Full disclosure, I did not know this was a sequel to an already written book, I dove into this fully believing it to be a standalone and so take all of this with a bucket of salt since I was missing so much context. I do plan to read The Shadows Between Us just to catch up and see how much I missed - but that’s for something to tackle later down the line.

So with that being said, I thought this was actually decently nice for a dark romance! It has a lot more character to our protagonist that feels authentic, her anger and scheming and wit feel not only earned but justified, even as she’s acting hastily or actively being cruel - it feels in character and I genuinely wanted her to get her estate regardless. The ending was fun, and it gave an intriguing insight into a character that by the sounds of things I’m going to have not much appreciation for when I get around to reading the first book in the series (whoops).

Some cheesy misunderstanding at the end, and some lines were a little repetative/came across as stagnating while the plot was trying to move forward, but it was a low steaks easy read.