Summary

Overall rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4.5/5

Spicy rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3.75/5

A beautifully performed audiobook and highly recommended as an immersive read for that extra emotional impact!

Childhood best friends, first love, years of heartbreak and enough unresolved trauma to destroy me emotionally 😭

The thing I love about Peyton’s books is how angsty they are! There's something so heartbreaking about two people who have loved each other for so long, yet have so much pain and history standing between them. The second-chance romance, the childhood connection and the feeling that they never truly stopped loving each other makes Lily and Toren’s story all the more emotional.

Toren is such an intriguing character, especially with his reputation as the angry, reckless hockey player hiding a much more vulnerable side. But finally getting to see things from his side completely changed my view on the whole series. His relationship with Lily brings out a different part of him, and the contrast between how the world sees him and who he is beneath all that hurt is beautifully written.

Lily's struggles with depression (a very raw and real representation I’ll add) and her controlling relationship with her father add another layer of heaviness to the book. I appreciate that the story doesn't shy away from difficult emotions and the ways trauma can affect someone's relationships, self-worth and ability to move forward.

I would’ve liked a wee bit more of their past on page to really understand what made their relationship fall apart. Some of the heavier themes also deserved more room to be explored in depth but this is just my personal preference.

That being said, the premise of Toren and Lily's story is heartbreaking in the best way, and there's something incredibly satisfying about watching two people confront their past and consider the possibility of finding their way back to each other.

Undone was the perfect emotional, messy, angsty conclusion to the series and I’m incredibly sad to be leaving these characters behind. It’s a story about first love, second chances, and learning that being loved doesn't mean you have to be perfectly healed first.

Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Someone hold me back because I’m going feral for these two.

I fear, Peyton has done it again. Was I crying? Yes. Was my heart achinggggg? Yessssss.

Undone was the perfect ending to this series 🥹 I’m so happy for all of them!

Thankyou Peyton Corinne, Hachette, Hodder and Stoughton Audio and NetGalley for an ARC of Undone!

Thank you so much to Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley for an ALC of this book! 🤍🏒🎨

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars

Did I expect anything other than being emotionally destroyed by a Peyton Corinne book while thoroughly enjoying every single page of it?
Heck no.

And yet somehow Undone still managed to leave me completely speechless.

I'm genuinely struggling to explain everything I loved about this book because the answer is simply: everything. The characters. The story. The emotions. The friendships. The romance. The heavier themes. Toren and Lily. All of it.

There was actually a moment when I was reading and suddenly realized something was sliding down my cheek. Apparently, I'd started crying without even noticing. That's the kind of emotional hold this book had on me.

Toren and Lily absolutely broke my heart. They're two incredibly flawed, hurting people carrying so much more than anyone around them realizes, and there were countless moments when I just wanted to reach through the pages and give both of them the strongest hug possible.

Their history made their relationship even more emotional. Childhood best friends. First loves. Two people who once meant everything to each other finding their way back into one another's lives while carrying years of pain and unresolved feelings? Yeah. I never stood a chance.

But what I loved most was that this wasn't simply a story about two broken people magically fixing each other by falling in love. Their connection matters, but both Toren and Lily have their own battles to fight. They have to learn to let people in, confront the things hurting them, and understand that asking for help doesn't make them weak.

I also really appreciated how openly this book deals with mental health struggles, complicated family relationships, depression, and self-destructive behavior. These are heavy topics, but they never felt included simply for shock value. Instead, they made the characters feel painfully human. There are so many different struggles represented within these pages that I think a lot of readers will recognize at least a small part of themselves in someone.

I also had the opportunity to experience Undone as an audiobook, and Andre Bellido and Caitlin Elizabeth were absolutely amazing. They brought so much emotion to Toren and Lily and made an already incredibly emotional story hit even harder. Every vulnerable moment, every bit of pain, and every tender interaction felt that much more real through their performances. Their voices fit the characters beautifully, and I genuinely couldn't have asked for a better duo to bring Toren and Lily's story to life. 🤍🎧

And on a much smaller but very personal note: finding out Lily's favorite painter is Vincent van Gogh made me ridiculously happy. He's my favorite too, and I adore his paintings, so that tiny detail immediately made me feel even closer to her. 🥹

Peyton Corinne deserves every single bit of love and recognition her books receive. There is something about the way she writes complicated, hurting characters that makes them feel so incredibly real. She doesn't shy away from their ugliest or most vulnerable moments, but she also gives them tenderness, hope, and people willing to stand beside them through it all.

Undone hurt. It made me cry. It made me want to hug practically everyone. And somehow, I loved every second of having my heart ripped apart.

Absolutely beautiful. Absolutely devastating. Absolutely worth every one of those five stars.

As my first time reviewing an audiobook on NetGalley, I am so glad I picked up Undone by Peyton Corinne! Even though this was my first book in the series, it made me want to go back and binge read all the others immediately!!
I completely fell for the childhood friends-to-lovers trope, and Lily and Toren had such an amazing connection that you could truly feel how deeply they cared for each other, that was really so cute!
Their story was an absolute emotional rollercoaster, but I loved every minute of it.


The audio production was outstanding, and the narrators, Andre Bellido and Caitlin Elizabeth, did an amazing job bringing the characters to life. It felt so real and captivating that I truly felt like I was right there in the story with them. The plot kept me totally hooked, and I spent so many moments literally on the edge of my chair! I highly recommend hitting play on this one!!!!
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ALC in exchange for my honest review!

5⭐️

Thank you NetGalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the ARC and ALC

I really wanted to cherish this book and take my time with it because I adore Peyton Corinne’s writing and characters but yet again the book was just too addictive to put down! There is something about her writing that really does fuel my soul and I connect with on a deeper level. I am once again blown away by depth of these characters and how I really connected to both of them.

Lily’s character is written with such care and her struggles with depression really hit close to home with my own. Her description of the bone weary tiredness of just fighting to get through each day felt so real. Toren at his core is a young boy who just wants anyone to believe in him and love him and watching him slowly open his heart to those around him was truly heartwarming. I spent most of the book just wanting to hold and protect both Toren and Lilly. I still love the wider cast of characters in these books. They really do add to the story.

This series is going to stick with me for a very long time and it’s one I know I need to revisit again and again. Whatever Peyton writes next will be an automatic add to my TBR.

The audiobook is a definite listen to as well! They both really add to character depth and our ability to connect to them!

I wish I had the words to convey just how special this series has been to me.

This book was a perfect bow on top of it all. I fell in love with Toren at the Halloween Party in book 2.

Him and Lily are working to get to each other throughout this book but that does miss the mark and get a bit murky in the middle, a bit repetitive. Outside of that I still really enjoyed it, and I really loved the relationship they got back to and the one Lily and Holden built. I think if you go into this book you absolutely need to be reading the previous 3 to understand the changes and relationships Toren goes through. His growth throughout the series is truly one of my favorites.

This book is out soon and I can't wait for more people to get their hands on it.

✨ UNDONE by Peyton Corinne ✨

Are you a sucker for a second-chance romance? 👀❤️

Because apparently I am, especially when you give me two idiots who are clearly still obsessed with each other but insist on fighting their feelings for half the book. 😂😭
Lillian & Toren… I am OBSESSED with you.
I spent so much of this book wanting to shake them both and yell JUST DO IT ALREADY. The tension, the history, the feelings… I ate it ALL up. 🥹❤️

I absolutely adored Lillian and Toren, but her father? Yeah… I hated that man. An absolutely awful father and somehow even worse to Toren. They both deserved SO much better. Honestly, he deserves to be 6ft under. 😂

The secondary characters were such a highlight too! Holden quickly became a favourite, and Coach Harris and his wife had my whole heart. 🥹

This was my first Peyton Corinne book and definitely NOT my last! The spice was 🔥🔥 and I’m not gonna lie… Toren’s piercings had me VERY intrigued. 👀🥵

I listened to this on audio and the narrators were SO good. They fit their characters perfectly, and I especially loved how they handled each other’s POVs during the spicy scenes. Not once did I cringe, which can sometimes happen for me with dual narration. 👏🏻
I also really appreciated the disability representation and getting to experience Lillian’s struggles alongside her. As someone who struggles with their own mental health, there were moments where I really connected with her and genuinely felt seen. 🥹❤️

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5 STARS
I’m honestly kicking myself for not reading this sooner! I’ll definitely be picking up the rest of the series.
Thank you to Midnight and the author for my early proof copy! I’ll be shouting about this one to everyone in my book club and book besties because MORE PEOPLE NEED TO READ IT. 🫶🏻📚

This series is absolutely 5 stars for me!
Torens character and growth is amazing.
Undone.... I listened to this on audio and enjoyed the narrators. Second chance forbidden romance I was there for it. The connection they have is fab. I hated Lilys dad he's perfect villain character.
My one and only flaw with this book and the reason I'd go either way 4.5 instead of 5 stars and it's completely a me thing but I actually cringed everytime toren called Lily 'doll'.

Totally not sobbing right now! (Lies)

THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL and one of my favourite books of 2026 - this series is everything, and Undone is the most perfect ending to it all. Even though I may be emotionally distraught that it's over, I am unwell. The audio of this made even more of an impact to the reading experiance.

Undone is a story about two broken souls leaning on each other, being each other's person when life is at its hardest, even when literally everything is trying to keep them apart.
Toren and Lily truly deserve each other, and they deserve the world

Toren, while rough, standoffish and mean on the outside, is probably one of the sweetest, most caring, patient, and understanding MMC's I have ever read - he really is misunderstood by so many people, and the world is against him.
But the way he was with Lily, Protecting and being there for her even when he was Angry at things.

Once Toren has someone he cares about, I don't think there's anything we wouldn't do for them.

Lily was a very complex FMC but she was perfect in her own ways, she struggles with her mental health alot (Please check TW's) but throughout Undone we see her find her own way, make friendships shes never had and most importantly find happiness thats not at the hands of other people.

Peyton has always done an AMAZING job at representing the difficult topics this book faces; one of the biggest topics is depression and how that can feel for a person and what goes on deep in their mind. I felt like it was written with so much care and understanding.

I wish I could go back and read this all again - and also cry all over again.

Thank you Netgalley, Hodder & Stoughton and Peyton Corinne for the opportunity to review this arc!

Wow 😭 this book was so beautiful, Toren and Lily's story broke my heart and then put it back together again.
The found family in this is perfect, Lily finding a best friend in Paloma was just the most wholesome thing 🥹🥹
Toren finally being accepted as part of the team and as part of the family healed something inside me honestly.

Lily's dad made me want to throw my kindle and earphones at the wall, repeatedly. I don't think I've ever been so enraged by a character 🤣

It's not often that I read a book where I can see so much of myself in the FMC, Lily's character and her journey, made me feel so seen. I absolutely recommend picking up this book, it was beautiful, inspiring and so relatable.

What a way to end the series, well done Peyton.

I knew I was going to love this book the most before I even started, I've been so intruiged by Toren since I started this series, and I loved what we saw of Lily in the previous book.

Undone was emotional, heartbreaking, frustrating at times but also very sweet and heartfelt. You can tell the author put everything she had into this one.

The audio was 10/10, fantastic narration that really captured all the emotion and had me in tears. I can see this author doing really well in her future works and can not wait to see what she does next.

Lily & Toren will forever have a place in my heart and I'm so grateful for the chance to review this arc copy.

There are not enough words to express how beautiful this series is.

Emo music references, humanizing the character who’s been villainized throughout the series, spicy hockey romance, disability representation, and praise. Yup. This is a brilliant read and series.

4.5 stars

This book was such a huge anticipated read of 2026 for me, having met Toren in previous books and I am not disappointed. This was everything. Lily and Toren are such an incredible couple, and their story was honestly so beautiful. Corinne has written such a fantastic romance to end what has been a truly incredible series (even if Unbound wasn't quite what I thought it would be!).

Corinne tackles depression and mental health so amazingly in this book (in my opinion as some one who struggles with their MH but has not got a diagnosis of depression).

I have found that I'm loving second change romance so much and this hit the spot. The yearning from each of the characters without actually wanting to go all in was beautiful. I am a sucker for a 'bad boy' reputation turned good, even if it's a false narrative of 'bad boy'. Toren Kane was a fantastic MMC, and a new fave in this series. His relationship with Liam was soo cute!!

I picked up the audio and quite frankly, didn't want to stop. The male narration was sooooo good, it truly made this book for me. It took me a moment to get used to the narration for Lily but I got there, and it was also very good.

Why not five stars? I felt the pacing was off at points and I did struggle with the flashbacks a bit - in terms of not really know if it was a flashback or not. I think it came through on the ebook a lot easier but I did get confused at points.

Overall, a beautiful ending to a fab series, and I'm sad to say goodbye to these characters!

'𝑰 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑳𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏. 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔.'

I devoured this book! Toren and Lily's story was so beautifully written, but it's an emotional ride! The second chance in this was done beautifully, their love was EVERYTHING! They deserve the world! She's an artist and his skin is basically a piece of art dedicated to her 😍

A big shout out to Peyton for the depression rep in this story, you could tell that care was put into how that part of the story was written! Did I cry? Absolutely!!

The spice was woven into the story nicely too without taking away too much from the raw and emotional parts. Toren is such a simp for her and I'm so here for it!! Special shout out to chapter 37 👀 I read this book as a mix of ebook and audio but that chapter in audio form was 🥵

I loved the found family, especially Holden, he's the sunshine to Toren's grumpy 😍 He's so funny and laid back but I boy does he switch up when defending those he cares about and I'm so glad Toren and Lily's had him in their corner!

'𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕.'

Reading this in ebook and audiobook format, I really threw myself into the story and adored it!! The narrators did a great job of bring the emotional parts to life!

Thank you so much to Hodder and Staughton for the advance copies for review 🫶🏻

I just finished the ALC for this and I can’t even think 😭😭 I have been so excited for Toren & Lily’s story and it did not disappoint 🥹 I couldn’t put the audio down.

Childhood friends to lovers to strangers 🥹 I loved Toren & Lily’s relationship so much. They both had gone through so much together and I just wanted to give them both a hug. Lily had a lovely childhood with her mum dying and her dad not really loving her. You could feel the emotion through the narrators.

In true Peyton form, I was crying and giggling at the same time. We get insights into Lily’s struggle with depression and also Toren’s sense of loneliness. Toren was so broody but also had such a filthy mouth. I also really loved his friendship with Holden.

I am actually heartbroken that this series is over 😭 I love their found family and loved seeing Paloma & Lily become friends 🥹 They both deserved to have a friend. The epilogue also had me both happy & crying. I was so happy to see all the couples’ futures. I loved how Coach Harris and his wife took in and became adoptive parents to Toren.


Quotes I loved:
“Toren has spent our entire lives believing
Van Gogh is my highest obsession, but it’s him. It’s always been him”

“He was my everything. My first kiss. My first everything. My only everything.”

“I wear my obsession for Lily Lablanc on my skin. Hers is painted on these walls.”

"There's not a world that exists, in the multitudes out there, where Toren Kane and Lily LaBlanc aren't tied together. True soulmates who would find each other, no matter what"

Thank you Hodder & stoughton audio for the ALC

🏒 Undone - Peyton Corinne

⭐ 5/5

Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I was SO excited for Undone. I've loved this series from the beginning, and after becoming increasingly attached to Toren and Lily in the previous book, finally getting their story felt like something I'd been waiting forever for.

I'll admit, I struggled with Lily initially. Her sheltered upbringing, passivity and the amount of control her father had over her life frustrated me, and at times I found it difficult to understand why she didn't push back more. But the further I got into her story, the more I understood her. Her apathy isn't a lack of strength. It's the result of depression, years of control and having so little opportunity to decide what she actually wants for herself. Peyton Corinne once again handles mental health with so much care, and watching Lily gradually find pieces of herself beneath everything she'd been conditioned to accept made her journey incredibly rewarding.

And then there's Toren. Oh, Toren 😭

He's so much more than hot chaos in hockey gear. Underneath the reputation, scandals and terrible decisions is someone who cares so deeply that he seemingly has no idea what to do with all of it. He provokes, self-sabotages and pretends nothing matters, while his actions repeatedly reveal exactly how much everything matters. He's not reckless because he feels nothing. He's reckless because he feels everything. And watching Toren and Lily finally find their way back to each other was EVERYTHING.

Their relationship has history. It has hurt, yearning, chemistry, resentment and so much love buried underneath years of complicated feelings. Easy would never have worked for these two. They needed messy. They needed difficult conversations and uncomfortable truths. They needed to understand who they'd become apart before they could decide what they could be together. And that payoff was so worth it.

I also loved how art becomes their language. One of my favourite things about this series is the way Peyton Corinne gives each couple a different form of creative expression, and the paintings woven throughout Toren and Lily's relationship were beautiful.

The fact that Toren tattooed her favourite paintings onto his body? This ridiculous man. I cannot 😭

I was initially convinced the connection between Toren, Lily and Holden might develop into a poly relationship, and I'll admit there is still a tiny part of me that would have loved to see that explored. Their individual dynamics had so much potential. But ultimately, that wasn't the story being told, and Toren and Lily's relationship felt emotionally complete on its own.

And perhaps my favourite thing about Undone - and this series as a whole - is the found family.

At this point, I'm not simply invested in each new couple. I'm invested in this entire ridiculous, complicated group of people. The way they show up for one another through trauma, mental illness, mistakes and some spectacularly questionable decisions has become the heart of these books for me.

The Harris family standing by Toren particularly destroyed me. They know his flaws and his history, and they love him anyway. Not conditionally. Not only when he's behaving like the version of himself everyone wants him to be. They simply keep showing up.

There is something so wholesome about watching all these characters gradually build a family where people are allowed to struggle without becoming unlovable. What a way to finish the series. I can already tell I will be thinking of this beautiful, messy family for a while to come.

🎧 Note on the Audiobook: This was my first time listening to Andre Bellido and Caitlin Elizabeth, and they were absolutely perfect as Toren and Lily. Their performances brought both characters to life exactly as I had imagined them, capturing their personalities, emotions and vulnerabilities so well. They made an already emotional story feel even more immersive and engaging, and I’ll definitely be looking out for more of their work after this. And the dedication and acknowledgements being recorded by Peyton Corinne herself added such an unexpectedly special touch. Hearing her words in her own voice genuinely gave me chills and made finishing this series feel even more emotional. It was such a beautiful, personal way to close out a series I've become so attached to - and somehow made saying goodbye to these characters even harder in the best way 🩷

⭐ 5/5 - messy, vulnerable, romantic and deeply emotional. Toren and Lily's story is about depression, self-worth, forgiveness and finding your way back to someone after you've both changed - wrapped inside one of the warmest found families I've become attached to in a romance series.