I received an ARC via netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
This book was hard for me to read as a stand alone. I did enjoy the story. I was just lost with the characters to often.

I started reading this book and immediately felt like I was missing something, that continued during different moments of reading this.
People popped in and out without it really being mentioned who they are or how they fit into the organisation.

Also Roman, who are you and what is your story because you make no sense to me.

Overall it needed edited down so it was more cohesive, 3 Stars

I received a free copy of this book via netgalley and am voluntarily leaving a review

This is a difficult book for me to review. On one hand, I really loved the premise and most of the execution was really good. The writing seemed a bit on the poetic side in the prologue but quickly found its proper rhythm.

My only problem was that The Optional Aunt felt like a book in the middle of a series, where you've had 2-3 instalments before this one, that set up the world and the characters that seemed to just be name-dropped without any explanation. I get there's another book before this, but I checked it out and it actually runs parallel with the story unfolding here so I doubt there's more backstory to the side or even main characters.

It took me awhile to roughly understand the dynamics of all the characters (and I still didn't get them all) but I enjoyed this story and I'll definitely be giving The Dangerous Son a go because I was intrigued by the main of that book when I met them in The Optional Aunt.

There's really something here but the chaotic delivery kinda took away some of its shine.

I received an ARC via netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
Okay, i think it was my mistake not to read the description box before i requested the book, but this book is completely out of my alley.
The plot wasn't strong enough for me, Oliver's character wasn't attractive, and rosalie was a whiny child the whole time!!
The inner thoughts of every character were so stretched that it was borderline boring.
Some of the dynamics of the story didn't make sense sometimes, too.
Overall, not a good experience.