I grabbed Audiobooks for examples on romance scenes women can enjoy. This book was a freebie, not my main listen. The book gets interesting around chapter 25. By today's technical standpoint, the writing is mediocre. Though, I personally prefer extensive exposition. I'm not sure the demographic for the romance scenes. If it were one or two, they can be brushed off, but they happened every other hour. I gave my wife a listen to five of them. They do nothing for either of us, not romantically nor theatrically. This could all be ignored for a 5-star review due to the story. However, there is so much world building being ignored. So many hints to amazing wonders that is set aside for the main narrative of internal disdain. I could easily get lost in this world if it were not for the obvious injections of destructive theology and the anti-climactic end screaming, "women don't need no man!" In fact, the protagonist does shout that in the book, rephrased. One lost star due to uninspired, frequent romance scenes, and one star lost due to net negative ideology. The book would have had the same impact or better if those aspects were removed. I would have enjoyed more fantastical scenes with the protagonist's alchemical prowess and magical skill with descriptive exposition and dramatic scenery, and less of the two other aspects.

I loved diving into Wren and Torj's story! The banter between them is hilarious and the writing is just incredible. The emotional roller-coaster through this book had me hanging on for dear life. One page, I'm laughing so hard that tears are streaming down my face then 10 pages later I'm heartbroken! I'm anxiously awaiting the release of the next book, and the wait is painful!

I'm conflicted, and so 3 stars it is. Wonderful story, deep characters, but that ending hurt my heart.

I enjoyed aspects of this book but I also found that it fell short in a few ways. When I love a book I feel sad when it ends. In case of this book, I was okay with it. I don’t feel compelled to read the sequel.

Good first book, I echo some of the other authors, it was extremely romancy and it appears the climax of what the author was trying to achieve is a climax from the lead charachters. It's a shame when the fight scenes and exploration of other characters were so good smh. Additionally, multiple narration are often not good...this was ok but still like to hear one perspective not two as it could expand more around one central character.

I had first listened to the Fate & Furies series. I thought it was a continuum of that saga, so i was pleased to see it was about Wren and Torj. I was sad at the end that she hadn't been given all the facts. Looking forward to the next book and the continuing saga. Well written and a new favorite author for me.

I chose this book because I enjoy sappy romance novels when I’m taking a break from reading dense literature for my studies, however this was not “soft romance”. I was taken aback when the first ‘intimate’ scene played through as it was completely unexpected and a little over the top. I’m taking my jaw DROPPED. If that’s your thing, this book is full of it. I’m talking their intimate life is the main plot of the book. If you prefer the romance to be more of a side-plot and subtle like I do, then this cover may not be for you. That being said, the pacing of the book is nice and I found myself unable to leave it unfinished and finished it rather quickly.

Kind of slow.. should have listened to the Legends of Thezmarr first.

great story can't wait to listen to book 2!!

Too "Romance" and not enough story.

I was so glad to see the thermal series continue. Anxiously waiting for the second book. The narrators were ok.

loved it!

I throughly enjoyed the story of Wren and Torj

Such a great story and the character chemistry was on fire.

FYI this is NOT this first book, there’s a whole other series before this one, so lots of spoilers for that series in this book. I mostly liked this book but did not like the ending - but that could just be me, I hate it when people sacrifice without asking their beloved if it’s what they want. Really just a setup for the next book.

Love this can't wait for next book

It’s was okay, I finished it, but definitely felt very slow and dragged on most of the book.

I think the book is good but the narrator makes it difficult to get through this book. hopefully I will get through it

Got confused at times because this seems to be another continuation of a previous series

Love it ♥️

I liked the story but there were times it jumped around so much it was hard to keep track of. All in all a good read.

Narration was so bad I gave up listening. What I did listen to, sounded like a romance novel.

The story is fine .I had to stop listening because of male narrator . I’m struggling with second embarrassing for the male characters of this book.

The story was predictable and contrived…I tried to finish it but halfway through was the best I could stomach.

The audio is terrible but this book is great; the female sounds like it’s animated, the guy wasn’t as bad but still sounded fake at parts. Legends audio was much better.