Elle ♡ [semi-hiatus]'s Reviews > Bound by Forever

~4.5 stars.

This was so good! I initially wasn't in the right mindset to read this when I started it a few weeks ago so I paused at 10% in, but when I picked it up again yesterday I quickly got sucked in and invested. The beginning is definitely a bit dark and depressing and Niamh goes on quite the emotional journey (as does Kiyo, honestly).

I love Niamh and Kiyo. Kiyo was mouth watering to imagine... Omg. Tall, built, half-Japanese shifter with a man bun? Yes, please. Niamh is the ultimate blonde fairy, (though she's brunette for most? of this book) a little lost and dabbling in darkness, but at the core the sweetest of all time. Kiyo's broody, protectiveness really balances them out well.

A good portion of the novel takes place in Japan which was really fun. I think if you'd been to Japan already it would be even cooler to have a visual for all the neighborhoods and landmarks they were mentioning.

The limitless magic of the fae is always fun to read about and I love shifters so this was PNR gold for me. The world building in general is just really well done and I'm curious to see how this will all be wrapped up in the final book. That being said there's a new big-bad in town (as if there weren't enough already) and it seemed like a very Kiyo-Niamh related problem, but it definitely wasn't wrapped up in this book. So I think we'll be seeing a lot more cross-over from the past couples in the final book, which is exciting. Also! Met the heroine, Echo, for the final book in the last chapter and that little glimpse has me very excited to get to know her. Still don't know anything really about Elijah (unless I missed something) though, the last fae-born.

Anyway, this was a great read. Ready for the next in 2021!