Thank you NetGalley and publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this story I really enjoy this fantasy world! I love the idea of a world finally knowing peace and seeing how the characters interact with this concept. Emory has always wanted to be a solider while Kat got drafted in. Even so they both deal with the same anxieties about what their lives can be. Their relationship was so strong and developed. I always love a book that throws us right into the story and we as readers get to figure the lore as we go. The whole decade had relationships with each other prior to what we know as a reader so going through the book you were always learning something new. Just like Emory and Kat, the reader has no clue about their feelings and seeing them finally realizing what they want. Overall the story was lovely and I thought the characters were just so developed it felt like I could have had a whole series of them.

Thank you to NetGalley and Publishers for giving me the opportunity to listen this book. Tris and Rafe are “sworn enemies” who have to go to a work retreat together. They discover they are put in the same room and chaos erupts. Overall I thought this was a fun romance read. I tend to hate an enemies to lovers in a contemporary setting because all I’m thinking is “what did this guy do to you? Did he kill someone???” This book though really does put the fun back in it. The author knows how crazy that is and she really does dive deep into the comedic aspect of their relationship. I love how that even though it was a romance it still talked about things that do happen in workplace settings to women and POC. It gives you a better insight to the company and what Tris has went through for the past 5 years. She was a complex and fun character who had struggled. The audiobook did really well making this feel like a stream of consciousness. I felt like I was in her brain and actively see how she thinks and reacts.