If you’re listening to the audiobooks and you speak Russian, I’m sorry. But that is a conversation for another day. Dear authors, I beg of you, consider what your italics are actually doing. And I for one am not a fan of the dialogue of the person on the other end of the phone being in italics.

These books are already over 5 years old, so the non-English words are italicized, but so are numerous other things. And, if you’re reading the books, if you’re like me there will be about 1000% more italics than you like. It sounds absurd here, but it is great in context. Everything is happening straight down to their souls. But also they are falling hopelessly in love, and it’s exactly the kind of rip-your-guts-out declarations that I live for as a romance reader.Īnd I swear I have never heard the word “soul” so much in my life as while I was listening to these books. This series has an exceptional balance of nail-biting stress combined with gut clenching romance.

Okay, so you know how in a trilogy often the protagonist couple has several ups and downs over the course of the trilogy? So technically that’s what happens here, but as we move along there are two other couples who get introduced, and one is a big sub-plot of book two while the other is a big sub-plot of book three, and I was so invested.īut beyond that, having those other storylines gives the reader an additional romance dopamine hit while 1) Ethan and Jack are more and more solid together (by book three they’re mostly just trying to stay alive) and 2) the entire world is literally falling apart (if falling apart means the breakdown of pretty much all political cooperative agreements of the past fifty+ years plus a global terrorist conspiracy).

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