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All You Desire by Kirsten Miller (Review #206)

 WARNING: SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN THIS FAR IN THE ETERNAL ONES SERIES, STOP NOW. DO NOT READ. THIS IS BOOK 2. CHECK OUT THE ETERNAL ONES FOR THE REVIEW OF BOOK 1!

“Haven Moore would like to believe that Adam Rosier and his sinister Ouroboros Society are a distant memory. But then her best friend, Beau Decker, disappears, and a cabal of women known as the Horae claim that Adam is responsible. The Horae have spent centuries scheming to destroy Adam. They tell Haven that she alone holds the clue to Beau's disappearance--and they'll help her only if she promises to lure Adam into their clutches. It's a plan the Horae believe may save the world, and one Haven and Iain fear may destroy the happiness they've been chasing for two thousand years. Because when Haven gets closer to Adam, he proves more alluring than she ever anticipated.”
Review:
You ever just start something and you know it’s going to be a complete dumpster fire, but you can’t help but start it anyways? That’s what this book feels like. Book 1 I was irate. It was such a mess that it really had me riled up. Now was this one better than the first? Maybe? I honestly felt like the story was so all over the place that at some point I just gave up trying to understand what was happening.

We deal with the same problems we did in the last book with Haven. She is so friggin wishy-washy that I swear I have readers’ whiplash. And for the so-called heroine of the story, she couldn’t do a single thing for herself without becoming the damsel in distress. Apparently only men can get the real work done? Please.

As for Iain (still annoyed with the spelling), he isn’t in the book all that much. Which I am so grateful for. Honestly, I was hoping that Adam would have this enemies-to-lovers arc with Haven, I feel like that might’ve turned this whole thing around. But it was just so surface-level. Every scene of emotional depth just felt like a skit and the characters were just imitating the appropriate emotions. None of it felt genuine. 

Of course the end left us on a cliffhanger that will just forever sit there since this is the final book. Overall, I feel grateful to not be filled with so much rage with this book, but that’s a low bar to meet. Not something I recommend, unless you want to hate-read it!

Let me know your own thoughts and feels down below in the comments!


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