**THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**
Honestly, this book was so bad I’m going to keep this short and sweet. I stand by my previous review for book 4. This series should’ve either ended with book 4 or had Jaxon and Flint as the main characters ever since book 1.
The storyline from Grace’s point of view is absolutely obnoxious. She’s the weakest, most selfish heroine I’ve ever read for a YA series and now in this book Wolff goes back in time and shows how she cheats on Jaxon with his brother! How wonderful! As if Wolff can’t degrade her character anymore…and yet again slam Jaxon’s yet again. Ironically in the beginning of book 6 she has Grace apologizing to Jaxon, so she must’ve gotten some hate for it….
As for the other characters. Hudson is a completely unrealistic character. A goody two shoe who’s somehow supposed to be this tough vampire prince. Laughing out loud…Flint doesn’t nearly get as much time in the books as he should, and now he’s dating Jaxon who should’ve been the main character all along. Unfortunately Wolff likes to bash him throughout the series, makes you wonder why she bothered creating such a punching bag.
I won’t even bother with the ridiculous storyline. Nearly 600 pages of Grace and Hudson that was just blah blah blah. Completely irrelevant to the series. It’s like she got contracted for another book and had to BS an entire one just to get it to the publisher.
I will read book 6 to finish out the series but I have laughably low hopes for it.
★ wouldn’t recommend this series at all to be honest. ( )

Okay, so this was probably the book I was most curious for and most excited to read. Grace had completely forgotten everything that happened with Hudson in the Shadow Realm and I had only very vague pictures to go by from the scraps he'd shared with her, so yes, I wanted to know very badly what had happened. I was not disappointed. Hudson and Grace was better than Jackson and Grace by a lot. Smokey is her own kinds of adorable, the Shadow Realm is beautiful and interesting, and they got to be normal for a while while still keeping things exciting. ( )

I can't imagine writing a book is any easy task and so I try not to review too badly. I do love the story and Hudson has become one of my favorite characters of all my books and this has a lot of its own heart throbbing moments that has kept me reading this series. I do wish there was more seems like a lot of things were glossed over and so many things similar to other books or shows, example the whole "You're my true North" line, Mal says that to Alina in Shadow and Bone- Netflix, don't remember if it's also in the book but regardless it was like seriously, I mean yes cute and aww and heart melting but then instead of Hudson and Grace in my head I had Mal and Alina 🤦‍♀️. Anyway overall I love this book enough that I would reread it at another time and would recommend it but not enough for 5 stars, sorry. But hey 4 stars isn't bad 😁
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