🤩 Overall: Ok I mostly loved this! There were a few times where things weren't quite logical/consistent, or where Violet doesn't think as cleverly as her character should. But overall it was fun and action-y and loving and spicy and funny, like, what more could you want! Oh and I had heard it ends on a cliffhanger, which it does in a way, but it wasn't as immediate-peril-literal-cliff-hanging as I was led to believe. Like, I can survive the two years or whatever until the next book comes out. 

🎧 Narration: Mostly single POV (FMC) aside from a few POV jumps in the book's final battle. Each POV has a different actor narrating. One thing I did have a problem with, after having listened to the enhanced audio versions of books 1 and 2, is that it was hard to tell when Xaden and Violet were talking through the bond versus when they were talking aloud. The VA didn't really do anything different with her voice to make the distinction between the two different methods of communication, so at times I couldn't tell what people were overhearing or not.

🌶️ Spice: 3.5/5 There were a few explicit scenes, and they're well written and passionate and even a teeny tiny bit kinky (restraints), but they make up a pretty small percentage of the text overall. 

🏳️‍🌈✊ Diversity: Nothing new if you've read the other books in the series. The majority of characters seem to be POC. This world doesn't seem to have the weird notions of whiteness that we have IRL, and yeah, most people are Black or Brown or something other than pale/pink colored. They don't seem to have the same ideas of straightness either, since being queer is normalized too.