This book was okay. The romance and relationships were cute, but the characters were flat. I think the multiple POV’s would have done better if each was written separately, rather than intertwined, especially since Ris’s POV just gets basically dropped and is inconclusive in this book. 

My biggest gripe with this book was C.M. Nascosta’s writing style. Her writing was strangely passive and had poor flow, like there would be huge and unimportant descriptive paragraphs between dialogue lines that made the conversations hard to follow. 

A lot of the vocabulary was also incredibly repetitive. I’d get hammered if I took a shot every time I read the word “syrupy.” The same adjective would be used every time that the same thing was talked about. Like every single time the orc spoke, his voice would be described as syrupy, or if his eyes were mentioned they would be called honey-gold every single time, and it became very very dull. 

This is not a totally terrible book! Just not memorable.