This book was nowhere as dark, gritty or compelling as This Savage Song, so that comparison is totally redundant.

The premise is quite cool and I liked the idea of Time travel but the plot execution and the writing feels clumsy. The incessant repetition of words such as monsters and hero felt childish to me. Whatever happened to creativity?

The problem though were the characters. The main character, Joan is an annoying pretentious little shit. She is literally clueless about everything until she isn't. She is reckless and stubborn and it's not cute. Like I mentioned, she doesn't know anything about the monster world or how it works but as soon as she becomes a part of it she has all the solutions. She upstaged every other character and did not let them shine.

The romance is not convincing. The enemies to lovers/ star crossed lovers whatever the author wanted to convey did not land for me. Firstly, Nick is very bland, secondly, Nick and Joan hardly have any conversations so just because I am told they are star-crossed lovers doesn't mean I am going to believe it. Then there's another guy, Aaron thrown in the mix, his whole arc is being a moody little bitch with a tragic past (which we never get to know). If the author was going for a possible love triangle, that didn't land either.

Honestly, I would have DNFed this if it weren't an ARC!

ARC received via Netgalley!