leandrathetbrzero's reviews
357 reviews

The humor/tone got quite repetitive, and the poop jokes...I would like to leave those behind in 2025, please. 

Everything deserves a 4, except the random worry that Arabella has that her love interest might be planning to r*pe her in the last 25 pages of the book...like, what. 

I am so disappointed! The last 100-150 pages is where this narrative falls apart for me.

(1) The disappearance of the son concludes in such a lackluster way when considering how complex the lead up was.

(2) The use of infidelity as a catalyst infuriated me. And we never get closure or a fully fleshed out explanation for this affair's existence. I hate when likeable characters are turned to complete trash when we learn they would willingly participate in infidelity.

SPOILER:

And the fact that it was the older sister, someone depicted as the only shining light in this book...I just can't see her doing that when she is also the one to introduce and encourage the match in the first place...make it make sense.

If I were Dante, the reading of this book would be one of my circles of Hell. I suffered. And When the Moon Hatched might have convinced me to finally start rating DNFs. 🤣

Actual Rating: 0.25
DNF @ 40%

If you want my play by play thoughts, here they are but no promises that there aren’t spoilers…the plots pretty predictable though so 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

• The descriptions have no function beyond the author trying hard to sound lyrical and prove she knows what a simile is
• The gore is so overdone it begins to be comical. Characters’ deaths take full chapters and somehow they can still hold full conversations when they really should have died/passed out immediately 
• The mentions of poop, shit, shat, turds. Advice: do not make it a drinking game.
• The love interests are classic: man in need of a good therapist that is 1 1/2 feet taller than our petite perky-boobed protagonist 
• Female/male gives alpha male with a podcast energy …ch 15 “if whipping a female makes you feel like a strong BOY.” You have the word BOY in this male/female world? What?
• Raeve is a terrible assassin 🤣 no common sense or demonstration that she knows what she’s doing
• The language: “dae” you mean DAY? “Skin suit” you mean clothes? 
• One-folk show” and “slumber terror” and “full of dragon shit” 🙄 so you want them to speak like we do but make it sillier
• “Come forth to the light” 😑 What in the King Arthur? why are we weirdly old English randomly and speaking like they are from 2024 the rest of the time
• Him smelling her. I can’t 🤢
• Her sass and tough mouth/snark is not earned at all; the incompetence 
• The main character is a violent immature teen on an adult woman’s body
• “Wow these baby dragons and larger and stronger than I expected” and it turns out it’s the love interest 😑 “lifts me like a sack of grain” 😑 “he looks down upon me” while she is on his lap? “Stack of muscles that feel more like rocks” 😑 “he’s the biggest male I’ve seen, in more ways than one” she aims to kick him in the nuts and things “considering the size of my target, I shouldn’t miss” GOD SHUT UP.
• The number of times she threatens to kill the love interest is so numbing by the 100th time, especially bc all she does is moon over his body; and him “say my name” 🙄 and then he proceeds to not say her name but calls her moonbeam 🤢🤮
• Ew ew ew is this dragon ride the one horse trope?? 🤮 okay false alarm
• She speaks like a teenager and he speaks at times like he’s from a different time. yuck.
• Why does he pick up and toss her around so much 😒
• Sticking their tongues out at each other. Are they children?? I swear this is so YA it pains me
• Why doesn’t she ask him why he randomly gives her the nickname moonbeam. Ugh Seven Year Slip flashbacks
• All she does is look at his body. His MANHOOD. WHY DO WE HAVE THE WORD MANHOOD BUT USE “FEMALE” and “MALE”??
• The predictability of this narrative, with who Raeve is, her history with Kaan
• I’m suffering.
• I love how she calls herself cursed when she has been the luckiest mf I’ve ever seen
• If she says “tha-dump” one more time
•She may actually be the dumbest protagonist I’ve ever encountered. It’s exhausting to follow her POV
• I’m already tired of him trying to get her to remember who she is and who he is 🙄 reminds me of that Sarah macadams and tanning chatum movie that I never watched
• “Im not usually so bad at slaughtering” LOL says the worst assassin in existence 
• “She snorts soup through her nose laughing at such a random moment and “it feels good. I never know it could feel so good.” Dear god.
• “He doesn’t want X Y or Z. He wants something worse…me” 😑 and then he feeds her like a child…I mean, youngling 😒 What.

 The objectification of women in this book though...