The potential was there - the execution was not.
Sigh. I was so excited for this one. I really wanted to love it. I just couldn't. It had all the stuff that could have made it great - French revolution, hot M/M action, enemies to lovers. But the execution failed the potential.
👎 What I Disliked 👎
Plot: The idea of the plot was interesting. Two adversaries meet in Paris during the Terror of Robespierre and fall in love in spite of their different sides. Throw in a little intrigue, revolution and treason and you have a dynamite story, right? Wrong! At least not in this case. The plot was thinner than broth pretending to be soup. Also, the same thing happened over and over again. The two main characters, Perrin and Henri, kept having the same conversation over and over and over. It grew tiresome real quick.
Perrin: At the start of this novel Perrin was grieving for his lost lover, Julien. But when he met Henri, somehow he became the aggressor. It was like Julien was forgotten. He was the one who teased, pushed and made innuendos. It jarred. It felt wrong.
Lust: These two men are deep in lust! Also at really random, inappropriate and obscene times. About to die? Lust! About to be caught? Lust! About to witness an execution? Lust! Friend is caught and thrown in jail? Lust! It was just too much and too weird.
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ARC provided by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
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