4.06 AVERAGE

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5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Across The Divide - Stacey Marie Brown 

Collector Series Book 3

Narrated By: Amy Landon  & Zach Villa
Narrator Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Amy did a perfect job narrating Zoey.  Her pacing and tone were perfect also. She brought this book to life.  Zach also did a perfect job also as Ryker. He also had perfection and pacing as he brought this book to life. 

My Review;
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 351
Tropes:

     ❤️ Enemies to lovers
     🥊 Viking vs. street fighter
     🤣 Funny narcoleptic sidekick
     🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Found family
     💞 Forbidden love
     🤫 Secrets, on the run
     🎖️ Brooding hero


This book picks up where The Barrier Between left off.  Zoey and Sprig find themselves back at the DMG in Seattle. Both are being held as patients and are studied, analyzed and drugged. 

Zoey quickly learns in order to have any chance of escape she has to play their game and convince them she once again fully believes in their project and is once again willing to do their bidding. She discovers that Sprig has also been recaptured as has Croygen. 

Amara tries to redeem herself by helping Ryker escape his Demon father.  Ryker escapes from her soon after and basically volunteers himself to the DMG to try and rescue Zoey. Trouble is his Demon father has placed an oath on him that he must end Zoey. 

This book also ends on a huge cliffhanger that will leave you unable to breath!  Thank goodness the final book in this series is already published. I’m off to start From Burning Ashes now!

I highly recommend this book and any book this author writes!

#RomanticSuspense #enemiestofriends  #fantasy #paranormal #suspense #thriller #staceymariebrown #cityinembers #collectorseries #thebarrierbetween #enemiestolovers #acrossthedivide 
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

actual rating: 3.5/5⭐️

adagenfield's review

4.75
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

I 2024 I don’t waste time on reading books I don’t like. I’m so disappointed with 3rd book in the series because I rated 1st with 5 ⭐️ and 2nd with 4 ⭐️. Honestly the book wasn’t bad I just got immensely bored. Like 45% in they’re still in the same place. Besides there’s weird dynamics starting to happen between FMC and side character and I don’t now what to think of it. I know it’s popular with dystopian books but I don’t like whole laboratory, testing, sort of prison etc trope as well. I’m still going to try with different series of this author though, because I still think her writing is good.

This series is so damn good, I can't get enough

I get why this book was the way it was but it felt like it dragged

This book is a good almost 60% of Ryker and Zoey being separated. I feel like it's meant to help clear our heads as much as Zoey's.

They're both being held captive in very different places but the torture they each deal with is just as bad for each other considering their own backgrounds.

This one kept me on the edge of anxiety! Trying to see how it would play out and waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I KNEW DMG was up to something and I'm glad they did what they did... a little. I'm hoping in the end it plays out well but I have one more book to go through to see how this all ends.

Also... Sprig... still love him!

3.5⭐️