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𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿: Kate Stewart✍🏻
𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁: Flock 415📖 Exodus 450📖The Finish Line 539 📖
THE QUICK AND DIRTY
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲:🌶️🌶️🌶️.5
𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗽𝘀: ~6 years / 11 Years
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 5/5
𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁: 16/5
𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 5/5
𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴: 5/5
𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 10/5
𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀: Is emotional devastation a mood? 🫠
𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: Trilogy 📚
𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲: HAE
𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀: Story-wise? None. Emotional devastation-wise? Anything by Jennifer Hartmann.
𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲: Book 1 & 2 – Single POV, Book 3 Dual POV
“𝙒𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨, 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙚, 𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙮?”
TROPES
🐦⬛ Enemies to Lovers
❤️ Why Choose
🐦⬛ Secret Societies
💙 Found Family
🐦⬛ Female Rage
💚 Brotherhood
🐦⬛ Small Town
❤️ Morally Grey MMC
🐦⬛ Possessive MMC
💙 Forbidden Love
🐦⬛ Second Chance Romance
💚 Wounded Hero
𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲’𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂.
This is my second time reading the series in preparation for Kate’s new 𝗥𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 book, 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁.
Have you ever hesitated to re-read a book or series because you know it’s going to wreck your heart? Yeah, that was me in a nutshell. Kate took buckets of tropes and emotions, crammed them into pages, and somehow made it work.
The Ravenhood series is this beautiful mash-up of a modern Robin Hood retelling and Romeo and Juliet—except Romeo has questionable morals, and we get to witness Juliet evolve from young and naive to one who will make Romeo walk through hot coals.
I’m not even going to try reviewing these separately. There’s a high chance this will include spoilers (a lot of them), so if you haven’t read the series yet, I’d suggest stopping here. But, feel free to scroll down to the bottom for six Ravenhood-themed coloring pages I put together to help work off the book hangover.
I’m far to proud of this 👉🏻
😅😆
Okay, if you’re still reading, then I’m assuming you, too, have been personally victimized by Kate Stewart. It’s been a little over a year since I first read this series, and I honestly didn’t expect it to hit this hard the second time around. It had been long enough that the story kind of merged into one in my head, so in a way, it felt like I was reading each book for the first time again.
No offense to Dom and Tobias, but I’ve always been a Sean girlie. I was more than a little upset the first time around because it broke my heart to see that he and Cecilia wouldn’t end up together. Even heading into the second book, I hoped for some kind of reconnection.
“𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡.”
“𝘐’𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴.”
“𝙉𝙤, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚. 𝘼 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚.”
Tessa is fine and all, but in my head, there’s an alternate universe where Sean and Cecilia end up together (selfishly, of course). There’s just something about how Sean loved her, how he felt everything so deeply—and so transparently—that’s wholesome and completely addicting.
“𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙.”
Dom took some time to grow on me, mostly because for the first half of book one, I didn’t think he had much personality. Jokes on me, though, because that man made me sob harder with this series than I ever have with any book before.
“𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧, 𝙮𝙚𝙨.”
“𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵?”
“𝙔𝙚𝙨, 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚.”
𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 definitely has moments that made me feel all sorts of things (hello, garage scene), but 𝗘𝘅𝗼𝗱𝘂𝘀 is, without a doubt, the most emotionally draining of all three books. The scene at the apple festival still wrecks me every single time…
“𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙣, 𝙋𝙪𝙥. 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙣, 𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙮, 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚.” “𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚, 𝙋𝙪𝙥, 𝙚𝙖𝙩, 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙚.”
Cecilia’s absolute (and completely justified) female rage meltdown in the garage is another scene that always gets me in a chokehold. I know without a doubt that, in her shoes, my crazy would have come out to shine, too…
“𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚? 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙢! 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙨? 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣? 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙚. 𝙄’𝙢 𝙙𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩. 𝙁𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙚.”
How I pictured the rest of the crew at the garage during this scene 🤣
And of course, the last moments with Dom are where Kate completely chews you up and spits you out…
“𝙒𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨, 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙚, 𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙮?”
I’ll be honest—I needed a feel-good, low-stakes read in between each of these books, or I would have ended up a total emotional zombie. 😅
𝗘𝘅𝗼𝗱𝘂𝘀 also has its emotional moments, but it also delivers the most humor. It might be one of my favorites because it includes one of my absolute favorite tropes: the groveling MMC 😆 And Tobias? Oh, Tobias deserved every bit of that groveling.
I’m also convinced that the entire series wouldn’t have been the same without getting Tobias’s POV. While I liked his character in 𝗘𝘅𝗼𝗱𝘂𝘀, it’s hard not to see him as selfish at times (even when you want him to get the girl in the end).
“𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤?”
“𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰. 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶!”
But in 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲, Kate fully humanizes Tobias by letting us into his head. We get to see his fears, his humor, his vulnerability, and we finally learn his full backstory (including details we didn’t get in the previous books).
Tobias’s battle with guilt over Dom’s death was, without a doubt, the most painful part of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲. As the eldest of my siblings, I can’t even fathom losing one of them, so I think that’s why his emotions and journey of coming to terms with that hit me so hard.
“𝙒𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙞𝙩, 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧.”
The epilogue in 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲 was the perfect conclusion to the series. I loved that Cecilia finally gets to see Dom in her dreams, and the idea of her being close to Sean again, having him in her life? Yes, please. And Tobias as a daddy? Absolutely, yes.
So, if you’re looking for a series that will make you gasp, sob, and lose sleep, look no further. And once you’re done, don’t forget to dive right into 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 books.
And if you have Kindle Unlimited, you’re in luck because all the books are on KU.
Every. Single. One. Keep scrolling for previews of each book (to, you know, get you properly hooked and all).
*Cue Evil Laughter*
As promised, here are your ✨Emotional Support Coloring Pages✨
And don’t forget to continue the emotional rollercoaster by checking out the Ravenhood Legacy books!
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