A review by xxflowerbabyreads
Court of Claws by Briar Boleyn

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Thank you so much to Netgalley, Starwater Press, and Briar Boelyn for this ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.
Tropes: enemies to lovers, found family, slow burn, touch her and you die, spicy fantasy. 
Book two starts off sort of slow placed like book one and then it slowly picks up speed and from there it’s fast paced. I absolutely loved the banter between Morgan and Draven. Morgan’s sarcasm never failed to make me laugh. I LOVED learning more about both Draven’s and Morgans heritages, Morgan’s just absolutely blew my mind, all of my theories were promptly thrown out the window. I spent the whole book rooting for Draven whom I fell in love with in pretty early on in book one. At times I really felt like Morgan was fighting him a little too hard on everything and her defiance almost started to annoy me, but at the same time Draven has always been mysterious and secretive so I just had to keep reminding myself her perspective of him was different and her experiences were very different than mine. I just felt like you could tell how much he feels for her through all of his actions and my heart was breaking for the man. When the spice finally hit I wasn’t expecting dravin to have such a dirty mouth, HOT DAMN. Once again I didn’t see all of the plot twists that came my way and I really didn’t expect the cliffhanger at the end. I can’t wait to start the third book!!