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divine529's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
Normally I'm not a huge fan of short stories unless they bring something important to the series, but these did. They added an extra layer to the world and it was really nice getting to see different perspectives and peek into other people's lives.
There are four short stories in this collection (in no particular order): (1) Pet (Berenger x Ancel), (2) Green But For a Season (Jord x Aimeric), (3) The Adventures of Charls the Veretian Cloth Merchant (Charls and Guillame and others), and (4) The Summer Palace (Laurent x Damen).
My favorite by quite a large margin was the one with Charls the cloth merchant. I could've read about him and their adventures all day. In fact, I would love a whole book about him please. Next, I loved the Summer Palace and finally truly starting to acknowledge and heal from the things Laurent and Damen went through. Pet was interesting. I didn't love it, but it added something extra for me and I do love Berenger and their relationship. Green But For a Season did nothing for me really.
All in all a fun collection.
There are four short stories in this collection (in no particular order): (1) Pet (Berenger x Ancel), (2) Green But For a Season (Jord x Aimeric), (3) The Adventures of Charls the Veretian Cloth Merchant (Charls and Guillame and others), and (4) The Summer Palace (Laurent x Damen).
My favorite by quite a large margin was the one with Charls the cloth merchant. I could've read about him and their adventures all day. In fact, I would love a whole book about him please. Next, I loved the Summer Palace and finally truly starting to acknowledge and heal from the things Laurent and Damen went through. Pet was interesting. I didn't love it, but it added something extra for me and I do love Berenger and their relationship. Green But For a Season did nothing for me really.
All in all a fun collection.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Slavery
Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Trafficking
Minor: Pedophilia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Fire/Fire injury
cait's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism
nicamooch's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
I didn’t read The Summer Palace the first time I read the trilogy because I wasn’t ready to leave the CapRi world behind. But it really is best read right after Kings Rising, it’s like the epilogue that the final book was missing. Even though I was expecting the fluff it really was so so soft 😭 they’re so in love please 😭😭😭 (did not expect to cry so much though 😭).
The Jord story was sweet- I love that we get the backstory as to why the Prince’s Guard are so loyal to Laurent.
The Charls story was so funny. Undercover DL was so cute. Also, Damen has curly hair and a dimple confirmed! Charls somehow has the ?warmest?descriptions of Damen’s appearance, it’s cute.
I did not expect to enjoy Pet so much. That was a such a wild ride. Ancel is a very ambitious and self-assured character, a different type of hyper confidence in comparison to Damen and just so interesting to read. I adored the dynamic he had with Berenger!
I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the other non-Damen perspectives so much, but I love that in all of them you get to see DL from an outsiders perspective at different points of their relationship development.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Slavery, Violence, and Trafficking
Minor: Pedophilia, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War