Morrigan Rivers

Sweet in all the right places

It's a weekday, I have to be up at 07:00 and I've got deadlines I need to meet early in the morning... So that's why I had to write this review because you had me up till 01:30 and you had me thinking about your world and your characters and itching to get back to it as soon as I opened my eyes! So thank you, Rose, and none of that is sarcasm. You did a great job, you had me always wanting to find out more and at no point did I feel like I could put this down without missing out on something or being left without an answer I really wanted to get. There's great and slow world building throughout your story and bits and pieces of characters backgrounds that you give us chance to learn and explore without them feeling rushed. And your characters are real - my advice there would be to take more risks with your storytelling about them. You paint them so well, they have strengths and weakness and you manage to bring them pieces of light and darkness so they don't end up cookie-cutter characters or stale - so take risks - don't tell us what to think about them: give us 2+2 and let us figure it out because, trust me, we want to and we want to spend more time thinking about your world and the wonderful people you put in it. And I think it's a fantastic thing to discover your work now because I have no doubt we'll be seeing a lot more of your name in bigger and better places the longer you keep writing, and I can't wait!

Has everything you want!

I really enjoyed this story! It has a really good balance between super-natural elements and staying "human". The characters go through believable and consistent growth and stay with you when you put it down for the day. I was always left wondering what was going to happen at the end of each chapter and always ended up reading far longer than I thought I would! On a technical side point, I think your characters are super solid. I didn't agree with the comments on certain chapters where they were criticizing how your characters acted. I think that it stays consistent within the world and their "mate bond." I think some of the plot points and dialogue could be tweaked to give it that extra edge and bring them away from the more "cliched" things that we expected; but there was never a chapter that left me disappointed. You nailed the hard part! Your characters are great, believable and relatable. My advice would be, trust in that and take a few more risks with your language. Don't always tell us "what" they are feeling but "how" and let us figure it out. Trust me, we want to because your characters and world are super interesting and we want to spend time thinking about it afterwards. Sorry for a super long review but I thought you deserved it and I really think you could go far! Will definitely be diving into your library and hope to see more from you soon!