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 Such disappointment. Wow. 
 I'm SO NOT HAPPY with King Cave. I went from King Hall, which was AWESOME, to this...this...WHAT DID I JUST READ???? I couldn't put it down but honestly, I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because EVERYTHING TURNED TO SMUT! 
 I. Don't. Mind. Smut. I promise. That's what Bookdictive After Dark is for! But...there's just...I mean, HAVE YOU READ OUTLANDER? That's a six-thousand page (not really but it's like Song of Ice and Fire long){ book, with smut, but that's not the only thing! There's substance, there's history, there's SOME FREAKING ACTION. 
 We ended King Hall with a war starting between the Commoners and the Mys. Okay, I'll bite. Not that I think Americans are stupid enough (though we are, of course, rather ignorant sometimes) to start a war with a bunch of magical people, but like, I'll buy into this. Okay, our main characters escape to a magical hidden cave? Sounds like a good idea, lets not get killed. 
 This is when it got biblical: They traveled through the ocean in a magical bubble to escape harm. I'm sure Jonah and the whale floated by at some point, but everyone got batshit crazy claustrophobic so nobody was paying attention. Also, BFFS FOR REAL DON'T SAY OTHERWISE Lily and Ezra are, once again, entangled around one another to maintain their sanity, but totally ignoring the fact that Ezra's mom is in the bubble too. 
 They escape, they make it to King Cave, and then.............. 
 They just stay there. 
 They sometimes go outside to the woods, but..... 
 They stay there. 
 Just living life. 
 And by life I mean TORRID SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS. 
 Forget everything you know about characters being modest. Forget family lines that shouldn't be crossed, because no matter the age or role of a character, they will talk about their favorite sexual relationships, being naked, more sex, and groping. Lots of groping. 
 The scenes are written well, but all of this *waves hand* extra stuff? No. No. HOW IS NOBODY THAT CONCERNED WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD? THE IMPENDING WAR? ANYTHING?????????? 
 95% of this book is Ezra and Lilly sex. There's some SPOILER BUT NOT REALLY BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE IT COMING FROM A MILE AWAY Pearl and Jack sex. 
 THAT'S ANOTHER THING. Pearl and Jack. What made the first book so great was the bond between the four, but this book BARELY mentions Pearl and Jack. You don't see them for most of the book, and then all of the sudden, they're doing it in the giant bed that they all creepily have sex in when the other couple isn't there. I felt like I was in this germ-ridden bed the whole time because that's where they were most of the time. How nobody but the Elders really figured out about the couples is mind boggling. 
 It gets a little Twilight. It bothered me. It's just so...lusty. So much lust. I wanted Ezra and Lilly to happen. But be careful what you wish for, because the entire story will disappear and you'll be left with lots of "BABY!" and "SWEETHEART!" (and ew, why sweetheart?? Is he a Southern gentleman from the Civil War? A Montrose drag queen??)