Set ten years after the ending of the main series, this novella is a snapshot into the lives of Danica and her family. Some things haven’t changed, Roar still loves perching on tables, Zane is still overprotective, Daxton is still an absolutely kinky sweety pie, Remi is still adorable, Dom still loves trolling Gabe and Gabe still has his murderous tendencies.
Reading the novella was likely slipping into some comfy pjs, and it was like we’d never been away. I was sat there with a big smile on my face for a lot of it, and there was a lot of focus on Zander (my joint favourite of all the guys (along with Daxton)) (for spoilery reasons that become clear in the first few pages of the story). Oh, and there’s some primal play that is absolutely hot and steamy.
We also got to catch up with some of the side characters like Danica’s bestie Kayla, Gabe and Fina’s brother Atlas and Sol (the latter two are continuing to break my heart due to their boody-minded stubbornness) and it set the stage for Fina’s story, working as a sort of extended prologue, reintroducing dragon shifter Ryland and new guy Teos.
And the kids were super adorable, proper little mini-me’s of their dads (and not just their biological ones - as it’s pointed out many times during the story, they are *all* the kids dads)
The one thing that made me so sad when reading this? The comment in the notes at the end that this is the last time she’ll be writing about these characters from their POVs. I know that they’ll play a part in Serafina’s series, but still….it’s sad.
I wish it was about 500 pages longer, I’m not ready to say goodbye to them yet. How can I, BVU is number two in my top three favourite why choose series ever (and I’ve read a lot of them).