“Unique, dark, edgy, and real.” Pain and hatred consume Tarik, the hot-headed Fae whose addiction to fighting shifters could be the death of him. Stuck in a city ruled by dragons, seeking vengeance is his only mission. As a shifter, and the city’s Night Enforcer, Reagan’s job is to stop him. She quickly learns that trouble follows him at every turn, and keeping him alive leads her to make … decisions that may have deadly consequences. When a disastrous event forces these long-standing enemies to unravel a sinister plot, prejudice must be pushed aside. And lurking beneath the hatred is something neither of them are prepared for. Discover Nathra City’s darkest secret in this enemies-to-lovers, New Adult Urban Fantasy Adventure Romance, perfect for fans of Jennifer L Armentrout and Sarah J Maas.
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Dawn till Dusk by Becky Moynihan is a really awesome story that I have read. This is book number one out of two in this awesome series and I can not wait to read the next book I am so hooked on this series I loved this book. I highly recommend this story to everyone who loves reading about fantasy and paranormal romances in their stories.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This was a fantastic new urban fantasy the characters are vivid and well done and the world-building really draws you in and flows well is is very well balanced and makes senses not only with the overall story-line but the characters as well.
Dawn till Dusk is a forbidden romance between an angry Fae, and a feisty shifter but it is also a slow burn which I vastly prefer over insta-luv. The slow burn feels much more natural and believable and this story really has all the feels…
I will definitely be looking for more books by this author. I received this book via Booksprout for an honest review.
*I received an eARC from the author(s). This does not affect my review.*
Rating: 4.5 stars
TRIGGER WARNING AT THE BOTTOM
This one’s a little tricky for me to rate, for entirely personal reasons, haha. So let me start where I normally end my review. I loved reading this, and from early on I couldn’t get enough of the characters and loved the world-building and lore as the story progressed! The back-stories, okay so they are dark, but I loved them, and look forward to getting a little more of the history both about characters, and their species/homeland as I know both promise to be interesting! Now, for the harder part of the review, haha. While I loved the story, I actually didn’t ‘connect’ to any of the characters until about halfway though, I loved both POVs, and could both relate to Reagan in ways, and understand Tarik’s inner turmoil, but a little after that halfway point, something changed, and I loved it! That moment when you finally reach a point that the characters stand out, and only in their story, but you start to realize they are some of you favorite characters from….well most any story? YES!!! I LOVE that feeling, and this one had it! So not only did I fully enjoy the story overall, but I also can’t wait to read more of this series soon, and am so excited to tell others about it! The only reason I didn’t give 5 solid stars is that it did take a while to get into the story, and I also have no doubt that the rest of the series will continue to get better, the best ones always do! ;D
Trigger Warnings: [ Trigger warnings: [Child harm / death, reference to sexual assault, parental abuse, self-harm, suicidal idealization]
I received an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
Dawn Till Dusk is a New Adult Urban Fantasy Romance novel, book 1 in the series.
Also, I thought I should let you know that Urban Fantasy is a pretty hard genre for me to get into. Now that that’s said, let’s get to this review.
Book Cover: 4* – Now, I’m not a big fan of photo stock book covers for a few reasons, but after learning that one of the authors did it herself, I thought it actually came out really nice. The characters on the cover for the most part look like how they are described in the book. Plus it’s purple, I love purple lol.
Summary/Tagline: 3* – It’s good. It got me curious enough to want to know what the story entails, but knowing that this is a romance story too, I assumed that both Reagan and Tarik would most definitely end up together, how? Probably something bad would bring the two together, knowing the authors lol. I will also make sure not to reveal any spoilers in this review.
Characters: 3* – We follow two characters in this story. Reagan, a female shifter that can turn into a winged white lion, and Tarik, a male fae who is heavily brooding, angry, and knows magic(trigger warning for suicide attempts and thoughts). Either character is written by each of the authors respectfully(I’ll get into this more in the story section). Out of the two characters, I connected to Reagan a hell of a lot faster than I did Tarik. Reagan is spunky, strong, caring, and has quite the patience to put up with Tarik for the beginning part of the book. Tarik . . . was unfortunately a pretty predictable character. I think I connected with him by the end, but I wasn’t sure, and I did predict his tragic backstory when he brought it up cryptically in a way in either chapter 1 or 2. When his past does reveal itself, showing why he’s so angry and wanting death so badly, I actually blurted out, “Yeah I called it.” Speaking of tragic pasts, Reagan’s backstory, or I guess her life situation with her step family, I’m sure this was a coincidence, but her abusive relationship with Reagan’s stepfather Mordecai(the antagonist of the book) is pretty similar to a character written by one of the authors from another book series, and no it wasn’t the one that wrote Reagan’s chapters. Like I said, I’m sure it was a coincidence. Now speaking of Reagan’s step family. Mordecai and Alec, oooooh trigger warning for abuse(physical and emotional), torture, and assault(physical and sexual). Mordecai is the worst, even though he’s a bit of a little b**** and Alec is just a nasty creep. There are a few supporting characters throughout this book, some I like, a few I rolled my eyes in annoyance, and others I feel like weren’t around enough to warrant much opinions on just yet.
World Building: 2* – I didn’t realize there was a character limit, so here’s a link to my full review on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3248024071
Story: 3* – You know what, I’m actually pretty surprised how separate the romance is from the story’s plot. There is no, “Oh I know things are happening around us and we could die, but we need to talk about our feelings NOW!” That gets really annoying, really fast in romance stories, but this story remains focused which was nice. When it comes to the action scenes, that’s where the character’s focus on to survive fights and challenges they didn’t expect. Yes there are a few moments where one of the main characters saves the other, but it only happens a few times throughout the book, and when it comes to down time, that is when we focus on more character/story driven moments. I can also tell the difference between one author’s writing style over the other author, but I thought their style meshed pretty well together. It wasn’t super obvious nor distracting. Now, there is one trope that I didn’t really see played out in the manner that it is meant for and that is the enemies/hate to lovers trope. The hatred felt pretty one sighted as only Tarik didn’t like shifters while Reagan wanted to help faes. I only see hatred more coming from shifters to faes than the other way around, or even equal amounts, but I didn’t see that trope utilized much, if at all. Not to mention Tarik gets over his hatred of shifters pretty fast because of Reagan, so I REALLY didn’t get this hatred/enemies to lovers trope in this book. The reason this story gets three stars and not more is mainly because the story was good, it just didn’t do much more for me. There was a twist near the end that involved Reagan which I can’t wait for these two authors to explore in future books, but that’s it. Everything else was pretty predictable.
Over All: 3.5* – This took me a while to figure out, but in my honest opinion, this story was a good one, unfortunately, I liked one main character way more than the other and because there was so little world information in this story, it distracted me quite a bit. I had too many questions left unanswered by the end and I found many parts of this story predictable, but entertaining. I do look forward to reading more of this story, and I will recommend this story for those who want a fun, simple fantasy story with a nice, slow burn romance. I will probably make this 4 stars because half stars are not a thing apparently lol, but the story was interesting enough to round up to 4 stars instead of just an average 3 stars.
*** I’m volunteering to review this arc ***
Reagan is lion shifter and the night enforcer. Tarik is a fae and hates shifters. Tarik way of working his hatred for shifters was to fight at The Pit. One night Tarik won a fight and was thrown out of The Pit, he was jumped by some shifters. He was almost beaten to death. Reagan comes to help him and nurses him back to health. Not that he was grateful for the help. He ends up working for adaptive fathers mines. Reagan thinks something isn’t right. She and Tarik have to figure out what’s going on? Will they continue to fight there attraction for each other?
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.