“A monster will forever be a monster. But even the most violent of beasts can be brought to heel.”

The only reason I’m slightly torn on how to go about reviewing this book is strictly my own fault. After reading Serenading Heartbreak and hearing about this book, I knew I needed to get my hands on another one of EF’s novels. However, they are so drastically different from one another, I probably should’ve put one book between the two.

That being said, it didn’t take me long to get hooked. Opal is just a princess in a kingdom who was forced to stay in the shadows and live out the purpose her parents had bestowed upon her. She did so with a grace that was admiring, however she had that drive and fire in her, that want to do more than what was planned for her, that I loved. Who doesn’t love a little bit of disobedience?

Dade is a lost, broken soul who was raised for the sole purpose to create destruction and leave loss, death, and misery in his path. It was all he knew, the only thing that had ever coursed through his veins, and he filled the shoes of what was expected of him with a vengeance that wasn’t entirely his own.

“My lovely swan, my bittersweet nemesis, I’m beginning to fear there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you.”

I’ve had a few people I discussed this book with ask me if it was an enemies to lovers story and part of me wants to say yes while the other part of me feels like it’s a little more complicated, not as easy to describe, as that.

Opal and Dade were fated, destined to be together. They have this pull, this connection, that was made from the stars and they couldn’t fight it even if they tried. However, their family names, the fact she’s a swan and he’s the king of the wolves, makes things more difficult than either of them had planned.

Their interactions had a grin on my face for most of the story. Whether it was out of how much they made my heart swell or it was a sly smile on my face, I don’t think it disappeared for much of the story. When that wasn’t happening, I was experiencing all the other emotions; frustration, anger, sadness. Once again, Ella Fields knocked this one out of the park.

I loved their love, enjoyed how long it took them to actually get there even though, in reality, it didn’t take them long at all. When the going got tough, they didn’t leave each other no matter how much their duty was telling them to do otherwise. To be elsewhere. They couldn’t.

This has been one of my favorite fantasy stories in a while and I won’t lie, I really hope she decides to make a second book because I would absolutely love to read more about Dade and Opal. While this story was tied up rather well, had an ending I was happy with, she left it open for the possibility of another novel and I am hoping that becomes the case.

If it is, I know I’ll be one of the first to get my hands on it.