this is almost painful for me to admit but this has absolutely not even a smidge of the pepper winter-ness that I have always waxed lyrical about.
hellthis is almost painful for me to admit but this has absolutely not even a smidge of the pepper winter-ness that I have always waxed lyrical about.
hell i know it's different from what she gives us but it still lacks that sheer feeling and emotion that PW is capable of eking out through her writing.
and whatever dark romance corners it tried to explore fell flat.
saddens me cuz I was so stoked to be diving into my first proper 2025 book rather than re-reading oldies.
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this is almost painful for me to admit but this has absolutely not even a smidge of the pepper winter-ness that I have always waxed lyrical about.
hell i know it's different from what she gives us but it still lacks that sheer feeling and emotion that PW is capable of eking out through her writing.
and whatever dark romance corners it tried to explore fell flat.
saddens me cuz I was so stoked to be diving into my first proper 2025 book rather than re-reading oldies....more
goodness fkn gracious this book WRECKED me!! i felt like i was transported to the earlier cora creations when she had us all in a chokehold with her stgoodness fkn gracious this book WRECKED me!! i felt like i was transported to the earlier cora creations when she had us all in a chokehold with her stories then things went downhill. i felt like i am back in 2016 discovering cora and just head over heels.
but this. oh my god this??!! Growl and Romero's kids? I feel like an emotional, proud aunt my goodness.
it is so emotionally charged and tackles some absolutely soul crushing topics and i couldn't put it down. the sheer magnitude of the feelings and angst, hell i teared up quite a few times.
loved loved Maximum adored Sara (although she did annoy me at times)
but it was a beautiful, beautiful story and i am so happy that cora took us back to her original style n feeling....more
i have no idea what was happening, who was doing what in this story. everything is a jumble of events and situations happening and i cannot tell you ai have no idea what was happening, who was doing what in this story. everything is a jumble of events and situations happening and i cannot tell you anything because i understood nothing.
someone's marrying someone someone's training someone something someone has some magical prowess god i don't know don't ask me
she just screams, rages and is basically exhausting and annoying. nothing about the character is headstrong or whatever tf the intention was-- she's deshe just screams, rages and is basically exhausting and annoying. nothing about the character is headstrong or whatever tf the intention was-- she's deranged.
that's it. back to regency times it is for me because no book has made me feel this emotionally wrecked in a while!
this was a delicious and maddening sthat's it. back to regency times it is for me because no book has made me feel this emotionally wrecked in a while!
this was a delicious and maddening slow burn and just like that I was back in my teenage years devouring these historical romance genres.
Magnus & Alexandra were so frustrating but i loved them! I have lost the patience of waiting for characters to connect or the story to fall in sync quickly with the reading but this was so beautiful ughh.
adored it.
now back to my oldie favorites, time to read them all again for the gazillionth time....more
i feel almost duped cuz wtf was all this misleading?!!!
with weeks n weeks of anticipation, the crazed hype n that epic blurb -- this was a major miss i feel almost duped cuz wtf was all this misleading?!!!
with weeks n weeks of anticipation, the crazed hype n that epic blurb -- this was a major miss for me and it makes me so sad cuz I wasted my entire day on it.
god I'm so pissed.
you figure out the story very early on because with such plots it's either MPD or the route the author chose to take. How i wish she had taken the MPD plotline. sure it's been done quite a few times but it probably would have been more intense n better.
the characters here fkng SUCKED. i was expecting something ENTIRELY different.
look, the story is pretty great on paper (pun intended) and definitely does not lack some substance or suspense even.
but ..
with such blurb, you want an unhinged lunatic who is uber possessive and insane however tragically lots of sharing was happening here and that's never my cuppa. it ruined everything.
and the story drones on n on.
so while some stuff was done rather terrific, it didn't mesh well....more
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