Heartless Sky by Susanne Valenti & Caroline Peckham

I am beyond positive Darius won’t face the consequences of his sacrifice or a way around it will be found. You won’t convince me otherwise until I read otherwise. Which I won’t. 

As much as I love and adore Geraldine, it was incredibly jejune of her to assume Tory and Darcy had these wonderful Christmas experiences when they’ve been fairly forthright with how generally shit the whole rest of their lives were. They shouldn’t have to expressly state they didn’t have Christmas presents or warm hugs for context clues to lend themselves to the conclusion that Christmas was another shit experience for them. And the comment about the warm and loving foster mom? That roasted my ass. Geraldine is better than that and that felt really out of character for her. She may be detached from reality by a small margin, but she’s by no means dumb. 

I’m tired of Seth and Caleb. ADMIT HOW YOU FEEL. Tiring ass mother effers. I vehemently detest miscommunication as a plot device. “oH bUt hEs NoT gAy” You pretty boys have been bumping and grinding for months and eye fucking each other every single chance you get. Pathetic. 

And can I say ewwwwwww, why are we getting Lionel’s POV????? He’s the antagonist. You don’t platform the antagonist???? 

Man, Orion makes me so tired. He’s so whiny. He’s never not whiny. His POVs make me want to rip my hair out because he went from this confusing and complicated but confident and assertive man to a whiny little bitch. 

Also? Why is Washer still here? Can he please die in this war? He makes me viscerally uncomfortable and I will skip his dialogue every single opportunity I get. 

“Tyler lifted his tail and farted a spurt of glitter in her face“ I’m sorry that’s so unserious and I laughed so hard. Quality content, more of that please.  

Well, we know there’s no chance in hell of Darius dying until Christmas because Gabriel himself saw it. So, no matter what he does, no fear because no stakes. 

RYDERRRRR!! My straight giddy ass glee that he was the one to pierce Xavier. Also??! I love Xavier for that. Very hot, very Acrux. I personally wouldn’t have the balls. However, my boy Xavier in the same breath. That poor man cannot catch a break to save his life. Flash his dick jewels in front of everyone including his mother in the middle of his Doms grief over losing his mother? Ouch. But then to also blast to the universe he fucked NOT JUST A CHICK BUT ALSO A DUDE IN ALL THE HOLES right in front of god and everybody, his poor mother again included, with a dead body literally 2 feet away? Jesus find that boy and grant him a miracle because he needs it desperately. 

I would love LOVE just one single cohesive story line. Like, I’m so tired of bouncing around between 7 different characters. Every time I settle into the Darcy/Orion/Journal story line, BOOM we’re at Seth/Caleb/gay for each other but won’t talk about it and I’m getting comfortable with the narrative again and BOOM we’re at Xavier getting his dick pierced and domming Tyler. Shits sake. I’m too tired for this. 
 
The problem with having books this long with so many different POV’s is that it gets bogged down and convoluted. At this point, I don’t care about the plot if it isn’t Lionel straight up dying or being chained up and forced to watch his sons and the Vegas flourish while he rots. Seth and Caleb’s story is compelling because of the longing. Darcy and Orion have bored me for a while. Tory and Darius are beyond exhausting and I’m ready for them to settle into happy marital bliss. Max and Geraldine need to stop dancing around each other, admit what they want, and go for it. Xavier, Tyler, and Sofia were the most interesting couple dynamic wise in this book. That had been Caleb and Seth but now I’m just tired of them. They took too long to get to the admitting how they feel portion of events. The Big Bang of coming together for that first kiss is all well and good, but if it’s not followed by communication, it’s pointless. The longing is for the admittance, not the smut. That’s something I don’t think these authors realize. 

I thought Elysian mate bonds were supposed to be rare? 

God, I’m tired.