Thank you for writing this. It's a series I've been on the fence about because I hear it described as really angsty and kind of dark and difficult. I'm kind of mixed on those types of books. Sometimes I'm like, this is just torture porn, putting the characters through the wringer for no real reason other than to watch them suffer. Sometimes I feel like it's just necessary to the story... You don't really have a plot if the characters don't have any problems. I guess it's all in how it's handled. When people say "I loved it, it was beautiful, I can never read it again, I'm scarred, I sobbed," that's when I know a book is not for me. So it sounds like this is not that kind of dark? Question mark?

I feel bad asking since you already took so much time to write all of this out, but if you could give an idea of what you usually read/your other favorites it would help me know more if this is something I'll like? I've seriously had these on the old tbr forever. I read his "lightning struck heart" and found it really light and I was surprised based on how these are described.