Did not like. It gave me the heevie jeevies. Something was just off putting to me about this book.

I don’t usually enjoy writing reviews for books I don’t immensely enjoy- but this is the first time I’ve read a Nora Roberts book that I didn’t like.

*spoilers ahead*

HOW CREEPY IS LIAM. HELLO HE IS LITERALLY (in wolf form) IN BED, IN THE BATHROOM WATCHING HER NAKED AND LICKING HER.
This is some next level Twilight pervert bullshit.

Also he’s invading her dreams at night, but gaslighting her in the day? Seriously wtf? Liam is one of the worst male protagonists I’ve ever encountered- he’s a male chauvinist who has literally taken choice after choice away and then tries to mansplain why he’s done it.

I’m honestly a bit heartbroken that Nora created this kind of character and tagged this horrible book to the end of what was going to be a lovely series.

The only highlight was seeing the Donovan cousins towards the end of the book.

I love Nora Roberts, but this one dragged on. Her magical stories have come so far since this one, and it just felt like there wasn’t much to the plot. I also didn’t love how quickly and easily everything was resolved after the heroine stood up to the hero just once for like 5 min.

sooo… i liked the idea of the book and the world in it. i sympathized with fmc maybe a bit too much. but i really didn’t like mmc. he manipulated and gaslighted fmc for 90% of the book. at the end after he broke her heart with “break up” trope, his mommy went to fmc and asked her to come back to her son bc he was hurting.

Recommended.

Very atmospheric at first, but then Liam was introduced and I nearly stopped reading. His arrogance was positively infuriating!!

I’ve read this book so many times over the years, and it remains one of my favorites if only for the magical elements and Irish tales woven into it. Of the four Donovan books in the series, this is my second favorite because I live for broody, cranky magical males. Nora Roberts is one of my favorite storytellers, and rereading this was just what I needed at the moment!

again my mother forced me to read this one, and why would you even mention the cousins in this even if they werent actually cousins, just whyyyyy

I put off reading this book for a long time... Now I'm not sure why. I really enjoyed it. Liam is cousins with the rest of the Donovan's from the rest of the series. He's dark and brooding, while Rowan is sweet and innocent (at first, anyway). It's a fast read, and you do get to see the other characters from the first 3 books for a short period of time.