationship(s). There was even an author's note that the book was longer than planned and that's not always a good thing. I'm not a fan of love triangles and the why choose elements definitely fell into that type of element - more so in this book than in the first one.
THE MEH: Lila wearing shapewear/restrictive underwear felt ridiculous after everything that happened in book one. Her relationship with her body was fine in the first book, not great but fine so for that to appear repeatedly in the second book was weird. It's mentioned in the first book that she packed some and she wore it once (and it was ruined) then it's not mentioned again. There were also a few times when fairly defined characters acted in a way that seemed outside their character and that was annoying but maybe had a reason? 

CW: sexual content, dubious consent, public sex, manipulation/mind games
DISCLAIMER: I received an advance review copy. This is my honest review.