Actual rating: ★★★

Edit:
The more I think about it, the more I'm disappointed. The first book was amazing. Not plot wise, but I loved their relationship. Until it got sexual.

Original review:

“I will never give you up, I will suffer the ritual, gladly. Let it rip me apart and put me back together again. I will rob my people of their magic and fight the galla. I will not renounce my wife.

Don't leave me, Ildiko. The burden is only bearable because you're here."

When they weren't banging and being corny/horny I liked them. Although I did feel icky about the part where Ildiko refuses to have sex with Brishen because she felt like he was (subconsciously, hopelessly because a human can't have a child with Kai) trying to get her pregnant. Brishen then gets mad at her because she “accused him of using her as a breeding mare” or something like that. With that being said, I preferred it in the first book, when they weren't madly in love with each other. When they were just platonically fond of each other, playfully insulting and teasing each other, not banging every two chapters.

Also, while we're on the topic of banging, I don't quite understand. Does Brishen find Ildiko unattractive, but is still sexually attracted to her? Leave it to the ace person to rack their brain about sexual attraction