NMmomof4's Reviews > The Savage and the Swan

2.5 Stars

Opinion Breakdown
The Good: The premise

The Not-So-Good: The ending was cute but not the best.

The Bad: The lack of connection to anything (mcs, their connection, side characters, world, etc)

Overall: This was disappointing. I felt like it was just a ACOTR ripoff...and not in a good way. I'm fine with authors taking inspiration from other authors, because I think that just happens. But this was hard to follow or at least get into at first because the world wasn't presented in a smooth way -- enough that I was even wondering if I missed a book at one point. I just didn't feel the connection between the mcs and they didn't have hardly any enjoyable side characters to relate to either. I struggled to finish this tbh and I'm sad I'm in the minority yet again.

Brief Summary of the Storyline: This is Opal and Dade's story. There is a war going on and it is between the two types of fae and, as a strategy to get more military help, Opal's dad offers her hand in marriage to a human prince. Only the other fae attacks and things go wrong. Opal finds herself with the other fae's king and they are connected in an unexpected way. There are some suspenseful scenes, some sexy times, and some big changes...and they get a HEA ending.

Point Of View (POV): This alternated between Opal and Dade's POV.

Overall Pace of Story: Good for the most part. I did skim some, but that was mostly because I was bored.

Instalove: No, but (view spoiler)[they find that they are mated pretty quickly (hide spoiler)]

H (Hero) rating: 3 stars. Dads. He was just okay ig 🤷🏻‍♀️

h (heroine) rating: 3 stars. Opal. She was just okay too.

Sadness level: Low, no tissues needed

Push/Pull: Yes (view spoiler)[ the h pushes away a good bit and I'd say the H is the main pursuer of the relationship (hide spoiler)]

Heat level: Food. They have some good tension, chemistry, and scenes -- but not so much it takes away from the story.

Descriptive sex: Yes

OW (Other Woman)/OM (Other Man) drama: Yes (view spoiler)[ there is an OM that pursues the h and kisses her and (view spoiler)[attempts to rape her (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

Sex scene with OW or OM: No

Cheating: No

Separation: No

Possible Triggers: Yes (view spoiler)[Violence/kidnapping/attempted rape/murder/loss of a loved one (on page) and they are both virgins (on page) (hide spoiler)]

Closure: This ends in a good place and with what I would call a HEA ending (view spoiler)[they're married and she's pregnant (hide spoiler)]

Safety: This one should be Safe for most safety gang readers
(view spoiler)[
- Does Not have cheating
- Does Not have a descriptive sex scene with OW/OM
- Does have the h pushing the H away
- Does Not have a separation between the h and H
- Does Not have abuse by mcs
- Does have a HEA ending (hide spoiler)]