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From the human afraid to leave her rooms in the first book, always wearing leather and armor, she will now prowl with confidence castle halls and city street’s in nothing else than common clothes. If vampires were ravenous for her blood before, seeing her as prey, now with the mark of heir, they fear and admire her. The great and the not-so-great aside, I really do think this series is worth a read. The characters are easy to like and relate to, and the romance is fun. I am looking forward to the next duet, especially after reading the author's note and the hint about book 3. Let me touch you,” he rasped. And Goddess, yes, he was begging, every word desperate. “Let me feel you. Even though I don’t deserve you. Please.”
His shitty interludes made me wanna take a lovely lovely bath with my toaster. We already walked through his story in the first book, those chapters in this book were unnecessary not to mention annoying. OKAY WE GET IT, YOU RE SAD AND POETIC AND YOU CRY ALL THE TIME. WOO-HOO POOR RAIHN. It was also so weird that he kept thinking about his ex all the damn time. Like, are you sure you are in love with Oraya? The second detail is expanding more on the reasons behind Vincent’s decisions towards Oraya as his daughter and his love towards her. But why is he the only exception to how to treat his child? Any father truly loving his daughter or son would try to grow them into a decent human/vampire being. Vincent is the only decent father in the history of “royal” vampires who aims to achieve that? Please. However, this book elevated it to new and better heights and Carissa Broadbent built upon the foundation of the first book so beautifully! I can’t fault it. I think my biggest issue with this one is that the conflict didn’t feel super high-stakes to me. We are told that the villains of this story are extremely evil, but I wanted to see more of it. We know Simon is evil because of what we hear from Raihn. Raihn was Neculai’s slave (perhaps a sex slave?) and Simon was a noble at the time so he participated in the depravity but we don’t really hear a lot of the details. I think if we had seen more of this in action it would’ve made Simon a better, more believable villain. I felt like I didn’t know him at all. Same with Septimus. He was sorta just there. I needed them to be more evil.
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Raihn. My downfall and my most valuable supporter. My weakness and my strength. My worst enemy and the greatest love I had ever known." This book butchered the build-up and the cliffhanger the first book provided. None of it mattered in this book. Such a waste. When they say there’s a fine line between love and hate, these two encompassed that. The slow-burn romance between them was the sweetest kind of torture. Every interaction between them had me on the edge of my bed. I was tense. I was pining for them! I could not get enough of them.
Vincent had ruined me. He had saved me. He had loved me. He had stifled me. He had manipulated me. He had made me everything that I was. Everything that I could be. Even the greatest parts of my power, the parts he never wanted me to find, were his. And now here I was, poring over every wound he gave me. And no matter how much they hurt, I never wanted them to heal, because they were his. And I missed him too much to hate him the way I wanted to.” The romance was angstyyyy, slow burn-yyy and one that swept me off my feet. Raihn and Oraya are so so good together. The chemistry is off the charts. Like I was giggling, blushing, screaming and all that. The spice was HOT 🥵 He might be one of my new favorite characters. I loved the way he was written, he felt so real and had so much depth. His relationship with Oraya was everything. He is the main reason I kept reading the book. This author is great at conveying really strong emotions in her characters. I felt like I could feel his pain throughout. I also really loved Oraya. She’s stubborn and untrusting and pretty badass. She really comes into herself and her powers in this one and I enjoyed the character development. It also was a huge plus that this book had dual POVs. I loved reading from Raihn’s perspective. I just love him. 🥰 I honestly don’t know what happened to Mische, she was completely stripped of any and all personality traits. She just popped then and there to smile and nothing else. We can take her scenes out of this book and nothing would change. I was really looking forward to this audiobook, though I did try to read the text version, I have to say there is just something to be said about how emotive and expressive these voice actors are. They really brought alive the characters. From Oraya's stubbornness and complicated feelings of all that occurred after the trials, to Rhain's struggle to rule in a castle that holds the worst of his nightmarish memories, the actors brought it all alive.Vincent the king, who would kill my whole family in the name of power, who would slaughter an entire race, who would lie to me for nearly twenty years about my blood to protect his crown.
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