Honestly, I don’t know how to articulate my experience reading this novel. I had so many diametrically opposed feelings about the two main characters, Echo and Adam, and the Omegaverse backdrop of Gatamora. I spent the whole book hating the main characters, the pacing, and the concept, but I also couldn’t stop reading.
My biggest issue was probably the pacing. I hated how suspense and anticipation was built up for big moments only to fall flat or have the storyline skip over the event entirely. There were times when I felt like I was missing a chapter because chunks of the story that were built up to be important by the characters were MIA like the reader was not privy to those moments. These really contributed to a disconnected feeling from the story and prevented me from really being able to get swept up in it.
I spent most of the book unable to decide if I liked Adam or not— and the same goes for Echo for the most part— because of the hot and cold way he treated Echo and other people in his life. There were moments when he made me swoon and others where he would be unfathomably disrespectful in a way that gave me the major ick. Even Echo swapped between being badass and weepy in a way that had me breaking my neck.
Overall, I thought the world-building was pretty interesting. While this isn’t the first Omegaverse work I’ve ever read, it is definitely the one that treats the concept in the most rudimentary way. It almost at some points feels like Omegaverse is used as a vehicle for modern-day misogyny despite the advanced way in which certain aspects of the world are described and with the controversy surrounding the trope, I think this just missed the mark entirely.
Two out of five stars.
Paging Kait 