I had such a good time reading this book! Full of banter and funny remarks and a really interesting world. I loved the mix between science and magic and the nod to all the different places in the UK. I found the pub names particularly funny. I'm excited to read the next chapter and uncover the mysteries started in this book.

Aurienne is a scientist and agreed to heal Osric, despite her internal conflict with his role as an assassin, in order to get funding. They are forced into proximity and end up joining forces to investigate the spread of a deadly pox. This is marketed as a slow burn and enemies-to-lovers, which I do agree with (a small win). It is a VERY slow burn, which is one aspect I appreciated. Aurienne is a strong minded moral character, who really couldn't have cared less about Osric for the majority of the book. Osric had his ego wounded due to the lack of attention, which led to some witty banter between them. Unfortunately, I couldn't connect to the romance as much as I should have because I was struggling to grasp the world which was not developed at the start of the book.

The writing was clunky and the magic system lacked sufficient description. The world building was essentially non-existent with the fan fiction world removed. Third person perspective isn't my favourite, however, it generally works well in fantasy settings. That said, the dialogue read like: "she said" "he said" and there was too much of it. I barely had the chance to form a thought because of the constant dialogue. There wasn't space left for imagination and it made the characters feel one-dimensional. This book leans more on humour rather than strong fantasy themes.

While this didn't work for me, that's not to say it won't work for others. I'm sure readers of the original work will hold higher sentimental value to these characters and enjoy the experience more than I did.

Thank you Little, Brown Book Group and NetGalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

This is how you do enemies-to-lovers! Osric and Aurienne are proper enemies, it was so good. I absolutely loved their banter and I found myself giggling a few times. The opposing Orders were really interesting too, particularly the moral differences between Osric and Aurienne.

I struggled a little bit with the pace, the storyline consists of a lot or travelling to one place, trying an experiment, then going home, and then repeating the same process over and over. I found myself getting bored with it.

The writing was also odd at times, there are a lot of words that are capitalised for emphasis and it's just not needed. I also would've preferred more world building, relying on the glossary for explanations just isn't good enough in a fantasy world like this.

This is a wonderfully hilarious novel of two experts in completely polar fields (assassin and healer) needing to work together to achieve their goals (not dying of rot in his magic and getting funding for immunizing sick kids) with much death, yes quite potty humor of names of meeting places, laugh out loud insults, and a slow realization that they might mean more to each other than they want to be. I laughed hard so many times and was thoroughly entertained with the dance (of death!) between Osric and Aurienne as they travel via waystone from place to place to cure Osric as well as the growing mystery of the pox that is killing so many children. I also would love to have a critique cricket to stow somewhere at someone's house. It would be hilarious! I am also quite impressed by how awesome of an assassin that Osric is (4o guys with just a shoelace) but I also admire the genius of Aurienne both in finagling an impossible cure for Osric, and her dedication of healing and finding out how to stop the pox. I really need the next book now and it better have all the answers and even more banter between these two awesome characters!

I would not call this high or great reading but it is thoroughly entertaining and I really had fun laughing my way through this!

ARC review courtesy of Little, Brown Book Group.

So, I liked this. It was cute, the enemies to lovers was done well and the characters were entertaining. I loved the snark between both especially as they both just had to grin and bear being around each other.

The world was a little confusing. There was a big upfront set of descriptions of the eight orders of magic/seith folks (four light, four dark etc etc) but I think that would have been better served learning about it gradually through the book as keeping them all straight and the names and the things each do wasn't particularly easy as it's all brand new info. Maybe that's just a me thing. But I had no idea what was happening at times, and also what time frame we were in.

The enemies to lovers was going well, then I realised that I was 90% of the way through the book and nothing had happened. Then I realised this was book one of a duology and got annoyed. We get zero, ZERO, payoff in this book. Which is annoying.

The plot was fun, there's a pox ripping through children in the country, but somehow only the orphan/street kids and it's overwhelming the healers and no one of any importance cares. Some plot holes, or at least no explanation of why this is being ignored to such an extent. I guess that's part of the set up for book two but still, felt like a plot device to get our grumpy pair to keep interacting. I'm also still quite unsure on how these two are going to end up together as he fundamentally is something she hates. He literally kills people for a living. Is he going to just change overnight? Does she compromise every principle she has to be with him. Both seem far fetched but I guess we'll find out when book two comes out.

HOWEVER. I then found out that this author also wrote an excellent Harry Potter fanfiction of Hermione Granger as a healer and Draco Malfoy as an auror. So now if I apply Hermione and Draco to these two characters, things make a bit more sense. There's definitely heavy influences of these characters in this book, especially with the healer/haelan parallels to Hermione. As a result, my 4 star rating is being downgraded to a 3 star and I'm just a little disappointed. I know that there's a trend of fanfic's becoming published books (Fifty Shades, Manacled etc) but they tend to be better at making their characters unique and not just the original characters with new names. This is unfortunately the latter. It also explained the lack of world building, we just have a generic modern setting with fantasy applied badly (just like in the world of Harry Potter, thanks JKR).

• I received an ARC for this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review and I appreciate both your work and commitment to this project. The following opinion is my own and holds no major spoilers. •

• The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy
• Brigitte Knightley
• Rating: 4.5/5

I was writing a big sign that said “Slow-burn is dead” when this ARC fell into my hands and made me immediately change my mind. I’ll let you know I don’t trust book marketing anymore. The same tags are being used over and over again to attract readers and once they realize none of the themes that were promised are actually in the book, it’s way too late.

That being said, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy comes in like a sunshine of truth amidst all the fake promises of slow-burn enemies-to-lovers.

I had such a good time reading this book and not just because Brigitte Knightley writes it like she’s having fun with it but because for a book that was supposed to focus primarily on the romance, there’s so many good and actually well-developed fantasy elements that are usually left aside when we’re talking romantasy.

First I need to mention that the healing magic system got me pumped. It’s based on actual modern and scientific medicine which shows there’s research involved. There’s nothing I love more in my readings than when I can tell an author was committed to make their story believable and coherent. If this book was purely fantasy, it’d probably turn into my favorite book ever. Unfortunately, like most romantasies, the side characters are just tools and I really missed more development for them. There’s also a lot of information, magic variations and details about the world that were mentioned but not shown at all, which made me both worried and excited. However, considering this book will have a sequel, I hope we see more light into all of it.

Another strong point was the writing itself. The banter of the main characters was a thrill to read and I got myself laughing out loud more than once at their inability to find middle ground towards anything at all. The fact that they’re both such heavy opposites with different ideologies makes it so much better and the author took her sweet time with it.

Unfortunately, for me, the one thing that didn’t hit were the explicit scenes by the last 10% of the book. It was unnecessary. I worry that when the smut becomes more often in the next books, the plot and the rest of the characters will drown in it like it usually happens and then it’ll be another book ruined for me. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Unfortunately this book was a let down for me. The writing was not to my style, if I read “she said” “he said” one more time I might scream.

World building, where? There was none. Magic exists but we don’t get much information on it. People randomly have Deofuls (animals) and they’re meant to mean something I think but what I couldn’t tell you I guess it’s similar to a patronus. If this is supposed to be a rework of a fanfic the world building is a whole different planet.

The storyline was overall bland, I just didn’t find myself engaged or caring at any point. I didn’t connect with the characters, didn’t know enough about the what of it all to feel invested, we’re meant to be scared of Osric because of his order? But that’s all the information we really get.

There’s far too many characters that don’t add much meaningfully to the story. Aurienne has the haughty holier than thou personality of a first year Hermione, that’s the only real inspiration I can see from Dramione. I haven’t read the original fanfic so can’t comment on how similar they are.

I’ve just finished a Throne of Glass reread so when I look at Tower of Dawn for a comparative healer and patient dynamic this book just did not deliver on tension or meaningful storyline. There is some banter but not enough to sell me on the romance or any semblance of personality.

Thank you to Netgalley and Little Brown for the eArc of this book

This was a damn good book! I haven't read the Dramoine fanfiction yet, and I don't know if I ever will, but you can bet this is about Draco and Hermione, but in a very different way. It's a whole new universe. and the magic system is also very different. It’s really, really great!
The banter between Aurienne and Osric was both amusing and almost ridiculous, but I loved it.
To be honest, I found it hard to get into the story at first, as I was stuck in a reading slump due to a lot of university work. But this book managed to get me out of it and I'm very glad I powered through.
I don't want to say too much or give any spoilers, but the unintentional collaboration between the two and the relationship they build with dark humor and verbal spats is full of amusement and wit and darkness.
And let me tell you this ~ The slow burn was slower than slow and I can't wait for the second volume.

The release date is coming up and it will be in stores on July 8.
Thank you so much to Netgalley, Little, Brown Books Group and Brigitte Knightley for sending me an e-arc.

This book took me awhile to catch on. I was ready to totally put it down seven chapters in as the writing style was not what I was used to. The world building was totally overwhelming with the difficult world words and difficult for me to try and pronounce them in my head had me taking forever to finish a chapter. They felt long and never ending.

That was until I got to 50% into the book. The world was more understandable, we got to know both Osric and Aurienne more. They had ongoing banter which is what kept me turning pages cause at one point I was laughing with what Osric said. The two worlds they live to come together to help heal or true to heal something that is impossible. Upon reading you can see who softens first, Osric started falling first and Aurienne just wasn't bothered or tried to push it out of her head especially with their so different orders. She's a healer and he's well an assassin - kills for a living and does not phase him.

Without adding any spoilers but still adding a little bit, they are trying to find a cure not the normal way but through old ways. Aurienne manages to kill someone "unintentionally" which makes Osric annoyed as she took his fun of killing from him and it's the banter that makes you laugh at how they bicker together. When he meets her family, sleeps and heals in her old bedroom, the little things that makes him realise that she let him in, took care of him even if she really apparently did not want to.

It might not be a give star rating as I have to add that I did find some difficulty wanting to continue and took me longer to read but overall if you push through the first half of the book, it's totally worth it. three star is my rating for this book and will definitely continue to see what happens to both Osric and Aurienne and if they do manage to heal him in the end.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC!

Edit: typos and word choice

When I requested and read this ARC, I was unaware that it was based on Harry Potter fanfiction. I would never have requested this ARC in the first place if I had known. As per the NetGalley agreement, I will still leave an honest review, but I will not request or review the sequel. I also discourage supporting any works based on or promoted as former Harry Potter fanfiction.

This book starts out with an extensive—and I mean extensive—glossary of the different magic terms, orders and even a pronunciation guide. I found the pronunciation guide helpful, but I feel like the other information was not necessary? Like, most of the orders don't even come up much in the story. I thought the magic system was alright, but I didn't care for the deofols, which are like the daemons from His Dark Materials. The only purpose they served in the story was to act as messengers, like they're basically glorified phones.

As for the characters, I did not like how no one takes Osric seriously. He's supposed to be a dangerous Fyren who kills people or whatever, but Aurienne and Xanthe straight up laugh at him to his face??? Maybe that says more about their characters that they aren't intimidated by him, but honestly it just makes him look goofy, like he's not an actual threat. He does eventually prove his skills at murder, but until then it makes it hard to take him seriously. For the romance, I like that the promised slowburn is ACTUALLY a slowburn! And the way their romance (slowly) developed felt very natural and easy to believe. This contradicts what I just said, but in the case of developing their relationship, I really like how Aurienne constantly ridicules him!!

The story as a whole was alright, the romance plot was pretty straightforward. There was also a non-romance side plot that has to do with the magic plague but I didn't care about it at all. The book sort of ends on a cliffhanger? I say sort of because it technically is a cliffhanger, but it doesn't feel urgent at all. Even aside from the fact the I don't want to support this series further, I don't feel any curiosity or desire to find out what happens next. In hindsight, the writing style does come off like fanfiction. Not to say that there is a definitive writing style for fanfiction, but the writing is a little stilted, very dialogue-heavy, and lacking in setting and character descriptions. It could have done with a little more editing to make the sentences flow better.

I'm not sure if this makes sense, but the experience of reading this book was kind of like reading fanfic; it's far from perfect but the worldbuilding is familiar and digestible, it's easy to read, and it's entertaining.

I DEVOURED this book. It was exactly what i needed to get me out of a reading slump. The banter between the characters was so witty and fun, I don’t think I’ve laughed this much whilst reading in a long time. It’s safe to say I’m obsessed with them.

Personally I think that there could have been a bit more world building but it’s not a big issue. I can’t wait for the next book

✨🗡️ "He falls first and harder" but make it stabby and academic ✨🧪

Okay. Deep breath. I need everyone to stop what they’re doing and listen to me scream about the absolutemasterpiece that is The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy . Brigitte Knightley didn’t just write a romantasy — she cracked open the exact flavour of neurodivergent chaos, academic sarcasm, and murderous yearning I’ve been craving and injected it straight into my bloodstream. 💉

This book is like if The Love Hypothesis hooked up with Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, got tipsy at a pub called the SHAG HIM, and then woke up next to a gentleman assassin with unresolved trauma and a PhD in homicide. And honestly? I’d read that fanfic a thousand times over.
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💀 Let’s talk plot (a.k.a. Knife meets Scalpel)

Aurienne Fairhrim is the academic healer of her time — clinical, precise, morally upright and about as warm as an ice bath. She is not here to mollycoddle assassins.

Which is inconvenient, really, because in swaggers Osric Mordaunt — broody, battle-scarred, and bleeding from...well, everything. A member of the Fyren Order (think: posh murder cult in velvet), he’s in desperate need of healing. So he bribes her. Obviously. ✨Love story of the century✨.

Their collaboration is begrudging. Tense. Unhinged. And slowly — deliciously — it starts to shift.
“Are you seriously telling me you’d subject yourself to an unproven course of treatment informed by the worst parts of folk medicine and wishful thinking?”
A person of moderate intelligence would say no.
“Yes,” said Mordaunt.
The man has no self-preservation, and we LOVE HIM FOR IT. 🖤
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❤️‍🔥 The slowest of slow burns (and yes, I would die for it)

This book is the blueprint for enemies-to-lovers done RIGHT. Osric and Aurienne absolutely loathe each other. Not a little. Not playfully. They genuinely wish the other would fall off a cliff — and yet... that knife-edge of hatred? It starts to blur.
“Hate could feel strangely like something else.”
And Osric? This man is feral for her but will never admit it out loud (unless it’s to insult her and call it flirting). His inner monologue is basically: “I want to strangle her. Or kiss her. Maybe both. Definitely both.”
“He hated that he had come to the waystone whole, but left it having lost a piece of himself in two star-brilliant eyes."
The TENSION. The BICKERING. The constant battling to not murder or shag each other senseless. It’s unrelenting and honestly? A little intoxicating.

And yet, despite hardly any overt romance, their dynamic has chemistry for days. It’s all side glances, reluctant concern, sarcastic compliments, and mutual threats.
“He’s more important to me than I would wish him to be.”
“For what it’s worth, I think you’re more important to him than he’d like you to be, too.”
I was HOWLING. CRYING. THROWING things.
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💬 The dialogue is absolutely elite

If you enjoy dry humour, sarcasm as a love language, and being emotionally bullied by fictional people, congratulations. You’ve found your new religion.

Some gems:
“What did you do?” gasped Aurienne.
“He fell.”
“He fell?”
“Yes. On the fork.”
“He fell on the fork? Twenty times?”
“Yes. Due to... fear.”
"What was he afraid of?"
"The fork."
AND:
“You're a member of the Fyren Order, sir... Perhaps you could envisage an early retirement?”
“Do you know how Fyren are retired?”
“Er – no, sir.”
“Death.”
“Ah.”
It’s like if BBC's Sherlock and Good Omens wrote a romantasy together while arguing about ethics.
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🧠 Aurienne Fairhrim: a woman after my own overworked, under-rested heart

Aurienne is sharp. Clinical. Brilliant. And constantly on the verge of disembowelling Osric every time he's in a three-mile radius. She is done with the world, and I respect her immensely.

She’s also deeply human beneath all that controlled logic — and her journey, watching her slowly crack (emotionally, not professionally) was so satisfyingly slow-burn. Every moment of vulnerability is earned.

And the way she refuses to take Osric’s shit?
“I specified an aseptic environment. How do you expect me to heal you if you can’t follow the simplest of instructions?”
“It’s perfectly clean. There hasn’t been a cow here in months. Present company excepted.”
The barn wasn’t clean, by the by. There was a heap of steaming excrement right in front of Aurienne, and it could talk.
Like, inject it. I love her. She's my villain origin story.
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🖤Osric Mordaunt: emotionally repressed velvet murderer, aka my new book husband

He’s basically a feral cat in expensive clothing. Broody, deadly, allergic to expressing feelings — but every so often, he’ll say something that makes you howl and swoon in equal measure.
“I’d do it if you wanted to — ”
“I don’t want to.”
“— but I’d really rather be suffocated by your thighs.”
Sir. Sir...

He’s the “slaughter as love language” type. The “I will commit mass murder because you looked mildly inconvenienced” type. The “falls hard but pretends it’s totally normal to fantasise about twenty-six ways to kill a man with a potato” type.
“There was a sudden stillness among the ladies in the room. Osric only noticed it because he had, himself, gone still, as he decided where to amputate Choking Hazard’s arm, because he had touched his Haelan.”
He’s unwell. I love him deeply.
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🧪 Worldbuilding & writing style? Yes, chef.

The world is lush. Smart. Scientific but fantastical. It blends medicine, myth, political tension and eldritch creatures into a setting that feels incredibly alive.

BUT — let’s address the marmite in the room: the writing style. It’s quirky. It’s chaotic. It’s like reading a book narrated by a dry-witted academic and their feral inner voice. And personally?

✨I ADORED IT.✨

It’s so ADHD-coded. Stream-of-consciousness meets razor-sharp commentary. I felt like I was watching my own brain try to maintain professionalism while surrounded by morons and murderers.
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💫 Side characters deserve their own spin-off

Let’s hear it for:

Xanthe : chaotic cryptid girlie with her axolotl deofol and no tolerance for anybody's nonsense
Elodie and Cath : the girls who’ll tease you relentlessly, but also hide a body for you, no questions asked
Ciele : Aurienne's deofol with dry humour and endless sass
Mrs Parsons : deserves a raise (and therapy)

Honestly, I'd read a sitcom with this entire crew.
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🎯 Final thoughts

This book is the definition of “your enemies-to-lovers hyperfixation just got weaponised.” It’s clever, darkly hilarious, emotionally devastating, and utterly unputdownable. The romance is slow, the yearning is high, and the sexual tension is terminal.
“Might we,” asked Aurienne, “go anywhere without subtracting from the population?”
“Would you prefer,” asked Mordaunt, “that we add to it?”

✨ 5 stars
✨ Infinity re-reads
✨ One emotionally-constipated assassin now living rent-free in my brain

Thank you to Brigitte Knightley, Little Brown Book Group UK/Orbit, and NetGalley for this glorious ARC — I’m feral for book two. Someone sedate me until it's released.

Thank you NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group for my ARC!

Definitely a 4 star read for me! I loved it 🫶

The relationship between Osric and Aurienne is hilarious. The ongoing joke that Osric is stupid, his crude sarcasm contrasting to Aurienne’s level of intelligence, was top tier entertainment. It’s one of the only “enemies to lovers” romances I’ve read recently where they really do intensely hate each other for most of the book. So the slow burn build up is so much more believable. They have a great dynamic, with constant bickering, even before they develop romantic feelings.

The storyline was well thought out, interesting and complex. However, I didn’t love the ending as it kind of just fades out before something dramatic, like an attempt at a cliff hanger but without the urgency? The scene was beautiful but I think I expected more…?

I will DEFINITELY be getting book two! ✨

UM EXCUSE ME WTF WAS THAT ENDING?????

the slowburn in this book was truly slow-burning 🤭🤭 the banter between osric & aurienne was EVERYTHING!!! they had me giggling and kicking my feet 😩😩😩😩 no one told me that osric is lowk a shadow daddy 👀

the plot also really kept me going as much as the romance which i LOVEDDDD!!! given all the build up from this book, im excited for SO MANY THINGS IN THE NEXT BOOK— especially regarding osric’s order 🤫🤫

also, i peeped the brief mention into aurienne’s past regarding a certain hedgewitch and im so very curious. i hope this gets elaborated on more in the next book bc boiiii do i have some theories 👀

The Irresistible Urge follows two people who couldn't be more different. Aurienne gives life while Osric takes it. And even though they are very unlikely to meet, it happens that they both need eachother and so they forge an alliance of some sort. Are they happy about it? Absolutely not. Do they have a choice? Not really.

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The banter, the humor, the way the author plays with words was so entertaining. I have found myself laughing out loud on multiple occasions and one of my favourite parts involved a fork and a "human was".
The middle part did feel a bit slow, it got a bit repetitive but I think it was needed to get to the end of this book. I think it would have felt weird if it wasn't included.

Overall, I enjoyed this way too much, laughed my ass off and I am yearning for book 2!

4,25 stars rounded down.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me this arc. All opinions are my own.

3.8⭐

This was on of my most anticipated releases of 2025 (I am an absolute sucker for romantasy after all), and it did not disappoint!!

I have a few things:
- The flow of dialogue feels a bit different in this books compared to other books I've read. There's lot of back and forth and no clarification on who's talking, it's quick, and if you lose track of who's talking, you will need to read back a bit. This is something you do get used to (I just wasn't going into it).

- The first half of the book was a bit repetitive at times with the treatments and <spoiler> (them not working... is this a spoiler??) </spoiler>, but so so good once you really get into it. I will excuse this as it is a series and not a standalone. Series do tend to start out slower.

It's whitty, quick and charming. Written somewhat like a rom-com, but make it fantasy.
Oh, and most definitely a slowburn! 😏

I will definitely be continuing the series!! 🙌🏻

<i>Thanks to NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group for providing with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.</i>

As a Dramione Girl, when I learned that one of my favorite fic authors was working on her debut work, it obviously went to the top of my most anticipated of the year.

Even though this is a completely new work and away from the fandom, I can say that the author's pen is still the strongest thing about the read, I loved getting to know these characters and being a part of their development.

Aurienne and Osric have been forced to work together (well, her) and we see this adventure unfold in pursuit of fulfilling personal goals, obviously this forced proximity is so full of tension but having the slow burn element, this just simmered, until it already needed something to happen.

It's more of a character story than a world or magic story, so don't expect a big explanation or visualization of the atmospheric setting, but if you're looking forward to meeting a couple of enemies that leave you with a hilarious moment from the laughter they can cause you, these are your guys.

I'm already looking forward to reading the next part, because I can't deal with the tension of not knowing what's going to happen.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC.

As a Dramione Girl, when I learned that one of my favorite fic authors was working on her debut work, it obviously went to the top of my most anticipated of the year.

Even though this is a completely new work and away from the fandom, I can say that the author's pen is still the strongest thing about the read, I loved getting to know these characters and being a part of their development.

Aurienne and Osric have been forced to work together (well, her) and we see this adventure unfold in pursuit of fulfilling personal goals, obviously this forced proximity is so full of tension but having the slow burn element, this just simmered, until it already needed something to happen.

It's more of a character story than a world or magic story, so don't expect a big explanation or visualization of the atmospheric setting, but if you're looking forward to meeting a couple of enemies that leave you with a hilarious moment from the laughter they can cause you, these are your guys.

I'm already looking forward to reading the next part, because I can't deal with the tension of not knowing what's going to happen.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC.

As a Dramione Girl, when I learned that one of my favorite fic authors was working on her debut work, it obviously went to the top of my most anticipated of the year.

Even though this is a completely new work and away from the fandom, I can say that the author's pen is still the strongest thing about the read, I loved getting to know these characters and being a part of their development.

Aurienne and Osric have been forced to work together (well, her) and we see this adventure unfold in pursuit of fulfilling personal goals, obviously this forced proximity is so full of tension but having the slow burn element, this just simmered, until it already needed something to happen.

It's more of a character story than a world or magic story, so don't expect a big explanation or visualization of the atmospheric setting, but if you're looking forward to meeting a couple of enemies that leave you with a hilarious moment from the laughter they can cause you, these are your guys.

I'm already looking forward to reading the next part, because I can't deal with the tension of not knowing what's going to happen.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC.

DNF at 29%

I was genuinely looking forward to reading this book, as it was one of the big releases of the year.

And I think it's important to mention that I enjoy reading published Fanfics, especially if I don't belong to the fandoms they come from. I was curious what the year of Dramione would bring, but with this one I was disappointed by what I read.

First of all, I found it boring and empty. The characters didn't mean anything to me. From what I understand, the female protagonist is bisexual, good for her I guess. But I didn't feel much depth in the characters or the world-building.

Now to why I did the impossible, leaving the book unfinished. Well, the reason was the humour.
There comes a point when the characters go to a spa and while they're in the spa there's a series of jokes and humorous/sexual situations that are just embarrassing to read. This humour continues throughout the entire chapter. And as soon as I finished this chapter I seriously considered quitting the book, but I gave it a second chance and the next chapter continues with the same register and I just gave up.

But are the jokes that cringeworthy? Yes. And to the point that I counted the word "penis" 10 times in a humourous context in about 20 pages.

So maybe one day I'll give it a chance again. But until then, I don't recommend this book.