4.5 sexy fly away stars! 
 What a fun read! This was such a coming home for me. I needed a good PR book to whet my appetite after not having any luck the past few months and this worked. I felt the writing and overall tone was a big step up from Gena's recent work. This wasn't perfect and there were a few things that I had problems with but I couldn't put this down and found myself absorbed a good 85% of the story. 
 What I loved: 
 Can you blame me? The sexy time was off the charts. I really felt like I was reading Gena's earlier work with all the sensual play and dirty talk. Delicious! I was all a quiver. I'm a sucker for a man who gives the headboard a serious workout. Yes. Good gravy Thane. *fans self* I was honestly impressed with the love scenes and playful sexy banter between Thane and Elin. Nothing was held back and it played in line to who Thane is with all his varying sexual appetites. This was something I was worried would be toned down or missing but thankfully it wasn't. I also appreciated the fact that Gena didn't have Thane going mine mine mine! 20 pages in. The push and pull, both of them trying really hard to fight off the attraction between them and deny it was very refreshing and much more realistic, especially for Thane. 
 Thane was another surprise for me. He never really impressed me before this, I found him too cliche with the playboy attitude, dark tortured past and gorgeous fallen angel looks. But good gravy, this guy is sex on a fucking stick. He compelled me, seduced me and lured me in with his presence, dominating attitude and those gorgeous wings. He's a wonderful package of domineering and arrogant yet tender and super protective and so playful. Take me baby and call me kulta, love him! And I was a little obsessed with his wings. So sexy and pushed all the right buttons for me. What I love is Gena's attention to detail to her world building, every nuance to how these Sent Ones move and work with their wings is wonderfully captured and very accurate & realistic. I could picture everything so clearly. From using it to protect others, to flirt, to show dominance or excitement with just a ruffle of their wings I found very enthralling and so damn adorable and sexy. Another thing that I found addicting was Thane's PAs. Not a big fan of those myself but good lord he carries it so well- those barbells drove me insane. As for Elin, I liked her. She's sweet, fun, compassionate and pretty innocent in contrast to Thane's world. What did bug me however was her sometimes quick knee jerk reactions to certain things. I found it dramatic and tiring near the end. 
 Which comes to my only hold up and part of the reason I straddled between a 4-5 star rating. What didn't work for me was the super sappy dialogue and the silly contrived tension in the second half of the book. Gena loves her girl power ass kicking heroines and that's fine. I just think she tends to get carried away with the 'crazmazing' gab talk and the gushy lovey dovey talk. In fact it's more prominent now more than before. I don't remember the dialogue being like this in the beginning of her LOTU series. The females come off more like High school cliques rather than thousand year old immortals and adults. Ok technically Elin is 21, pretty young but still....the cutesy talk got a little too heavy handed in the end. And the constant misunderstandings and the flip flopping Elin does in the second half was the most frustrating thing of all and made my head hurt. Way too much. This girl was one confused emotional mess after the couple's first big fight. Her 0 to 100 reactions to every single misunderstanding I found a bit bratty and schoolyard worthy. Dissecting every little thing a guy does or doesn't do can only go so far. And stomping around huffing and puffing and throwing attitude around suited for a 15 year old isn't very cute and just asking for a slap. This to me is my biggest complaint with Gena's writing, other than that I love her characters and world building and her sexy alpha heroes. When it was all said and done the world building and overall storyline bumped up the rating. Thankfully none of the 'we must bond & be married before having sex' happened here. (Yes I noticed that Elin didn't sleep with her fiance until after they got married, caught you there Gena). But still it gives me hope that she isn't attached to this new formula and is willing to change things up again. 
 Looking forward to seeing who gets a story next! Xerxes, Bjorn or Axel? 
 *And shout out to Window Seat on a Rainy Day book blog for my ARC copy of this. Thanks so much! :)*