Which might perhaps maybe explain why I felt the urge to slap some humility into the dude whenever he made an appearance and stuff.īecause yes, I am one of those despicable human crustacean beings who can’t stand don’t like silly new adults very mucho. Drinking up Dealing with the Scourge of Mexico’s deliciously smug, 30-something ass is one thing, but having to put with a shallow, barely-out-of-his-teens lad’s self-complacency is something else entirely. Catalina comes across as a pale imitation of her sister, and Alessandro’s overbearing arrogance is exasperating. I might not have minded this, had the leads been as charismatic as Nevada and Rogan my beloved husband, but they aren’t, so I did. As much as it pains me to admit it, there are way too many situations/scenes/pieces of dialogues/whatever in Sapphire Flames that read like carbon copies of situations/scenes/pieces of dialogues/whatever from the first three books in the series. YES Sapphire Flames is entertaining and fast-paced and full of IA Scrumptiousness, BUT:

It does look excellent not look good for me, yay and stuff unfortunately, so I thought I might as well keep digging my own grave by exposing my shamefully reprehensible thoughts about this story. My life has been naught but excruciating pain courtesy at the vicious hands of the Super Extra Yummy barbarously ruthless Butcher of Merida for the past few weeks, and I would love nothing more than to be relentlessly chastised by him forever and ever and ever and stuff escape from this abyss of agony post haste. Soooooo, because of my most abhorrent rating for this book, I find my little nefarious self writing this thing from the deepest depths of IA Hell. Because I'm Super Extra Brave (SEB™) like that. ➽ And the other moralssss of this reread are: Alessandro is a giant ass clown of the first order and needs to be taken down approximately 150,000 notches, I want to be Grandma Frida when I grow old up, Bug and Bern need to hook up post haste, if Catalina says 'I can't even' one more time I'm unleashing the murderous crustaceans on the whole planet, the Cuddly Beast of Cologne should be the star of this show, and I'm still waiting for the Zeus spin-off series.

➽ And the moral of this reread is: sorry not sorry but I still think this reads like Rogan & Nevada, The Angtsy YA Edition.

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