TBR & Tangents by Rachel

This book is full of gothic vibes, enemies to lovers, and all the plots against the kingdom. I’d also recommend it if you love your characters to be all the shades of grey.

When I say that this book was the definition of a whirlwind, I mean it wholeheartedly. There’s so much back and forth that I felt like my emotions had whiplash. If this isn’t the entire definition of enemies to lovers then I’m not sure anything else could remotely get close to it as this did. Honestly it got to a point where the back and forth was almost too much. And I say that as someone who has this trope in her top 5. But the character development?? Was a balm to my poor heart. That absolutely got me for sure. At one point I wasn’t sure there was any way to come back from said damage. It was such a relief to see some incredible changes for both of them, and I ended up loving them both dearly.

I loved the family dynamic we got to see. This means both blood and found family (another one of my top tropes if you were curious) This also evolved over the course of the story which I really liked. Everything was constantly changing and absolutely kept me engaged the whole time. There was some spice but unfortunately it didn’t feel genuine. There was a lot of slow burn, but unfortunately in my opinion those scenes were skip-worthy.

The world building I felt was a slightly missed opportunity. It didn’t feel like I had a good grasp of the world as a whole, and it would have been nice to have more background or detail. The individual scene building was incredible though!! There was such gothic, fairytale vibes going on and I was a huge fan of it.

This was a good read as a whole. It wasn’t what I fully expecting with some bumps in the presentation but nonetheless still a read!

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