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onthesamepage's review
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
2.0
ARC provided by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Steam level: 🌶
There's definitely an interesting plot here, but it got lost in the writing and lack of explanation. I felt like I was missing a lot of context related to Jeremiah Gladstone and his role in this story, almost like some of it happened in other books in the series. If I'd known that this series needed to be read in chronological order, I would've definitely picked up the other two before reading this one. This isn't necessarily a flaw in the book, just different expectations I have as a reader when it comes to romance series, where chronological order is usually not critical to being able to follow the story.
I liked the parts related to Demerara and wish we could've seen more of that. However, I wasn't very invested in the main characters. Much of this has to do with dialog; I frequently lost the thread of what they were talking about. This seems to be an issue with the writing in general. We also get way too many scenes where Felton is trying to seduce/beg Celia back to his side while she tries to resist, and after the first few times I wasn't interested in seeing it play out anymore.
Steam level: 🌶
There's definitely an interesting plot here, but it got lost in the writing and lack of explanation. I felt like I was missing a lot of context related to Jeremiah Gladstone and his role in this story, almost like some of it happened in other books in the series. If I'd known that this series needed to be read in chronological order, I would've definitely picked up the other two before reading this one. This isn't necessarily a flaw in the book, just different expectations I have as a reader when it comes to romance series, where chronological order is usually not critical to being able to follow the story.
I liked the parts related to Demerara and wish we could've seen more of that. However, I wasn't very invested in the main characters. Much of this has to do with dialog; I frequently lost the thread of what they were talking about. This seems to be an issue with the writing in general. We also get way too many scenes where Felton is trying to seduce/beg Celia back to his side while she tries to resist, and after the first few times I wasn't interested in seeing it play out anymore.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Slavery
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