🖤🧚♂️ Exquisite Enemies-to-Lovers, Slow Burn with Mafia Vibes!!🧚♂️🖤
Geneva Lee, just WOW!! This first time Author (to me) has helped me love the Fae even more than I did through Quicksilver! This could be because this Fae book is built in the real world (New Orleans), and then the Fae have other worlds around it, so the world building is not very complex or hard for me to understand. But, it could also be because I absolutely ADORE Cate and Lachlan Gage.
Cate is a nurse who's also a complete bada$$ FMC! She was in foster care most of her life, so she's really seen some stuff you know? When her foster brother Channing gets in trouble with the Gages she goes to who she thinks is the head of an underground drug gang in New Orleans, but really Lachlan Gage is the Heir to the Nether Court and he is MORE than willing to make a bargain with the very pretty Cate.
Cate is determined to save both Channing, and herself, but as time progresses and she meets new people in the Nether Court she begins to question the Gage's part in the trouble plaguing New Orleans. Also Lach is showing himself to her more and more each night, but there's a conundrum. Are they enemies, or are those shadows in his eyes because he really can't stand to watch her walk away every day?
He owns her nights, but he might never learn all about her days, especially with that ridiculous collar off! OK, he calls it a necklace, but is that really the point if he can HEAR her thinking through it?
Lachlan Gage is one of the most GORGEOUS creatures described to me this year! Dark hair, Emerald green eyes, and the snark is off the charts!! When he made the bargain with Cate he's described as being brooding and dark, and throughout the book it's hard for other Fae, including his Penumbrium to get a real laugh or smile out of him, but he laughs at least once a day with Cate, even if it's just a snort. You can see them being drawn to each other immediately, and it's not just, as Cate calls it, Lach's "sexy magic."
Lach's main failure is making decisions for everyone that they may not agree with, just because he thinks it will keep them safe. This pulls him away from his own family, and some of the other Courts, and keeps him from seeing what is truly happening right in front of his eyes.
Y'all, this book is the BEST kind of ENEMIES to lovers, you know when the FMC tries to undo the MMC in the first few chapters, and the sloooow burn is OFF the charts! It probably wouldn't have been, but Roark (his Penumbriam [first in command]) kept interrupting them!! And the chatter between Lach, his siblings and the other Courts is almost like a soap opera, I just could not stop laughing I'm certain parts. I love Ciara and her relationship with Cate, the sneakiness of Oberon and his sister, and Roark's apparent boredom (is he really bored though?) with everyone. Filthy Rich Fae is absolutely EXQUISITE!!
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