tendaii8's reviews
291 reviews

Like the first book in the series I absolutely loved it. The only reason I’m not giving it 5 stars is because in both books I found myself craving more from certain scenes in the book I felt could have been fleshed out more.

One of the biggest issues I have with this book is that I would have wanted to see some more elaboration on some aspects, scenes, and ideas presented throughout. apart from that, this book does not lack a lot. Angsty attractive men, strong sexually liberated woman lead (though she does have her demons in this book everybody does), and enough 🌶 to keep you blushing for a week after finishing the book.

This is the reason I don’t read amnesia stories. Then I went against my better judgment, listened to TikTok and read this one. How foolish of me. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t a bad book. My issues are largely personal preference. There are many people that would enjoy this book and I did like a good amount of it which is why I rated it the way I did. 

This story felt like drama for the sake of drama. I enjoy drama, but when it doesn’t have a reason behind it, it becomes one of the most annoying and tedious things to me and it felt like this book was full of it. 

There were numerous opportunities for Silas to tell Alanna that he knew her in a way that didn’t distort her memories. There were countless pieces of evidence pointing towards Ryan lying and Silas telling the truth for Alanna to listen to (watching her get upset that he didn’t tell her about her past when earlier in the book she specifically said it was something she wouldn’t want physically hurt). There were many times my boyfriend looked at me with concern when I would get frustrated at one of the characters.

This is the second book I’m reading by this author (I started with Bittersweet Memories) and something I’m noticing is that she’s a fan of emotional drama. I am not a fan of emotional drama. 

Let me be clear, I can definitely enjoy drama and I often thrive on it, but not when it feels forced or orchestrated just for the sake of it being there. The last almost 200 pages of the book felt like that to me. I understand hearing your mother say those things to you could really mess with your head, but to the extent it did with him I just found myself getting extremely frustrated. There were reactions and conversations in this book that just didn’t feel probable to me and like I said earlier very forced. 

Maybe I just have a problem with the writing style because I feel like it would have been better if some things had been tightened up throughout the book. As much as I take issue with those things I did really enjoy the book but I don’t know if I’m going to finish the rest of the series yet.

In the past couple of days, I have binged all four books in this series and they’ve all blurred together in my head so I’m doing one joint review here talking about anything I can remember. 

I really enjoyed the characters and their journey throughout the series. I’m not gonna lie, Pen’s aversion to just fully accepting the dark side really started to get on my nerves sometimes but that’s not anything about the book that’s just about my personal preference. It got really irritating when Beast was interrogating D-Neath and she was upset at the violence, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. I would have liked to see more of the dark side of her and the guys throughout the series. 

I found myself skimming over the parts where they were dancing for extended periods of time, I don’t know what it was about those moments I just found cringy and hard to read (especially if they just started randomly dancing at the most inconvenient moments). 

I really wish the author would have leaned in more to the connection between York and Dax and just had the balls to make both of them (or at least one of them) bisexual because I think that would have made the story and characters better. Saying that they could do it just because it turned her on felt like a cop-out. That scene in the hot tub was my favourite in the series by far. The romance and connection between Pen and the guys were definitely my favourite aspects of the story and is what had me coming back for every book. 

All in all the series was really good, and as long as I could get past any cringiness I was feeling at certain moments I thoroughly enjoyed it.