Respectfully this was not good from beginning to end. However, after 75% this hit dumpster fire levels I’ve never encountered before.

(Review originally posted on Goodreads in 2022)

I received an advanced digital copy from NetGalley an exchange for an honest.

I liked this book but didn’t love it. The general idea was captivating, women coming together to kill or harm men that wrong them, hell yeah! In execution I do think this had too many perspectives and didn’t completely land for me in the end. I would also say that in general, this wasn’t super thrilling for a book marketed as a thriller, I think a contemporary suspense could be a better genre fit.

Take my advice and don’t waste your time with this sequel. It really doesn’t expand on the original story, the fantasy elements are extremely lacking, and our main characters are husks of themselves.

In this book, we get Preston’s POV where we learn he has two personality traits: missing his dad and wanting to protect Effy from all harm — even though, checks notes she saved him in the first book. Because why in a book SO focused on misogyny would the MMC think the main character can take care of herself. —-except Effy has also lost all of her character development and becomes a shell of herself so maybe she did need saving. Except how can he really save her when neither of these characters are communicating the entire book. All of their main scenes together are them sleeping.

Halfway through randomly war breaks out, but Effy is just here reading this girls journal and popping sleep pills. I see absolutely no reason for the war to have escalated randomly in the middle of the book because it had almost no impact on any of the story and then was completely resolved in two pages at the end of the book.

Another semi main conflict in this book is the MMC thinking he can’t propose to the FMC because she doesn’t have a ring finger. Yes, seriously!

Overall, this sequel just felt like a waste of pages and in the end I can’t say there is any point to it.

My final gripe—FMC is blonde, but the individual on the cover is a brunette