Reviews and Comments

This was a sweet, easy, hopeful story, perfect for any souls who are feeling particularly lost. Much like the tea monks that are discussed frequently in its pages, this book helps you let go of your struggles, and simply breathe for a little bit, maybe even smile a few times if you’re particularly enjoying yourself.

I was not a huge fan of If He Had Been With me, I felt like all the characters and story had a lot of wasted potential. But this book USED that potential! I think the fact that it had 3 different perspectives helped immensely, and though I’ve heard some people criticize the writing style of this book, I thought it was very flowery and pretty. I love these characters to death, I love how their forgiveness to each other was the thing that tied the whole story together, and gave most everyone a hopeful ending. That is a wonderful message to put into the world, especially in a story like this.

This was what can only be described as a spiritual experience. This series is not high quality, refined literature. But I literally don’t care:) Every character, every slightly cringey word out of Kai’s mouth, and all the weird ass plot twists just made me love this book even more. I feel more connected to these characters than some people I know in real life, and the amount I cried during this book is embarrassing. Simply a masterpiece.

I LOVE all this new Covey lore. Lucy Gray and Lenore Dove are both my mystic little sweethearts, love them like all-fire as they would say:) I don’t quite think this book is really that properly connected to the original series, though it does heavily connect to Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. It would be 5 stars if not for the odd disconnect between this and the og trilogy but overall, a very beautiful and heartbreaking piece of literature.

This was absolutely incredible!! The wild and random plot threads through out the book were my perfect kind of batshit crazy and all the characters have my heart forever. Emily Henry is 100% my favorite romance writer currently, I don’t know what she’s sprinkling into the pages of her books, but it’s wonderful. One of the easiest 5 star ratings of my life, loved every second.

This was a good mix of heartfelt family connection and good old-fashioned YEARNING. Not life changing, and it took me a while it finish it. Some of the characters I feel like could have been fleshed out more, and Florence gave me some Liz Buxaum vibes at times traumatic flashback but overall pretty solid and entertaining romance novel.

This was WAY too high fantasy for my tiny little brain. The romance was cute, the lore was fire, the maps were beautiful, Jase has rizz. But I had 0 idea what was going on in this book most of the time, and sometimes I was just like “here for the vibes” but other times i was so lost I considered DNFing (a war crime) soooo very mixed bag.

This series keeps getting better and better. I appreciate that the love triangle is FINALLY resolved in this book, so we can just have a cute little romance sub-plot (which btw I think was actually really incredibly written I know YA romances can be shallow but I think this one was wonderful.) And the plot just went all sorts of crazy in the last 150 pages, but I’m so here for it. 4.5 stars! I love this series to death, it’s so readable. Definitely a rec for people still getting in to reading!

My best explanation for why this book didn’t work for me is as follows. I think How High We Go In The Dark was meant to be consumed by me in a slow intellectual manner, while sipping a cup of earl gray tea as I take the time to read a couple pages every day. Intstead I rage-read this in around 24 hours while inhaling a package of Oreos. That may be a bad explanation to why this genuinely beautiful book just won’t click in my brain, but it is the only reasoning I seem to have.

LETS BE CLEAR. By no stretch is Josh anything other than a massive red flag. But like…I was over here kicking my feet like “WHAT he’s not stalking her for over a year and threatening to kill anyone who looks at her?” (Cough cough Alex from the first book) The parts of the story that didn’t center around the romance I also thought were really well done and somewhat interesting. So I think just because Josh wasn’t pulling an Alex Volkov and because the B plot kinda slayed here I am giving it 3 stars. The bar is in hell for this book series, truly. (I’m probably gonna read the 4th one🥲)

Taking a break bc Bunny was making me slump and reading possibly the dumbest book in existence instead😀

This was so cute! Beautiful illustrations along with some things that I will 100% take with me as I continue to traverse through life❤️