I had the absolute best time reading this and I need the sequel right now. I'm obsessed with this story, the world, and all of the characters in it. 

If you're looking for a fantasy with a romantic plot and regency era spring vibes... this is for you. I feel like spring is the season of the fae and Sasha Peyton Smith filled her world with flowers and bargains for us.

This is technically YA, but I have some gripes with it. Yes, it's bloody, violent, and can be very dark at some points (we're dealing with fae here)... but those aren't the parts I had issues with. I am a firm believer that YA should not have explicit sex scenes. I'm not a prude and do enjoy a well written sex scene (which I think were well done here), but I love YA fantasy romance books because they tend to lean into the tension rather than the physical release of it. I live for the anticipation and the yearning, not so much the touching.

Don't get me wrong, I loved this book for what it was, but if I were still a school librarian, I would not have this book in my collection for students to read, which is a problem if it's considered young adult.

However, this is not the reason I deducted a star. I absolutely loved this book and was tearing through it at a rapid pace. I was fully prepared to give this a five star rating until the last thirty pages of the book. I thought that the twists were well plotted, but poorly executed. It was a lot like the villain at the end of the movie explaining how and why they did everything.