This book took me half a year to finish. And even longer to finally write a very short review, not exactly getting off to a good start here, huh? Plus I did temporarily DNF it in January because I had no intention to finish, but here I am.

That sounds so bad...

I, honestly, just kept losing interest in this one. Which was super disappointing because I wanted to like it. The general concept was interesting, but so many characters were a miss for me - especially Anya, and even though the overarching plot seemed interesting, not much happened here. I really really wanted to like Anya, she started as a character that seemed like she wasn't going to take any crap (and to be honest she didn't but it was done in a more obnoxious way) and be a really badass female character, but she was the biggest miss for me.
Everything came off as immature when it was related to her, which I don't think was the overall idea of her character, at least not for the most part. I also really disliked that although Lucien said no several times to her touching him, it was played off as a quirk to her personality and that she wasn't an "obedient lapdog" so she wasn't going to listen, as if that suddenly erases the fact that someone is not consenting (regardless of his physical arousal) - this happens so much in books like this, where they play it off because she's "quirky" or that they challenge themselves with proving the non-consenting person is "wrong" and that they "want it really" because their body has reacted slightly. The impact of this isn't just physical, it's psychological and emotional, and if someone says no, regardless of anything else, that should be respected. So even if it was made to be more of a quirk of hers, it's still not something I'm comfortable with. Not to mention the fact that she stalks him while being

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invisible and trying to will him with her goddess powers to do sexual acts without his consent (once again...)

because she wanted him to.

But in all honesty, the best word to describe this experience - cringe. Even with all the sexual tension between the two, it was just lacking, and the back and forth also got a little tiring, it lost its appeal to me after oh so many times of it happening. To be honest, the only interesting parts for me were with the other guys, specifically Reyes and Paris. I just wanted to get to their books.

(At the point of writing this I started book three - mainly because the only highlight from book one and two was the hints at

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Danika and Reyes

so I wanted to at least give their book a chance and out of the three it seems to be more for me, but man, Anya gets even more on my nerves in that one. Guess she really isn't the character for me...)