4.5 🌟
This book was addicting to me, it kept me up until 3 a.m. I enjoyed it A LOT.
If you're going into the book also expecting fantasy elements, let me stop you right there.
Going into it, dont expect world building cause that's absent, and the only fantasy aspect is the Shadow King, that's it. But I didn't mind that.

Now what I liked about the book are the characters, mostly Alessandra. She's quite different if you ask me, than the typical YA female characters that we usually get, it was refreshing. She's a BADASS, she doesn't let anybody tell her what to do, knows what she wants, she sets the goal and gets it done.

"The poets can say whatever they damned like. A woman’s worth is not decided by what’s between her legs but by what is in her mind".

BTW I also like that it's a standalone, but kinda shooked that we didn't get an epilogue? Like I've waited so long for things to finally happened (the romance was slooow burn) give me moooore!

“I think that when you care enough for someone, you reach a point where it’s far more painful not to have him at all than to have him and risk losing him. You realize the risk is worth it. Because happiness, however short-lived, is always worth it.”