pictvresque's reviews
315 reviews

Was putting of reading this book for a while now, and i both do and don’t regret it at the same time. I do regret because, damn, this book is great. But I don’t because I forgot how amazing it feels to read PD’s books for the first time, and it’s a feeling i got quite addicted to.

I love when couples make sense, when you can actually say why they belong together, and you definition can do it with Taylor and Easton. So thank you for satisfying the analysing part of my brain, as well as the emotional one.

Will be totally rereading several times later (especially THE scenes) but four stars because I couldn’t help but compare it to Devil’s Night or Falling away and, even though my heart did ache several times, I didn’t connect emotionally with characters, which is not a bad thing, because you can’t relate to every one of them, right?

I wanted to read the Ruthless Knight so this one for me was more of a necessity. Initially i wanted to give it only two stars but I added another one because of the small irony of the situation. I’ve been thinking of rereading the Bully by Penelope Douglas and now, having read the Cruel Prince (to be honest, the title of the book kinda feels like a betrayal to the Folk of the Air series - my absolute favourite, but it’s just a personal preference), i can say that in some way i did reread the Bully. Because this book is just 90% the same.
It’s not anyone’s fault I read the Bully first but similarities felt weird and almost completely deprived me from enjoying the book.

Started the whole series for this book and I was not disappointed.
1. The fat girl trope
Thank you. I can’t find the words to express how much I wanted an overweight female character in a NA, to show that they can be sexy too, they can be desired too. And it was everything I could ask for.
Also thanks for not ruining with her gaining the weight back in the end, because if she didn’t the whole trope would be ruined.
2. Cole Covington
I don’t know what with this series and similarities to other series’s. But Cole Covington really reminded me of Dean and Knight Cole (yes they even have the same first name-last names), but I still enjoyed his character. I don’t know what’s the deal with me and the least loved child trope but I always fall for those characters, and he was not the exception.
I also rather liked how, compared to the first book, we saw Liam not as a saint, but as a flawed person, who was also mentally sick, and different sides of his personality made the series much deeper.
3.
I still can’t decide if I’m disappointed or not with them sleeping together as Sawyer was really clear about not having sex until marriage, but I guess it’s better than them eloping just to have sex.

This book felt different from usual NA, so I don’t regret my time and, probably will be coming back to it later