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Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole

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bvippolito's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Firstly, I love this series. Secondly, I think Diem needs to learn to STOP AND THINK! Our loveable highly empathetic FMC gets some wild upgrades and the stakes get very high. There is a lot more world building and exploring. We meet some cool new characters and visit some annoying returning characters.

I will say though it was overall an enjoyable read, there is some very poor decision making in this book and it makes you want to yell at the pages. Lets say Diem is very reactive and not very reflective and it gets very very frustrating

because she self sabotages SO MUCH and puts everyone she loves in even more unnecessary danger. Not to mention Luther keeping completely unnecessary secrets for way longer than necessary

Speaking to the romance part of this romantasy, this puts the slow in slow burn.

It is nice seeing Luther and Diem together but damn we literally have to wait until the very end for some proper 🌶️🔥 action

Finally in true Penn Cole fashion, the ending is hot drama! I can’t believe Heat is being delayed because I NEED IT NOW!!

owlvid_reader's review against another edition

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slow-paced

4.75

punkmar's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lia_madison's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

alliemccarthy16's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

duckylovesbooks's review

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slow-paced

3.0

This book dragged. Enjoyed the overall story but it was repetitive to read the same moral dilemmas over and over again. And it was obvious why the MMC was pushing the FMC away in the first half (third?) of the book and the resolution took too long to get to. I’m all about the slow burn but this was too long.