On Chapter 7

I'm only on chapter 7 and I'm already enjoying this book SO much more than the last two! I mean it too! I have zero complaints whatsoever and the positives are so far, many.

The readers have improved, although the male was always pretty decent.

The cheesiness has gone way down so far, the Characters are much more likeable and nothing like the other four. I am quite enjoying myself with this novel. I've even found myself chuckling at a few of the jokes and such throughout. I am so pleasantly surprised by this! I hope the story continues in this vein!

-- I have finished the story and really hope others will stick the first two out to get here. --

Astra is a breath of fresh air to an otherwise suffocating storyline. The first two novels in this series have near sub zero on this one. Her cousins seem so stuffy and unreasonable in comparison, and I felt so much closer to Astra than I ever did Raven or Cerise. She is fun and calm and so easy going! I love her cereal thing. Absolutely every time she mentions cereal I cracked up. I hadn't really gotten any emotion out from the first two novels but both Astra and Blaze were so much more fun to read about! I could honestly listen to the rest of the series happily if it just followed those two.

I'm genuinely worried that after feeling so much more akin to the characters in Spellstruck, I'm going to be disappointed with the next(/final?) book in the series. If it is in fact the final, I would absolutely love a series about their everyday lives as wolves' wives and to that would even prefer one about their children! Imagine each witch had a set of wolf/witch hybrid twins?! I really feel like a book about their shenanigans would be so much fun!

Continuing on, I genuinely felt this novel deserves full stars. I still would never rate them as the best series in the world, I've read many of the classics, the entire Harry Potter series (top notch worldbuilding and awesome plot, I recognize the writing isn't the best, but I feel it's still better than this series by a decently long shot) ...twice, and some of my absolute favourite stories were written by Shakespeare (Othello and King Lear) after all, but this story shows that the author is improving dramatically and quickly. I feel like the sex scenes still could use some work, mostly in that they are quite repetitive in their wordage; that said, it's nothing a good thesaurus, and understanding of the English language can't solve.

I gave full stars for the Presentation as well.

The male VA has always been excellent, the only thing off being mispronounciation every now and then, but otherwise, he has been excellent. I especially enjoy his female voices. They sound more feminine without sounding ridiculous, nor like he's trying too hard.

The female VA has much improved. She still puts emphasis in the wrong spot sometimes, this time the example I found most apparent was one of the sex scenes where she sounded like an excited child, instead of an aroused woman. I feel like she needs to find a way to portray "sexy" during the scenes, where she just sounds like an especially skilled 12th grader reading a speech, just increasing volume when faced with an exclamation mark. I also found she still puts the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable. I gave all five stars to her preformance in this particular book because her aforementioned flaws were not as obvious nor as numerous within its pages. Her reading was still not perfect, but the missteps were no where near enough to warrant removing a star.

Please stick out the first two books if only to get to this one. The characters are adorable and way more relatable, the plot was DIFFERENT from the first two books, although similar enough to fit into the storyline and the humor and pacing were on point. I both can't wait and am scared to listen to the bext book. See you at the end of the next review! Oh, and thanks so much for reading. I know it's a lot! ♡

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