noellelovesbooks's reviews
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 First thoughts...holy shit that was amazing.

Onyx Storm is set a the same, or possibly even faster, pace as Fourth Wing. So those of you who didn't appreciate pace and size of Iron Flame should easily get through this book fast and happily. It did not feel like it was 779 pages [I read the Kindle version...I guess the hardcover is 544]

I was so excited because there were quite a few questions/theories that myself and others had that were definitely answered/confirmed in this third book which was so exciting...and made me feel less like a freak for how heavily annotated and marked up my copies of FW and IF are 😅

Since I'm impatient I definitely bought the Kindle version so I could start at the midnight release and read in any spare second I had...and only really marked a few quotes I liked...definitely not a deep dive read for the first read.

My plan is to now go back and reread FW and IF and see how many things I foresaw coming or what theories of mine came true...and then once I've gone through both of them again...I'll do a deep dive into a physical copy of Onyx Storm so I can annotate and mark it up as well ^^ 

This was a fun read...ngl I do wish I got a little more story...though this is a series where I'm guessing every features a different couple...I guess I'm used to these kinds of series having books that feel a little more wrapped up than this one felt...idk how to explain. 

Overall, I love this story, though I wish I gotten to know both characters even more. It was really refreshing too having essentially a mafia romance but with POC characters 🥰 Looking forward to picking up the other books in the series. ^^

Having now sobbed my way through books 3 and 4...I just don't even know if I can express how amazing this series was. I mean each book added such depth and connection...I truly felt like I was right there at Keera's side facing all her demons with her and feeling each loss she took.

I genuinely look forward to diving into this series many more times so feel the love, the joy, the sadness, the grief...just feel everything again 🥰

If, in the future, Melissa were to drop a cozy fantasy set in the future of this world...I would be thrilled lol after going through so many heightened emotions throughout these 4 books...it would be nice to just get a light novel full of the joy and happiness of the people enjoying the freedom they fought so hard to win. 🥹 

This is so beautifully drawn. I'm embarrassed so say I haven't watched the movie yet. Though I have seen, and adore, Song of the Sea. There's just something so magical and beautiful about the way the artist creates the characters and scenery 🥰

This book has a lot of darker content [pulled from the authors website]: 

This book contains graphic violence and sexual content. It also contains situations which may be triggering to some readers, such as: dub/non con, breathplay/choking, autassassinophilia, kidnapping, profanity, gunplay, and somnophilia.

This was one of those books that had an intriguing video pop up on my FYP and I decided to take the dive. From the start I really didn't feel an emotional connection to Emily or Ruarc...though we do get dual POV, which gives us their inner thoughts...I just feel like they didn't get emotionally as deep as I would have liked. 

Even by the end I wasn't feeling like either character really had any deep or meaningful emotions, though they both said they did. Maybe if certain areas of the book had been drawn out more I would have felt more connected and like they were connected? I don't know.

Overall, though I didn't feel as connected as I would have liked...I did enjoy the story and look forward to reading more from the author. 

OMG start to finish this book had me on an emotional rollercoaster 😭 and things were revealed that had me reeling...

Originally I was going to stretch out my read of book 3 to last until I got my copy of book 4 in the mail...but I'm kind of glad I didn't. This book was so deep, amazing, and emotional that I legit sobbed reading most of it. By the time I got to the end I felt somewhat emotionally numb 😅 honestly the bonus chapter was such a smart idea because it helped me start feeling again. 🥹

 This was a fun and quick read. I'm definitely not an insta-romance girlie but this one didn't bother me too much lol

The connection felt real and them moving so fast did make perfect sense. Also I can't judge, after only 3 months of dating my husband and I started living together, engaged and married just over 2 years after meeting...and 16 year's later we're still going strong ^^

I did get the ick from some of the verbiage our leading man used before and during sexy time 😅 

 This was such a fun read! Ngl there was a lot of instant emotional shifts that didn't always feel believable but I loved the idea of these two too much to care. 🥰 

I feel like this should have been a full fleshed out novel rather than a novella...

With it's short length...I hated Jack the entire time and didn't see any inkling that he had any redeeming qualities. Also, imo, there was ZERO chemistry between Jack and Summer...and it made no sense for an HFN let alone a HEA. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Maybe it's just the demi in me but...neither of these characters made me want to root for them or care about them...and they didn't show me any level of care for each other that gave me the chemistry/emotional connection for this pairing to make sense. 

 A cute holiday novella that is easy to speed through 💜