you not only read those interactions again, but get to hear how he feels about everything and I really enjoyed it. Before I realized this was a Cas POV I was thinking about rereading the first book anyways so it worked out well for me.

You start the story off in their real time after the battle, but when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas fears the possibility that unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could take her away from him and Kieran. She may wake and not remember the people who she loves most including who she is bonded to.

In an effort to try and keep Poppy’s memories alive Cas talks to her while she sleeps. How their journey began, revealing things about himself that only Kieran knows, and how he was feeling from the beginning when he first met her at the Red Pearl.

If you are someone who hates POV books, maybe it’s not for you, but there are a few tidbits you will want to know before the next book. It should be easy enough to skip over repeat information if that’s the case.30:T496,
This book is like a highlight reel of the first in the series with about 100 pages of actual plot to gear up for the next book.

While I thought the premise of Casteel’s POV was exciting, this book didn’t quite hit the mark. There were maybe 100 pages of actual plot and then flashbacks that are almost identical in the first book. I was hoping Cas would go into other segments of his life to maybe explain his childhood or Shea or rewind to before he went to the city and met Poppy. None of that happened. I also expected more branching off of plot away from Poppy to build on top of the foundation already laid. It also missed the mark for me there.

While his POV did have moments of non-repetitiveness, for someone like me who binged the series just before release and had everything fresh in my head, this didn’t do much for me.

The ending does leave me excited for the next in the series, though, and I don’t regret getting this book. It just read much

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