This is of course just my opinion, and if you loved this book, I'm not trying to rain on your parade. That being said, I strongly disliked this book.

For me, this book took the most cliche things about vampire and werewolf fiction, and mixed it up with incomplete character development, miscommunication trope galore, and really boring world building.

Example of the latter; What do you mean in this world vampires are just another species? They are born from vampire mothers, drink blood from blood bags, file their teeth if they have to be around humans, and don't even have an unusually long lifespans? Or anything extraordinarily charming about them? They just live in little hives and try not to die from sunlight before getting old. Cool cool. And they are really really enemies with all werewolves, but it is not clear if there is any reason to it. In fAcT, In EuRoPE all the species live peacefully alongside each other?? Beautiful. It just seemed all so pointless, and on its own already reduced the impactfulness of the story.

I think that there are ways to pull off a good miscommunication plot, where it adds to the tension of the story, since the reader knows something that the characters do not. In this book however, I felt like physically cringing. Everything was a big misunderstanding. Everything resulted in a fight or a debate. No character could just come out and say what they know or how they feel. Everything had to be somehow handled through loops of misunderstandings, as if that was adding mystery to the plot. I'm sorry, but really not my trope and not my cup of romantasy.

While reading this book, my feelings were a roller coaster of the worst kind. My first instinct of the book (after a couple of chapters) was that the writing style was a little annoying and the book was going to be predictable and not quite for me. I was wavering around the halfway mark, where there were a handful of scenes that almost had me invested in the story. More interpersonal chemistry, more yearning, less awkward banter and forced miscommunication. And then at three quarters of the way in it completely lost me. I listened to the last bits out of pure spite, since I wanted to finish this to review it.

This book had me asking "why do I care" about a variety of characters and plot points. And I honestly don't have any answers.