SOOOOO GOOD. THIS is how you do an enemies-to-lovers and THIS is how you do a slow-burn. This was so excellently done I loved all the characters I LOVED the world and the magic ugh I’m reading the sequel ASAP.

WOW. I’m speechless. I’m shook. Holy moly GUACAMOLE 🥑. Not gonna lie it took awhile for this book to pick up but when it did IT DID. Ugh if it weren’t for the pacing and plot and some characters that needed developing this would’ve been five stars but otherwise EXCELLENT GIMME TEN MORE OF THEM RIGHT NOW.

Absolutely not. Idk why but this book was very much marketed to me as two college roommates and best friends in an academic setting which was not AT ALL what this book was. The characters are not “morally grey” and “lovable” they are evil, and I did not like them at all. For me, it’s really hard to read about characters I don’t like and I pretty much hated all the characters in this book except for Sydney and dol. I wasn’t rooting for anyone and I didn’t care to see what happened because this wasn’t a friends to enemies thing, they were never friends in the first place. The author did not do a good job at all of setting them up and providing enough exposition to make the reader understand that they were friends so this literally read like a memoir/personal vendetta book for two psychopaths/serial killers which was not enjoyable to me. And there was no set up for them to want to be EOs in the first place, they just suddenly wanted to try to race to suicide without thinking about any of the repercussions? What? And merit city literally felt like a cardboard/ghost town, so devoid of life. I didn’t like addie larue but I thought I’d give schwab another chance, but this is starting to confirm for me that I’m not a fan of this authors works, particularly her characters.