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I loved this. I was unsure going in since the MMC is a musician and that’s generally not a character type I enjoy reading but the author created a character I slowly came to adore. Especially considering how much he adored Selene. Austin was the epitome of “not giving up on her”. He wanted her and he was going to do whatever it took to get her, knowing that her apprehension was rooted in the classism of her kind. I found their story to be particularly lovely. Plus it’s slow burn, he’s a consent king, and there’s breeding kink—a perfect trifecta.

The beginning was great but it lost momentum after their meet cute. Transitions became somewhat nonexistent so it often felt choppy or clipped. There was a hurried quality that the beginning lacked making some scenes feel rushed. And there were several moments that were very convenient making the ending feel unearned. But I liked the story overall even with those issues. The author definitely has talent and I wouldn’t mind reading more as it develops.

This is alien erotica not romance. The writing is rather fantastic and I like how the author toggles between the current incident and flashbacks to the FMC joining the program. It heightens the tension and build a sense of foreboding. Intrigued to see where the story goes. There is no resolution to this installment. Thankfully the author has enrolled a considerable number of them into KU. 

I really wanted to love it but I’m sadly bored. Struggled to get through the set up/pacing was slow. 

It was fine. Good when something was happening but boring when it was inner monologue, which there was a lot of and much of that was quite repetitive. It was very heavy handed on her behavior in high school toward the MMC and his friends, how turned on she currently was by his degradation of her, and how perplexed she was by being turned on by said degradation. It’s a novella. We don’t need to be told repeatedly. 

The content warning is woefully insufficient and needs the additions of on page rape of the FMC and a side character, implied rape of side characters, on page rape of the FMC with an object, incest, coercion, and contraceptive tampering added to it, among others. Non-con is not descriptive enough as that includes *any* type of behavior this is not consensual; not just sexual. 

Really interesting story for this installment in the series. We get more of a peek into the world of the Fae. This one is very dark but the author gives readers an alternative to skip the dark chapters with alternate, lighter ones. I didn’t get much of a connection between the main characters but I still enjoyed them together. The twist of the story as we finally learn the lineage of the FMC’s family and why they are being hunted is fairly riveting. I found the way the author utilized multiple pov while volleying between first for the FMC and third for everyone else to be very clumsy. The transitions are just not smooth. 

The ending was rushed and awkward. The FMC is rightly traumatized by her experience and it’s eluded to that she’s deceived via an illusion. No one corrects her experience, which I get the why of it, but that’s going to be interesting for a future installment that features her sister because the illusion will need to be unpacked. Or, I hope it is. But also ten years pass in the epilogue in this book. This part of the story is very messy and unclear. Maybe it will be cleared up when we get Leislah’s book. Still, I enjoy the series and think it worth a read if you like dark scifi fantasy romance. 

Henri was raised by humans and doesn't fully embrace the part of her that is wolf. She doesn't listen to her wolf and her abusive human boyfriend makes her unable to see the truth of her situation clearly. Henri has to work through her doubt about Deacon wanting her. He's so patient with her while she gets comfortable with the idea of them. Even though he's direct about it, she keeps denying it to herself. Until she can't.

Do not pick this up without checking the content notes; quite a few triggers If you like wolf shifters, read this series. Don't balk at the page length. I promise they go quick.

Immersive world building, superb character and relationship growth. Author is excellent at drawing out the tension of a threat while not lingering on it too long when it eventually hits.

And she does a remarkable job of balancing hard topics, emotional intimacy, and smoking hot spicy times.