By the gods was this good! I already enjoyed the first book of the trilogy and fell in love but this time I think I met my soul mates... HOLY SHIT! Callum and Everly have my heart. I don't understand how one can't feel this fucking connection they have, I mean... He waited for 2000 years... 2000 YEARS is that not enough of a sign for you!?!?!? It's extremely spicy and I did enjoy the switch moments in between. The story line was as good as the first book, I can't complain. This has my heart aswell♡

okay. i’ll try to make it as neutral and short as possible, but honestly, i’m so glad it’s over. it started so good and i was hoping i would like it more than the second book. but surprise, no. without all the unnecessary spice and same story scenes we already had in the first two books, the book would’ve been 150, maximum. reading the same story over and over again, with more creatures coming up is.. annoying. lucifer? yes. i understand. the hell? yes. it’s totally okay. but fae? there wasn’t a single hint of this.. species. i’m simply disappointed, and i’m so glad the series is over now.

And here we are… its the end of the endings… The Soul trilogy is over… Seriously There are so many unanswered questions tho… Who the hell are fae actually and how many are there? Why didn’t we get to see more Cats? When did Callum develop a breeding kink? Is anyone living in Hell now? Why didn’t we get to see more of leon? And why did the ending feel so rushed? With Everly being the only one avtually going in fully prepared and getting trained… it kind of felt off how it ended. The book was dilly dallying a lot where i would have hoped for simply.. 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 if you know what i mean. But damn i love these books… seriously… I need special editions left and right!

Ich will und kann gar nicht viel sagen. Die ersten zwei Teile fand ich unterhaltsam – vor allem, da die Charaktere spannend waren. Callum und Everly allerdings sind in meinen Augen einfach nur langweilig gewesen und ihre Entwicklung unrealistisch. Ich hab die Verbindung einfach nicht gespürt und das Buch hat sich gezogen wie so ein Kaugummi, der nach nichts mehr schmeckt als ekliger Spucke.

I should start with two things: I have been looking forward to this book *immensely* while still having only moderate expectations. How does that even work? I love the previous two books, while it annoyed me, that we always returned to the same storyline. The only reason this still works for me is that I have severe dementia when it comes to anything media – I can and read books multiple times and still forget everything that was in them. In this case, that works in my favour, because it was like reading a completely new story with vaguely familiar faces popping up every once in a while, for me – while I do see that people who remember more than I do, probably won’t have that much fun with these books. The other part of my hesitation lay in my slight disliking I had taken to Everly in the previous two books. This was dismantled so quickly, it almost gave me whiplash, let me tell you. I love Everly. Head to toe, insecurities to bad-ass dominating bitch. She’s a baddie that needed to grow into her role and did so fascinatingly fast. Who I did love even more was Callum though. His devotion from the beginning took me totally by surprise, his ease while switching from dominant to submissive, damn, that was straight (uh, bad choice of words here, babe) up hot. I can’t even pretend it wasn’t and I won’t. I expected a super duper dominant dude and was pleasantly surprised that the most powerful MC we find in this series was also the one most in tune with switching. It was a bit “insta”-all, but while that usually bothers me a lot, it somehow did not here. Maybe I simply enjoyed the characters too much to care about that, but it wasn’t something that annoyed me. There were bits and pieces that even made the whole shebang more enjoyable to me (Winona, Darragh, …) and some that grew a bit tiresome, but I am a sucker for a small stages in books which we had for an extended period here due to them being in the house and on their own (I love this, because I can focus on the development between the characters only and it always feels so cozy and I just crave it, I’m a sap for these passages). The one thing I would have wished for would be more interaction with Callum’s old comrades. Oh, I lied. And the one thing I would like to erase from this book was foreshadowed so blatantly obvious that it annoyed me from the first indication so much, I wasn’t able to focus on all the stuff I did like anymore. I just wanted it to be over and that is such a damn shame, because I really, really loved 80% percent of the book and if I were to only rate them, I’d give this thing the 5 stars quicker than Callum sinks to his knees, but this way it really took the fun out of the final part for me and that does affect my rating. It all comes down to personal preferences, for me it was a trope that usually drops a book to a 1 star rating, so I’m sure tons of people will enjoy what I found horribly misplaced here. But also a few probably will agree with me and both is fine. I adore the way Harley Laroux effortlessly draws me in these fantastically horrifying worlds and I will read anything else they publish for sure.

Oh my god did I struggle reading this book. At first, when I started, I thought it had the potential to be the best (read, least awful) book in the trilogy. I liked Everly as a protagonist. However, that initial interest quickly disappeared because this book seemed to drag on forever... Cut out all the smut and it would be less than a 100 pages. And I can hear you thinking, why would you read a smut book if you want to cut out all the smut. Every time the story seemed to go somewhere, there was a new development that seemed interesting, they would interrupt it with more smut. The stakes felt soooooo low at all times. Oh yeah, gotta kill this God to save the world, but we can also try out 60 different styles of BDSM, where's the rush... Every chapter that had potential for character development, oh wait, more smut. Any action or tension.. You got it. More smut. I started reading different books because I was so damn bored. I just couldn't stay committed to this atrocity of a book for more than half an hour. And I am someone who binges a book in one sitting, no matter how much I dislike it. The fact that it took me over a week to finish a book of this length is very telling. Long story short, if you like kinky smut, look no further, but if you want anything resembling urgency or tension with your plot, please be smarter than me and find something else to read. Harley writes the same story seen from different perspectives in each book, but that also means that 80% of the book will cover events you already know happened in some shape or form. If the remaining previously undiscovered plot is constantly interrupted, it becomes real hard to stay interested. Another reason I didn't enjoy this book was Callum... he's already a simp for this girl before she was ever even born. There is absolutely no development in their relationship. He pretty much throws himself at her feet to worship her as soon as they meet. There's no enemies to lovers romance, or anything to lovers really. I like the gradual development. This insta-love was just yuck. It's hard to take Callum seriously as a big bad archdemon when he spends 90% of the book just simping after Everly. Like please, can you at least try to not look so easy? By the last 15% does the book finally get interesting when the author remembers this story needs an ending, but by that time I was so mentally checked out I ended up skimming the remaining pages. Bonus points for the sentence where she says his dick is so big she can feel a bulge in her abdomen.. I had a good laugh over that. Most fun I had in the entire book because of sheer ridiculousness. I had more fun writing this rant review than I had reading the actual book.