Arrows and Apologies (Monsters & Muses)

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ALSO i loveddddddd how he would so openly love her aaahh love when the hero worships the hoe like she hung the stars.

She wasn’t even really looking for a job, but having an in with the mayor of the island where her brother went missing seemed like a good idea. Cora get hit in the hid, gets unconscious and had blunt force trauma and the next chapter she doesn’t acknowledge being attack? I loved the tension and chemistry between the MCs, the story itself was engaging, and it was really spicy but without overpowering the whole book. if we were given more to work with and understand, this might have made more sense and felt justified for his character.

Which is really disappointing, because I would have really would have enjoyed the book if I didn’t get lost as much. Alastair was much more then I was expecting from the glimpses we got in the previous book about his brother.

Now, despite her disdain for the dirty politician, she’s entwined their lives so tight that escaping seems unlikely. They left the hollow, dried-out husk, and no one ever bothered to teach him how to get that goodness back. I could have loved it, given how much I loved Alastair and his beautiful, dirty mouth and how much he revered Cora.

it would make sense if we were given more of a resigned (but still present love) than what we got from her which was nothing until the end. This man was unhinged for this woman, there would be moments of him just thinking odd things such as: “𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘣 𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. In saying that, my job is to see if there is any connection throughout the writing to the specified ancient mythology at all. i understand having it written in the sense that the reader experiences some of what the mc feels but it’s to the point that i didn’t even know if he was alive until the actual end. every time something happened to cora i swear it would be brushed off or forgotten, like nothing even happened.

there was a plot twist wannabe at the end, but how can there be a plot twist when there’s no plot at all? This is teased a little through out the book and before we fully knew everything it was already taking away from the feelings Alastair had/was growing for Cora in my opinion. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.Not to mention the plot was EXTREMELY predictable and the inclusion of Cora’s brother Lucien was SO unnecessary. We met Alistair Wolfe in the previous book, Oaths and Omissions (his brother Jonas’s book) so I was so hyped to read his book and see what kind of trouble he gets into.