I have been devouring all the duet audiobooks and this has been on my tbr for a bit after reading and loving Butcher and Blackbird. I knew this one came with some mixed reviews and I didn’t get it at first because I enjoyed the beginning. 

I read through some reviews and even though this wasn’t a win for me, either, I also don’t necessarily feel the same as other reviewers. I liked Lachlan and the plot, from the marriage of convenience to the whole slow burn enemies to lovers trope. I didn’t think the beginning was boring at all. I liked the build up. 

What I didn’t like was Lark. 

I didn’t understand her at all, I felt like it was super weird for to hide major parts of herself from her best friend, who would not judge her at all for obvious reasons. I didn’t like the batshit crazy Harley Quinn vibes at all. As a side character, maybe it would be fun, but as a main character, it didn’t work for me. I dreaded her POVs unless she was mad at Lachlan, because that was at least fun. I mean Sloan definitely had some scared deer vibes as well, but I felt like I understood her a lot more as a character so her actions, even though they frustrated me, felt understandable. 

The trust was slowly building between the two and I was hoping that maybe Lark would let Lachlan in and then I’d also start to feel something about her as a character, but the moment I felt like we were getting somewhere, the spice began. Normally, I’m not one to complain about that, but it just didn’t hit for me. I just kind of cringed until the scenes were over, I don’t know if it was because of the content (which I doubt?) or just me not really feeling the two of them together. I felt wary of Lark so the whole time we got Lachlan’s POV I guess I just wanted to have Lark’s to see if she was actually enjoying everything or if she’d freak out or hold it against him later. I genuinely wanted Lachlan to have a happy ending, so I appreciated the overall story and how it ended, I just think Lark is one of those people you’d have to tiptoe on eggshells with and I was just stressed for Lachlan. 

I also wasn’t a huge fan of the narrator for Lark, as I felt she kind of made Lark seem crazier with all the humming and singing and giggling and maybe it wouldn’t have come off so alarming to me had there been a different narrator? 

I’m a little scared to read the next book because I have no idea how I feel about Rose.