Can't believe this book is the last. That this is it. I'm not ready to let go of this world yet
* Beyond tMy most anticipated book of 2021, delivered.
Can't believe this book is the last. That this is it. I'm not ready to let go of this world yet
* Beyond thrilled to be reviewing an early copy of this book! Many thanks to the author Olivia Wildenstein for providing me an ARC of this in exchange for my honest review. *
✨MY REVIEW for Starlight by Olivia Wildenstein:✨
“Whatever happens in there, Naya, it won’t change how I feel about you.” “How do you feel about me?” “Like I’ve been searching for you my entire life.” —Starlight, Olivia Wildenstein
Wow, this book had me on a such rollercoaster ride. I was beyond happy, swooning for our Adam and Naya, and then I was heartbroken, reeling, crying in sad and then happy up to the very last page. UGH!! SO FREAKING GOOD!!!
— I love Naya, she's everything to me. Adam... he's so intense and so like our hero Jarod.
— Both of our main characters are written so well, they may be not the Jarod and Leigh we know but their souls are still the same Jarod and Leigh that we fell in love with. And they are also so them in so many ways that I'm so blown away with how Wildenstein managed to pull this. That was outstanding!
— Asher... oh my god. What. a DILF.
— THE LOVEABLE SIDE CHARACTERS! Oh. My. God. Adam's friends: Noah, Galina, Boone and Levi all deserve their own books and I will die on this hill!!! Just felt like pointing this out because I love them so freaking much!!! Even Emmy and especially Grayson! Badly wish these characters have their own book because I will definitely buy and read them all!! And I just want more Angels of Elysium story, yall I dont want to say bye to this series yet. I can't.
ANYWAYS, this book was excellent! I'm incredibly satisfied and happy with how this ended.
With all that said, this book was such a spectacular and perfect ending to an already perfect series by Olivia Wildenstein. This series has got such a great world building it's unique and original that I'm sad to see it end just here. I felt like there was so much more it can give, has such enormous potential and capable of telling more stories but I understand the author putting the pen down here. I just love the structure of the Angels hierarchy and the challenge of getting to become a fully-fledged Angel here and how each do their jobs. I would live in this world if I could. This was so very well done and very well thought-out unlike from the other stories I've come across, so massive kudos to the author for writing such compelling world-building with a great narrative to boot.
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 I could not recommend this book series enough for yall IT'S SO, SO GOOD. 5 stars rating for this book, as it deserves....more
This book kept me up all night til morning then left me a sobbing, wailing mess AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT
Man, I should have known... why did my dThis book kept me up all night til morning then left me a sobbing, wailing mess AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT
Man, I should have known... why did my dumbass expected a HEA? Jesus. Now I'm crying like so many fat tears right now.
Oh, where to start ... I love this book SO MUCH! Jarod and Leigh's love story was beautiful (God, now here I am crying again! guess I'll just have to type this review in tears then, jesus) I loved every single bit of their time together. Knowing this book is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, the sense of their impending fate made me relish every single time they were here. From start to finish, this book has kept my interest tethered, the worldbuilding was done so well, the characters well-written and the PAIN... AHHHH! Damn, I love it all! I'm so sooo glad I stumbled onto this title and read it. I ALWAYS always avoid any books that doesn't have HEA but for this one I didnt, maybe it's the foolish hope that it might not go full on Romeo and Juliet but maybe it's because I wanted to challenge my reading slump so bad and it turns out, I'm right. This book did cure me off my slump (as i am already READY to download and read the next book!) and KNOW MORE, HOPING that maybe Jarod and Leigh got their happy ever after. Even if they did not, I still think Asher is an interesting character even if he annoyed me in this book. I believe the next one, his book, will redeem him in my eyes.
I love this book so much! I 100% recommended this if you like a bit of angst in your reading. Jarod and Leigh were written so tastefully in this retelling. No naivety and immaturity like tge way Romeo and Juliet have. Jarod and Leigh are just, BUILT DIFFERENT.
oh god... i have no words... I went into this book thinking I'd be reading a quick, light fluffy with slight angst THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL ROMCOM FIX
oh god... i have no words... I went into this book thinking I'd be reading a quick, light fluffy with slight angst to fix me up, WHAT I DIDN'T EXPECT WAS TO BE ATTACKED BY PAIN AND ANGSTINESS OF THE DRAMA!?
I knew shit was about to go down at around 40% — our pair Graham and Soraya were so perfectly happy and seems to have found their footing SO EARLY in on the book. Y'all, lemme tell you, when I realized this, that's when I started SWEATING and my heart STARTED POUNDING! then the plot twist happened at around 50% and I the sweating and anxiety turned full out meltdown! I was like, "WHAT THE FUCK?! HOLY SHIT" No kidding you, I literally yelled that out SO LOUD ...more
(ARC courtesy by NETGALLEY and 8th Circle Press in exchange for honest review!)
A certain beloved interfering lord is back with his shenanigans!
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A certain beloved interfering lord is back with his shenanigans!
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Lord Arthur Godwick, brother of Lia and son of Mona finally gets his own book in this steamy and romantic installment of The Godwicks series by Tiffany Reisz!
... After finding himself, yet again, cleaning up his little brother Charlie's latest mess, Lord Arthur Godwick is willing to sacrifice anything in order to save their family's most prized and very much stolen, painting that his brother sold to a hotel owner without the family's knowledge. Lady Regan Ferry, the mysterious owner of the hotel "The Pearl" refuses to accept money as payment. A lord who's willing to do anything to take back a stolen painting - an agreement was made. Ten nights of debauchery for a debt to pay.
This book is one of my most-anticipated books of 2020! And just like The Red and The Rose, this book proved just how I very much adore this art-connoisseur and ahem, indecent family.
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While, the previous books were magical and steamy with it's transcendental sex scenes that will blow your mind, it made me appreciate Reisz's crafty and tastefully talent in writing erotica that made me love this series so much. However, this book was lacking something that the predecessors has. The chemistry between Arthur and Regan, our hero and heroine. Yikes!
It was a struggle for me to connect with Regan in the beginning. She came off cold and mean (and not in a cute enemies to lovers way!) Chemistry and the likeableness of the character are a huge factor for me, so to see Regan here not tick any of my boxes were a, sigh, a disappointment. However, she did redeemed herself later on when the author reveals the how and the why she is the way she was. I understood. That she's a complex character protecting herself and anyone - from the inevitable heartbreak she will cause, that she has gone through a lot, a woman in her own gilded cage that needed to be set free - and she did so, by herself!
Now, Lord Arthur... there are no words to explain how much I love and adore him! You can say he's the only proper Godwick that didn't indulge in the Godwick ways how, untrue that was, lol/ The Lord Malcolm genes definitely didn't skipped him! I have no complaints with his characterization! He's freaking perfect!!!
THE APPEAL OF ARTHUR/REGAN here is the domme/sub and may/december relationship factor. Arthur is 21 year-old aristocrat and Regan is a 30 year-old widow. Their chemistry maybe wasn't instant but it'll develop as the book continues. This book is very heavy on romance.
To wrap this up, this book isn't as good as the previous two in terms of the erotica department. Can say it's an equivalent of vanilla compared to its predecessors. It mainly focuses on romance and I can say that this is mainly a Regan-centric book, in my opinion.
****** OVERALL BOOK RATING: 3.75 stars Trigger and Content warnings: Parental death, cancer trope, self-volunteered sterilization, cheating though not with the main couple and also with the exception of: Regan's nightmare, second-cousin incest STEAM: HIGH ANGST: LOW ROMANCE: HIGH
Oh lord, it was hard getting into this book for a while because it was a bit repetitivPoppy World Domination
Queen. All I can say is, she IS the Queen!
Oh lord, it was hard getting into this book for a while because it was a bit repetitive. But the plot picks up at around 10% left of the book. 10% made up for what it was lacking in the entirety of the book. This was almost a 3 star rating for me for those reasons but I loved Poppy and what she became at the end of this book.
The end promises an exciting next book. Hopefully it wont be as boring as half of this installment was....more