Eh.... Keine Ahnung was ich sagen soll...😅 Das Ende war ja mal nen beschissener Cliffhanger überhaupt 🥺 Das geht ja mal gar nicht an so einer Stelle aufzuhören!🥲 Die Story war ganz gut, ich mag Kai echt, er ist lustig xD Ich muss aber gestehen, das ich mich dran gewöhnen musste erst, an all das "Reader x Love interest" kinda thing. 😅 Aber! Zum Ende hin fand ich es ganz gut, trotzdem ungewohnt. Ich bin echt gespannt wie es weiter geht im Oktober. Kann es kaum abwarten🫣

Yes, I got roped in by the reader being the love interest and the narrator being Teddy Hamilton. His narration was great, obviously, but that actually makes my overall verdict worse. I'm immensely disappointed - on multiple levels. The blurb for the audio and written books are vastly different and I highly recommend people read both, as I would consider the blurb for the audio alone as purposefully misleading. It doesn't even mention Callie, whose story takes up just as much space as Cade's.

This was two seemingly separate stories wrapped into one, and they only really merged at the end, leading into book two. I see how this can be a valid choice in a duet series: book one building up tension/suspense and in book two it explodes... but that's not how this story goes. Both ideas were good in general, but I would have preferred them as genuinely separate stories. Callisto's story so far is great, I loved her interactions with Alabaster, but expecting the main love story to be between Cade and the reader, it felt odd that more care went into building Callisto's relationships than Cade's. Breaking the fourth wall with Cade was such a good idea, and making the reader the love interest is a bold move - a bookboyfriend for myself? Yes please. Unfortunately I did not like how it's done. We hardly know the MC when he shows the first signs of awareness (that's okay, and I get that he cannot speak to the reader, it's truly better that way) but we haven't had a chance to get to know him much and suddenly there's spice, completely out of the blue?? It made absolutely no sense. I know readers as a group tend to objectify bookboyfriends on a regular basis, and this actually felt like it makes the reader an object, and I -as the reader- was uncomfortable. If it's meant to raise awareness about that issue, fine... but considering its marketing I don't think that's what this book's intention was. I don't think I'll be continuing the series.