Scarlett Dawn

As is my style, let's get right to pointing out flaws and complaining about it.

This review contains mild spoilers that imo don't diminish the reading experience but if you want to go in completely blind, reading reviews is probably not the smartest move anyway.

Early on there is a scene where someone forces people to spew secrets with his powers as a demonstration of his powers. The kinds of secrets he lets people spill are completely inappropriate and his last attempt is totally unacceptable but apparently everyone is just fine with that for some reason. I think the author forgot that those characters didn't know each other well at that point yet which made their reactions feel out of whack.

There is a quad friendship that suffers from multiple very cringy and melodramatic confession of friendship scenes and the like.
So if you can't take things similar to "I really love you all, you are my best friends, *tears up*. Friend answers: I really love you all too." or "I would die for you all." and worse, you might want to skip this one. It's a bit much in places and its not just one scene either.

At one point important people think that two characters have a culturally scorned love affair even tho they are not shagging but apparently, they can not explain this for fear of the truth of why they were caught in these compromising positions being revealed. (That was a bad sentence, sorry.) That at least is what the Author tries to sell us but if you think about it for just a minute a perfectly reasonable explanation that is close enough to the truth to pass by any lie detection ability (which is a prominent thing) is obvious and relatable. In fact, the feared truth detection paradoxically makes this explanation perfectly workable. Luckily the misunderstanding™ didn't become relevant at least not in this book. I mention this flaw because this conflict receives a LOT of page-time while being easily solvable all that time which was frustrating.

Another problematic thing is that the supernatural community is assaulted by extremist non-magical humans repeatedly and is apparently completely unable to defend itself properly which I just find bonkers. They are so incredibly powerful and have virtually unlimited financial resources at their disposal and their apparent elite protection is a constant topic but despite all that they get ripped to shreds by frontal attacks etc. that never in a thousand years should've been possible.
I really hope it turns out the attackers had massive help from moles and traitors within to pull these attacks off (but there were no indications anywhere in this book afaict). Otherwise, this completely compromises the core of the plot.
/rant off

Final thoughts:
I really hope the next volumes don't confirm my fears of these flaws but I am a bit disillusioned at this point because I almost never have seen a redeeming second book in these kinds of situations. It's usually the opposite. You only realize how bad it really is in the second one.

Ignoring all the maybe-flaws I can recommend this to romance and friendship fans in a paranormal setting. Sadly the end is very much open and cliffhangery so I wouldn't recommend reading this as a standalone.
Before writing this review I was tempted to give this 4 stars. I enjoyed it very much but after writing all these problems down I can not in good conscience do so.

(Btw there only is an audiobook of the first book.)… (meer)

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