I am a bit sad where this all went especially because the author did so many things the proper way that usually are just lazily being thrown together.
We don't just get a time skip training montage to get the mc up to speed nor are there some magic I-am-now-good-at-this-because-fate things going on, no, we really see and experience the painful and hard work she has to endure to actually have a fighting chance.
I really liked that.
BUT the ludicrously stupid "time to grow up" was just so out of place I can't even put it into words.
And, yea, they talk about how stupid it was and she makes him fight for forgiveness for it later yadda, yadada but at the end of the day, this is just not believable. Just look at how much wisdom and life experience a bright old person typically collects and condenses and now think about how much better they understand human nature and all the stupidity of youth and now lets again look at our OLD vampire friend here. Anything strange? no? ...
Onto the next thing, the crying. How the hell I am supposed to believe that she has had time to toughen up throughout this hard time without him if she is constantly in tears.
I am not of the opinion that tears are a sign of weakness or anything but if the mc can literally not see most of the time it's just too much.
So, after our character now finally has somewhat reconciled with her love interest, has learned to stand her ground in a fight and stopped crying for a minute she gets kidnapped without ever even having a chance to even try out her badass new fighting skills. To be rescued by the ominous, dark, brooding vampire. TWICE. That's where I dropped this one.

The romance itself was cute. Not shying away from showing the time and effort that goes into actually learning a skill was cool. But the rest was just all over the place and I havened even mentioned the incredibly two-dimensional ideas of good and evil as well as the incredibly flat evil just for the sake of evil adversary.
Here now ends my journey much sooner than I had hoped. ( )

4.5 ( )

I read this series because it was recommended to me since I like The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. I do not like it quite as much as The All Souls Trilogy but it is good nonetheless. I like the librarian aspect and the historical research part but I also think the romance and story line in general is quite well done. It is a series that reads quickly while also keeping you engaged in the plot and characters. ( )

This book wasn't as good as the first for me. The first 3/4's of the book is a re-hash almost, with very little beyond the first book. We see Gio and B trying to rebuild their relationship. There's angsting over the relationship, kidnapping, threatening, etc. It wasn't until the very end that we learned anything new in the search for her father and Leo. Still, the MC is a kick butt female (literally nowadays), and she's intelligent. The side characters are very likeable. Unfortunately, there's just very little build on to the universe Hunter created. A huge chunk of this book could have been trashed and still not taken away from the triology. Still worth the read if you enjoyed book 1, but I'm far less motivated to read book 3 now. ( )

I didn't think that I would like this book because it was a freebie from Amazon. But I was so wrong! It was so captivating. I could not put it down!! I am not on the 2nd in the series and again cannot put it down, and the price on Amazon is just right for a Kindle e-book!! ( )