As a 33 year old mother who loves to read fantasy romance it was beyond refreshing to finally be ble to see myself in the female protagonist. Just know it does ends on a cliffhanger so be ready to jump into book 2 (which is thankfully already out 😅), which is exactly what I’m about to go do! The pacing is perfect and I never found myself confused by how fast things moved or bored with how slow they moved. Pages upon pages of over explaining, over killing and repeating herself to the point where I mostly skimmed this book and still understood the plot perfectly. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I found myself not caring about her sister's death or any of the tragic background because it was just a giant info dump. We get to see her adventures on the rescue, her 2nd chance love, the fact that she has a regular sized body or possibly plus sized (we don't know what size or weight, just that she is larger than when she last saw her ex, which obviously).

As a mother, I would be sick every minute of the day, and I wish I got more of that from Em because it almost made it seem unrealistic. I had the IMMENSE pleasure of being one of the first beta readers to get my hands on this debut novel from Jess. i genuinely don’t have any complaints about this book making my rating much higher than i was expecting. I’ll most likely pick it back up again because I do enjoy the characters a lot, but for now I just can’t seem to get through it unfortunately.

I loved the friend group in this as well, I felt for every character and loved how complex their feelings and emotions are!Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Now, Emmeline and Rainier must work together to find the Beloved—to save the girl from the Folterrans and fulfill the prophecy of peace—while they both battle feelings of remorse and heartbreak, trying to ignore the heated desire and simmering attraction between them that never left.