Rose in Chains: A sizzling enemies to lovers romantasy from the USA Today bestselling author

Before I get into that review, I have to say that this book has an epilogue that was just whoa and helped to up my star rating! This story is based on a fanfic and is still clearly Dramione coded. This is its strength, but also its weakness. I've not read the source material, but I assume this worked very well as a fanfic. For me though, it did not work well as a story of its own.

I have to say though, that the world is completely new and unique and has some very interesting aspects. However, I have the feeling that the characters are stuck in a weird place between (not) being the characters they are based on, nor fully developed characters of their own. Mostly, during the book I've waited for Briony to develop an agenda of her own, or develop... anything. Rage, strength, something to make me root for her. Instead it's a neverending repetition of spicy fantasies mixed with a lot of abuse (and with magic mind s*x). There is a lot of action though toward to end, and as much as I was longing for it, I also was confused. And then bam! - this epilogue. I had wished for something like this to come sooner, and I don't think it's good to have to suffer through abuse and stuff for this long before there is finally a ray of hope. 3,5/5 stars but I might give book 2 a chance. Thank you @netgalley and @harpercollinsuk for the eARC! #RoseInChains #Netgalley #Bookstagram