attention in archeology school. He really doesn't understand his job all that well.

But setting the practicalities aside, I didn't believe these people would be anything more than colleagues and I'm going to say it, Clark's dad was right. You make up a discovery, you're going to get shunned in the scientific community, or get a movie made about you. Or both.

The TL:DR is that this was just not for me. This was light on character and plotting, heavy on the romance (braiding her hair, and baths, and honestly it gave me the icks so I skimmed) aspect which my cold black heart finds cringy.30:T642,What I Liked:
1. The curse breaking - the premise of this is super cool and such a unique idea and I thought it was really well done. I liked that fact this was something that Riley learned and practiced from her Gran and actually tried to give it some validity. I also think the story/detail behind the castle was super interesting. If the curse itself was boring, I think this wouldn’t have been as exciting. Then the actual curse breaking was fun. I liked that Riley was able to find things Clark couldn’t multiple times throughout the book BUT it wasn’t so easy where everything she did was perfect/flawless.

2. Clark standing up to his dad - Always feeling second best or ignored clearly bothered Clark. So seeing him grow and stand up to his father was extremely satisfying.

3. Enemies to lovers - this was well done if you ask me! Clearly they have chemistry but the difference in opinions around the castle causing them to be enemies makes sense. Since they already had the mutual attraction from the beginning AND knowing that there’s a bit of a built-in timeline (aka they’re only together as long as they’re working on the castle), I didn’t mind how quickly they went from enemies to lovers. Some things that also helped the transition were that Clark became more open minded about curse breaking and I don’t think Riley ever really hated Clark.

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