Favorite book and movie!! Loved it!

“Something about the moment feels like daybreak. The first ray of sun after a long, dark night. The first shard of hope, illuminating two people who were on the edge of giving up.”

It pains me to say this, but Alex's yearning carried this book! I went in with high expectations, so it was really sad to find myself struggling to stay interested for much of it.

The story leaned more into their romance, their relationships with friends and family, as well as their healing, than it did into the mystery. Ophelia and Alex had to deal with everything that happened and figure out how to move forward.

If what you wanted after Nightshade was more romance and emotional character development, this will work for you. For me, the lack of mystery and suspense was disappointing. I was expecting a little more of the suspense and intrigue that made the first book so compelling.

That said, I still enjoyed it because I love Alex and Ophelia so much, and I'm so happy they finally got their happy ending!! I'll always have a soft spot for them, and I'm gonna miss them and this story so much!

I liked it, just not as much as I wanted to.

Greer and Beckett constantly choosing to stay silent instead of standing up for themselves became really frustrating after a while. They were always thinking about all the things they could say to their families, only to end up saying nothing. The amount of internal monologue was also excessive. It would sometimes pause an ongoing conversation for pages while a character went off into their thoughts. I did enjoy some of their banter, and I loved their conversations with their families at the end, but I found their reasoning way more complicated than it needed to be.