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This series has been a big let down so far and this book didn’t help my opinion.

I’ll start with my positive thoughts. I like the main couple together still. I like some of the side characters. Some of the lore is intriguing.

Now for my not so positive thoughts. The lore is confusing and it feels like it changes a lot since the FMC doesn’t know much of it and we learn as she does. The plot is very slow moving. There are so many “reveals” that nothing is surprising and most of them are then “revealed” to be something else entirely pages later. It feels like you can’t trust anything said or done because it could change or be a lie. The characters have the same conversations so many times in this book and they are STILL having the same conversations from Book 1 and 2. Being inside of the FMC head is mind numbing at this point in the series. I want to like her but being in her head is frustrating as a reader.
There is potential for a good story if only the writing was better. It is just so hard to read and enjoy it when the book feels repetitive and slow. All of these books in the series so far could have been hundreds of pages shorter or just combined.

For a large part of the driving force of the second book and this one being finding Ian and Malik it felt extremely disappointing what we actually got.
All of the plot twists and changes to what Poppy is and who her parents were was confusing and unnecessarily repetitive.
The ending was so cheap and parts of it felt obvious as the story progressed that I wasn’t very surprised by the twists or by the cliffhanger.

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adventurous funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This would be camp if it wasn't sincere.

I feel like there was so much potential for a good story and it was completely wasted.
I enjoyed the basis of the plot and the conflicts I felt made sense to the story line, but good lord, the dialogue is some of the worst I've ever read. Genuinely Ive read ao3 fanfics written better than this. Everytime I started to think the story was getting good or it was redeeming itself, the dialogue ruined it.

Idk how Casteel puts up with Poppy but honestly he is just as insufferable. All the characters personalities are flat, Poppy is "nOt liKe oThEr GiRls", a huge pick-me, and everyone just eats it up??

It took me until a few chapters into this book that there are two guys "Malec/k", I thought she was misspelling the name the entire series. Also both opposing queens names are too similar and it was confusing. These are all side characters that are only talked about we don't really meet them throughout the story so I felt that made it more confusing.

The ending was a cop out, imo. once the twist happened in chapter 46, I just skipped ahead to the last chapter and read from there.

I was really hoping that since they were married now, there would be some good smutty scenes but there was like 3? 4? and they were mid at best.

Tbh, I think I'm avoiding this author from now on.

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adventurous challenging emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

For the first 80% or so, I was OBSESSED. Casteel Da'Neer the man you are 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Cas and Poppy are my babies 🥺 could've read about them for another 800 pages. What I don't wanna read about is worldbuilding/info-dumping. Throughout this book, there's at least 5 theories on who Poppy's parents are. I'm TIRED. Noone's who they say they is. Everything is a lie. I have no clue what's going on anymore ngl 😭 and I cba to try and figure it out

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