This book made me angrier than any book has ever. I dislike Adele and Nicco so much and I’m so infuriated it’s like they’re honeymooning in my head resort fee-free.
Isaac fucked up in book 3 (in a very ACOTAR, but out of nowhere way) but more than made up for it by going to the underworld, getting a scolding/attitude adjustment by Susannah, giving Nicco blood and taking Mac’s parasite soul and Adele still goes home with Nicco?
Honestly, Adele is the worst. She’s an immature 16 year old who thinks she can mediate the end of a centuries old blood feud just by finding Leon.
I think my favorite parts of this book are when Adele promises Nicco that nothing in his past could change how she feels about him and when he comes clean about killing Adeline, she’s like “I gotta go”; and when she spends 10 minutes convincing Nicco that he’s “a lamb” and she knows he’ll never hurt her so he’ll drink from her and the second his teeth come near her neck she’s like “Nicco, no!”
And why does the whole Coven act like Adele can do no wrong when she doesn’t trust any of them to help her and acts like they’re useless to her? She’s a bad friend.
She decides to run off in the middle of getting her dad home to give him a magical handjob in the bell tower while ignoring all of her coven’s emergency phone calls.
Adele was so reckless after Callis kidnapped Mac but now that he’s possessed she just leaves him at Dee’s and goes home to have sexy time with Nicco?
If Nicco is endgame I’m going to be furious. He’s a 400 year old vamp obsessed with a 16 year old. When a 30 year old dude gave her eyes at the bar, Adele was like “gross” but 400 years? Yes please!

Will I read book 5? Yes. Will I be happy? Probably not.

If you haven't read the other books in this series, go read them first and in order, otherwise, the magic will be lost. The series is mildly like Twilight, but also different. There are witches and way more diversity and representation.

It is an emotional rollercoaster. This book switches between four different characters' points of view and in an alternating fashion. This does add to the rollercoaster effect since there are several cliffhangers throughout the book. But, I also loved seeing the plot through all four pairs of eyes and I haven't read many other books that do that as well as Alys. It's so very cleverly woven together.

The friendship between Desiree, Codi, and Isaac is lovely and reminds me of the golden trio in Harry Potter. #DreamTeam

Loved all the voodoo magic, the fantastical scenes within Guinea, and folks in the afterlife giving love advice to some of the living characters. There are several beautifully written descriptions that flow rather well with the story. #Magic

This love triangle is SO intense. I can’t even... I find myself being equally annoyed and adoring of both Nicco and Isaac...the suspense. Though I like that it is STILL up in the air. lol.

I am rather excited for the fifth book!

Set in magical New Orleans with all hosts of supernatural characters. It took me a bit longer to get into this one, I think in part because of the multiple POV chapters that are labeled by their magical symbols instead of the characters names. Sometimes it took me a few pages into a new chapter to shift gears and realize whose perspective I was in, but once I really got going all of that fell away. As always, I was captivated by the magical world & in this case, the magical underworld or afterworld. The few days I went really hard on this book I had the wildest dreams. At times I felt a little underwhelmed by the continued will-they won't-they of the love triangle, but other than that, this was a solid follow-up to the other books in the series.

Every book is better than the last. The secrets, the reveals, the magic, the character development, the cliffhangers. I really cannot wait for the final book.

my fellow Nicco fans - this one's for us. thanks, Alys.

I really enjoyed this newest installment in the Casquette Girls' series. I loved the MCs' ventures into the Afterword to hunt the Ghost Drinkers and rescue Adele's dad. I loved how the MCs' got to see their ancestors and dead relatives and we got a glimpse into various cultures and backgrounds that make up New Orleans- Native American, African American, Italian, and French. It makes me want to visit New Orleans again and explore the cultural references made in these books.

I was a little disappointed to find out the author plans to release one more book in the series. This book was released in January 2021 and we still don't have a release date for the 5th and final. I hate when books are published that far apart. It'll be hard to keep your fanbase.

I’m so disappointed because I thought book 4 was the end but now I have to wait for who knows how long until book 5! That being said, I wouldn’t care if the book wasn’t so good.