Thank you to Emily and her team for the eARC - so, so appreciate the opportunity to read and review the book ahead of the release! This is my first EB book and I will certainly pick up some of her other ones - I'm particularly keen to pick up Wings So Wicked as I've heard great things about it :)

I'll start by saying that this to me is a 3 ⭐ book. For me, this means it was very middle of the road, with elements I enjoyed and elements I didn't particularly care for.

If you're looking for a quick romantasy to palate cleanse in between other books, this might just do the trick for you! If you're getting started in the world of romantasy - this is also a good choice! It features a very simple magic system, aka no long world building, with a shadow daddy - which we all know and love!

The pacing is great for a 300-ish page book with no particularly dull moments, and a good mix of both action and romance/softer moments. Both our main characters, Sinner and Athena, have a good amount of character development too, so you see them grow out of their shells and become more well rounded people. There's also a nice overarching theme of found family, and that actually drives a lot of the story.

For the parts I wasn't such a big fan of, there are a few but I think it mostly comes down to two things:

1. At 300 pages long, while I appreciated the amount of action packed in there, the story just didn't have the depth I enjoy most. The book centers itself around Athena's pain of losing her family, but I wish there had been a bigger plot emphasis on it. What exactly happened, and how? Her sister Katherine blames her for their deaths but why? There needed to be a stronger connection to that background story, and Katherine's experience. Athena then overcoming that pain, and using it to fight back and take control of her power, would have felt a lot more cathartic if all that had been better explained.

2. The concept was not innovative enough for me. The magic system was not clear - the types of power available were revealed too late in the story. For most of the time, I didn't know what it actually meant to be a mystic because no one, other than Sinner those couple of times, used their powers ever. And no one mentioned it either - it could have been explained to Athena, if the plot didn't allow for a visual demonstration (since they were in an underground cave and under strict surveillance, and all that). So I felt very disconnected from it all, and the stakes didn't feel very high because the world felt too small.

Also, this feels petty to mention, but I don't understand the title. I might have missed something there but I couldn't tell you how "Beg The Night" represents the story.

Overall, though, this was an enjoyable read - took me 3 days but could have easily been a single day, had I not had other life things happening. Thanks once again to Emily and her team for the eARC!