Between Wrath and Mercy (The Divine Between Series)

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The action scenes, the emotion, the magic, the heart to hearts, the friendship, the romance, and the character development were all wonderful. The romance was done beautifully and with second-chance romance always comes the angst and the haunting thoughts of what could or could have been. I find nothing wrong with her seeking comfort during such a time and have someone who could be a supportive presence. Though I did find myself wishing for an Elora pov but I suspect that may be something the author will offer later on.

I was so enthralled with this entire book and pretty much binged it since I didn’t want to put it down. The characters are all in their 30s (hello, relatability), and the heroine is a mom who’s desperate to rescue her daughter who’s been kidnapped. Now, the other plot of this book about the mc's daughter and global politics was really interesting and was the primary focus of the beginning of the book.And then Rainier is everything I love in a hero, protective and caring (even when he’s still mad and hurt), and just so swoony with the little moments. Plenty of diversity while describing people as people and not getting hung up on race or making it a hard point to prove anything. It didn’t matter how wild the magic or imaginative the creature, it was all written so well that it felt as sensible as the trees in the forest. The first book in the series is only from Emma's POV and we feel the heartache, stress and anxiety, and the emotions from all of it while also falling back in love with the only man she ever loved.

I’ll most likely pick it back up again because I do enjoy the characters a lot, but for now I just can’t seem to get through it unfortunately. Sadly, all this promise crumbled (/was smashed to absolute dust) under the weight of poor execution. There hasn’t been another book that’s affected me so emotionally in a long time and I think I’m gonna be in a reading slump for at least a few days.because Emmaline is a healer so she can just mend all the stab wounds) as well as truly disturbing sex scenes in which Rainier is repeatedly described as violently shoving Emmaline into walls, trees, the ground, anything hard because he ~wants her so much. It's realistic but doing it excessively leaves the impression that plus-size women can't feel confident in their own skin.

Emmaline could learn to have a little more manners and some situations could’ve been handled with a little more tact and compassion rather than instant violence, but those were just a couple of minor moments in a long, wonderfully written book. After her daughter is kidnapped, Emmeline Highclere—a thirty-four-year-old mother living in isolation with memories and grief her only companion—must do everything in her limited power and divine abilities to get the girl back. I also wanted to see more of the magic system and how it all worked, which i felt didn't get explained enough for me. There was an ease to reading this that just had my eyes floating across the page, but not because the vocabulary or syntax was juvenile.Never felt rushed and apart from guessing one main plot I really was on the edge of my seat all the way through. I was very interested in some resolution to that but my disappointment outpaced my patience before I could locate anything interesting in the last few chapters relating to the daughter and the growing unrest between neighboring nations, or whatever. Emma then runs to the capital to demand Prince Rainier, her long lost love from decades ago, help her get her daughter back. The only time the overarching plot is resurrected is in the last 20 pages of the book where everything goes to shit just so we can have a [checks notes] 800 page sequel. The female empowerment in this story is fantastic without feeling like it’s fanservice, and the romance is a slow burn that has you falling in love at the same time as the characters.

the individual relationships they all have with each other and all of their group moments were sweet and i loved it. Who the fuck has time to blush, "train" while frolicking in the fields, and have a steamy sesh in a cold lake? It doesn't feel very solid so I still need to understand how it works and what kind of magic abilities are there. Now, Emmeline and Rainier must work together to find the Beloved—to save the girl from the Folterrans and fulfill the prophecy of peace—while they both battle feelings of remorse, grief, and heartbreak, trying to ignore the heated desire and simmering attraction between them that never left. The narration was really good, and I will listen to the be t book as I bought both before I started this one.He could easily flip the switch between being lovingly sweet and raunchy like it's nobody's business. After MC completes her existential crisis, you will get an over abundance of romance including the vomit-inducing term "Dear heart" repeated a thousand times by the MC male. This is a story about a mother hell bent on finding her daughter, learning to trust the people that care about her, and getting a second chance at her own love. I understand that Rainier is a prince and his sister and friends are looking out for him (mostly to avoid heartbreak that something important like.