brii_brii's reviews
1971 reviews

 

Honestly, I had fun with this series. It’s definitely on the less serious side  (even though some kinda heavy stuff does happen) but these books were an easy read, fun and overall enjoyable. 

The Gwyn focus on this one really had me, as he's been my favorite mc since book one. Something about him gives me the happy warm and fuzzies.

I really appreciate that none of the guys really fought each other for dominance. They never machoed up and tried to one up or beat out the other guys. It just was. They cared about her and that was that. 

I liked the conclusion of the Ghosthand plot well enough. There wasn’t really a big bang, or a twist though. We kind of just ended up there, and got our explanation and our closure, and the story just kind of wrapped up nicely, with a little caveat of Briallen and her guys going off to solve more cases. While I liked this series, I’m not sure if I would commit to a spin-off series. 

 

 

This book was a bit more chaotic than the first, and I didn’t love it quite as much.

BUT. 

I enjoyed seeing more of Jack. I liked seeing more of Briallen and her powers, and even a bit of where she came from. 

I’m enjoying that each of the mc’s are kind of with her on their own. They cross paths with the other guys every once in a while, but they aren’t all playing at one happy family, and it’s kind of nice. I like seeing each relationship develop differently and on its own. 

I will say that these books have been pretty obvious, with no real twists involved, so the focus is really much more on the relationships of Bri and the guys rather than any real espionage or detective-ing, even though it is a big part of the plot.

 

 

This book was a lot of fun. 

Briallen was extremely over the top but really, if you don’t take this book too seriously, it was a pretty good time. I really like the whole espionage thing that we had going on. 

The slow burn into the harem was also great. I liked getting to know all of the mc’s on a personal level before they all ended up together in the harem. It really makes a difference to me when authors spend the time developing relationships instead of throwing us head first into love, and I really think that Cate Corvin did a wonderful job of that. 

Super interested to see where we go with serial killer aspect.

 

 

I pushed through this book pretty quickly, mostly just to read through the conclusion and be done with the series. 

Quinn was said to be (and kidnapped several times because she is) one of the most powerful demons that there had ever been. Do we get to see any of that? Uh. No. Do we get to see her hmm and haw constantly about which man she's going to choose? Yes. Did this make any kind of sense to me? No. 

I wanted to see this girl come into her power and kick some series ass, but she literally spends the entire series hiding behind her men - and others. 

I never grew to like any of the characters, or care about them. So, to be honest, I’m not sad to see this series go.

 

 

This book is really just a repeat of book 1. There's a bit more involvement in the plot but really, not too much happens. The two mc’s are still fighting over the fmc, but not in a cute way. There’s no wooing or romancing involved. They literally just argue with each other constantly about why they're the better choice than the other. 

I found Quinn to be very woe is me, that she complained a lot, and she couldn't make a decision to save her life (literally). Considering she’s coming into her power in this installment of the series, I really was banking on seeing some huge character growth and maybe some real relationship development. But, alas, it really all just felt the same as the first book did.

 

 

You know, considering the last couple books really went downhill for me, and I was not excited to dive into this one, I ended this series feeling pretty good about it overall. 

My biggest issue with the last two books was the lack of movement in the plot. So little happened with the characters or politically to move the story forward that I found myself so, so bored and struggling to get through. But this conclusion really stepped it up. To be fair, there was a lot that needed to be addressed before the story could end, so I think that really helped keep this book full of action and intrigue in order to keep the story moving. I was terrified going into this as I absolutely hate an amnesia trope, and we ended the last book very heavily on one. It was done really well though I think, there were enough other povs that we focused on that I barely even noticed what was going on with Auren, I didn’t even get a chance to hate it. 

I have to be honest here though, I still didn’t love this. I don’t know what happened between the first three books to the last three, but I didn’t love, or connect with these last three books at all. All of the extra povs felt out of place and unnecessary. The focus on so many additional characters really took away from the story of Auren and Slade that had originally captured my heart and pulled me into this story. 

While I was happy to see a faster paced story with a little more guts, it just wasn’t the story I was hoping for. After all of the build up I was left very underwhelmed by the final conclusion, which, in turn, left me feeling pretty hollow after all of the time I spent with these characters. 

 

 

I think this book just made me irrationally angry right from the get go. 

Our fmc, Quinn, starts off as this quirky, relatable down to earth girl. She's got curves, normal sized boobs, glasses, and bad hair days. Here I am rejoicing because this girl isn't one of those perfect girls that everyone swoons over, she's just a normal girl. Yeah. No. For like ten pages. Then she loses a ton of weight overnight and gets a flat stomach. She can suddenly see perfectly and doesn’t need glasses. Her hair grows and is perfect and thick and lucious. People literally stop her in the street to tell her how amazing she is. Because she just wasn't up to par before with all her flaws I guess, right?

Maybe I’m looking too deep into this, but like I said. Angry. Honestly, I was so frustrated by this that it put a damper on the rest of the book for me. Not that there was much of a plot anyways. This book is just two guys trying to out macho each other to get the girl. There’s some segments of her learning to fly, and coming into her power, but for the vast majority. Two dudes fighting over the all perfect, no flaws, gorgeous girl. Not even two dudes, plus the entire supernatural community, because not only is she flawless, apparently she's the last of her line, and bound to be super powerful or something. It didn’t really get into that too much, so who knows.

 

 

I needed this story so badly, and it was everything I wanted it to be. Well, that's not entirely true. I wish we had a bit more time with Svafa and Angantyr. I know it was a short novella, but after reading 4 books at this point, alluding to how much Svafa and Angantyr loved each other, I really wanted to see more of them together. 

Either way, the story was enthralling and heartbreaking, but it really couldn’t have gone any other way. 

 

 

This series gets better and better. Honestly.

This one really hit hard on so many emotional levels, I lost count of how many times I had to take a second to clear the tears from my eyes. There was a lot of loss in this one, but in the same breath, so much new life gained and my entire heart is invested in this story and its characters. 

I absolutely love watching Hervor grow into herself as a person, as a Jarl, as a mother and now 

as a Queen, she is everything I want in a fmc and I couldn't ask for more. 

I won’t lie though, I’m terrified of where we’re going in this story with her new baby. Will all of the bad omens and the Gods warning Hervor to be careful what she wishes for, I’m very nervous for what I’m walking into with the final installment in the series.

 

 

Well. I think of the three books in this series, I enjoyed this one the most. 

While it may have been outlandish, quite unrealistic and extremely overdramatic, this installment had more plot to it than both book one and two combined, and I was quite happy to finally feel like I was actually reading something with a little bit of substance. 

That being said, I still don’t like El. She’s just such a fake character and very self centered; I never could get past any of it to actually like her, or even connect with her on the smallest level. She also somehow transformed herself into some kind of super spy in less than six months after being  very kept and spoiled her entire life, and the entire flip of her felt forced and so, so fake. 

I don’t know. I won’t one star this one, because I wasn’t bored out of my mind the entire time like the first two, but I also can’t say that I enjoyed this… at all. 

Shout out here to the most confusing and random Pandora’s Box ending that didn’t fit the story and just served to absolutely stun me.