"I actually feel completely and utterly ruined by this beautiful, perfect book. I sobbed through the last 15%, absolutely inconsolable, dry heaving open mouth sobs, wrecked with my love for the characters and this universe. I am devastated to say goodbye to this perfect little world but man, WHAT A WAY TO GO.

Wild and Wrangled was the absolute perfect ending to this universe - a beautiful homage to everything Rebel and its people, as well as the home and hope and community Lyla’s created here. Lyla is simply masterful in what she does, and brought everything in this book full circle—all the dots and stars aligning from the very first page of D&D to the very last of W&W. It was beautiful and powerful and fated and magical and filled to the brim with love and longing and YEARNING and joy. I am genuinely going to be thinking about it for the rest of my life.

Lyla has a way with words that cut right through me and dig themselves under my sternum. I feel seen in every story of hers, safe in the characters she handcrafts to be kind and flawed and loving and messy and worthy of love. Cam and Dusty both spoke to me in different ways. They’re such different characters in the RBR universe—Cam in her people pleasing search for perfectionism and satisfying everyone else at the cost of her own happiness, and Dusty in his desire to finally put down roots, wanting to feel still and settled for the first time in his adult life. It’s a profoundly beautiful thing to watch two people who are destined to be together, go their separate ways, live a whole lot of life to become the people they need to be, find each other again and still fit, maybe not exactly how they used to but in a whole new way that’s stronger and more solid."