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To The Flame: A Dark Sapphic Why Choose Romance
488 pages, Paperback
Published May 26, 2025
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January 9, 2026
4.5 Stars
I really enjoyed it! Dare I say, I enjoyed this more than book two!? 🤣 I did yell “just f*ck her already” a lot at this book but the tension made me want to just keep reading (IYKYK). There is sadly not that many sapphic why-choose books in the world, so thank you so much Kylie Cross for providing this pure gold! I just want to dive straight into book three! Giving me a cliffhanger at the end too?! Now I know I have to get into the next book immediately. Luckily for you guys reading this review, if you haven’t started this series, all three books are out! So you can totally binge them all 😍
Now for the important details ⬇️
Written in first person with one main POV (but there may just be 1 or 2 others that pop up 😉). Book Two in the Killer Queens series. Dark Romance (please check TW’s), Why-Choose, Students/Sorority, Masc/Femme and Femme/Femme pairings, BDSM, Non-Binary Rep. Technically 7x Spicy Scenes, I’m debating 8 😂 as one scene has a short intermission. So use your own discretion on that one!
I really enjoyed it! Dare I say, I enjoyed this more than book two!? 🤣 I did yell “just f*ck her already” a lot at this book but the tension made me want to just keep reading (IYKYK). There is sadly not that many sapphic why-choose books in the world, so thank you so much Kylie Cross for providing this pure gold! I just want to dive straight into book three! Giving me a cliffhanger at the end too?! Now I know I have to get into the next book immediately. Luckily for you guys reading this review, if you haven’t started this series, all three books are out! So you can totally binge them all 😍
Now for the important details ⬇️
Written in first person with one main POV (but there may just be 1 or 2 others that pop up 😉). Book Two in the Killer Queens series. Dark Romance (please check TW’s), Why-Choose, Students/Sorority, Masc/Femme and Femme/Femme pairings, BDSM, Non-Binary Rep. Technically 7x Spicy Scenes, I’m debating 8 😂 as one scene has a short intermission. So use your own discretion on that one!
September 13, 2025
5/5 spice 🌶️
•sapphic why choose (f,f,f,nb)
•secret society
•sororities
•enemies to lovers
•bdsm
⚠️look up TWs⚠️
devouredddd this book!!! but the cliffhanger just pissed me off cause here we go again. cant these sisters just catch a break 🥲 the romance dynamic between the 4 of them was a little bit better in this. but instead of this book being more focused on Teresa and Elle’s connection, we see more of Kennedy and Elle. which im not complaining, i wanted more of Kennedy and we got it. i loved them. i really love seeing Elle’s separate connection with them all. i just wish we were seeing more of them all together. i still feel Elle is picking favorites and it frustrates me. or maybe im just annoyed that her and Xander are still acting like that hate eachother when CLEARLY they’re both down bad for eachother.
Elle: still have a love/hate relationship with her. she definitely grew more confident and each sister brings out a different side of her, which is nice to see. but she’s constantly keeping secrets and she’s terrible at communicating. although, what she thinks she’s doing is protecting them, she’s actually just making things worse. she’s very stubborn so i hope in this next book we see more character development from her. and she’s still horny 24/7 which hey whatever but it gets to a point lmao.
Xander: yuuuuuppppppp we finally get some action between her and Elle and it didn’t disappoint. it was hot. i thought after they hate fucked they’d finally drop the act thought but nope😃 at the end you can def see Xander turn a little softer towards Elle so i hope now that Teresa and Kennedy had their moments in the first 2 books, we see a lot of growth and etc with Xander in the next one and relationship development between her and Elle. there’s just something about Xander that has me SAT. she’s a hardass, def a bitch, possessive…but i know there’s so much more behind all that so i hope we get to see it.
Kennedy: my heart was so happy to get more of them in this book. i loved them so so much. they’re soft but strong. bold but gentle. they put up a tough front when needed but underneath all of it, they’re a big softie who’s worried about everyone. i love the adventurous side they bring out in Elle. and THEY. ARE. SEXY. and know exactly what they’re doing in bed. the sex scenes did NOT disappoint🙂↕️🙂↕️🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼
Teresa: i love her personality so much. she’s bold, confident, sexy, gentle and smart. her being a tech genius is hot. she knows her way with words, multiple times she had me blushing.
•••••••
fav quotes ❤️🩸⛓️
“If you act like a brat, I’ll punish you like one.”
“I know you’ve been hurt, that you’re still trying to find your footing. But you are anything but broken. You can pretend all you like that there’s something wrong with you, that you’re weak, but I see you for what you are. You are strong and beautiful. Underestimated, but resilient. You’re a shrike, through and through. Don’t let anyone make you question that.”
“Jealousy would require me to question whether you’re mine or not. But my bruises are still on your skin. I fucking own you.”
•sapphic why choose (f,f,f,nb)
•secret society
•sororities
•enemies to lovers
•bdsm
⚠️look up TWs⚠️
devouredddd this book!!! but the cliffhanger just pissed me off cause here we go again. cant these sisters just catch a break 🥲 the romance dynamic between the 4 of them was a little bit better in this. but instead of this book being more focused on Teresa and Elle’s connection, we see more of Kennedy and Elle. which im not complaining, i wanted more of Kennedy and we got it. i loved them. i really love seeing Elle’s separate connection with them all. i just wish we were seeing more of them all together. i still feel Elle is picking favorites and it frustrates me. or maybe im just annoyed that her and Xander are still acting like that hate eachother when CLEARLY they’re both down bad for eachother.
Elle: still have a love/hate relationship with her. she definitely grew more confident and each sister brings out a different side of her, which is nice to see. but she’s constantly keeping secrets and she’s terrible at communicating. although, what she thinks she’s doing is protecting them, she’s actually just making things worse. she’s very stubborn so i hope in this next book we see more character development from her. and she’s still horny 24/7 which hey whatever but it gets to a point lmao.
Xander: yuuuuuppppppp we finally get some action between her and Elle and it didn’t disappoint. it was hot. i thought after they hate fucked they’d finally drop the act thought but nope😃 at the end you can def see Xander turn a little softer towards Elle so i hope now that Teresa and Kennedy had their moments in the first 2 books, we see a lot of growth and etc with Xander in the next one and relationship development between her and Elle. there’s just something about Xander that has me SAT. she’s a hardass, def a bitch, possessive…but i know there’s so much more behind all that so i hope we get to see it.
Kennedy: my heart was so happy to get more of them in this book. i loved them so so much. they’re soft but strong. bold but gentle. they put up a tough front when needed but underneath all of it, they’re a big softie who’s worried about everyone. i love the adventurous side they bring out in Elle. and THEY. ARE. SEXY. and know exactly what they’re doing in bed. the sex scenes did NOT disappoint🙂↕️🙂↕️🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼
Teresa: i love her personality so much. she’s bold, confident, sexy, gentle and smart. her being a tech genius is hot. she knows her way with words, multiple times she had me blushing.
•••••••
fav quotes ❤️🩸⛓️
“If you act like a brat, I’ll punish you like one.”
“I know you’ve been hurt, that you’re still trying to find your footing. But you are anything but broken. You can pretend all you like that there’s something wrong with you, that you’re weak, but I see you for what you are. You are strong and beautiful. Underestimated, but resilient. You’re a shrike, through and through. Don’t let anyone make you question that.”
“Jealousy would require me to question whether you’re mine or not. But my bruises are still on your skin. I fucking own you.”
January 16, 2026
WOW! I LOVE ALL OF HER LOVE INTERESTS! XANDER=MOMMY KENNEDY=FREAK YES TERESA=SWEETIE PIE
I really do love this series it's so good and freaky but she does a good job balancing it with a plot so YASSSS😋
I'm devouring this series as you can tell and I already know when this series is over I'm going to be in a slump because nothing will compare to this Saphic novel after this.
Anyway read it! So so so good!
I really do love this series it's so good and freaky but she does a good job balancing it with a plot so YASSSS😋
I'm devouring this series as you can tell and I already know when this series is over I'm going to be in a slump because nothing will compare to this Saphic novel after this.
Anyway read it! So so so good!
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