Undone: A Novel

The Undone #4

by Peyton Corinne

From USA TODAY bestselling author Peyton Corinne comes a second-chance hockey romance between the team’s antihero and the new assistant coach’s daughter filled with Peyton’s trademark “deliciously angsty” (Publishers Weekly) storytelling.

Toren Kane has always been a magnet for trouble. Branded as dangerous and brutal, his reputation has followed him from the playground to the ice rink. After a scandal cost him his first-round NHL draft pick, Toren’s last shot at redemption lies with Waterfell University’s hockey team—who all despise him for what he did to their captain at the last Frozen Four competition. To make matters worse, Waterfell’s new assistant coach is Christophe LaBlanc, Toren’s former coach and the man who knows all his darkest secrets.

Lillian LaBlanc is out of chances, according to her father. After flunking out of an Ivy League, she’s struggling and her father’s strict rules are the only things keeping her afloat. Suffering beneath the weight of his suffocating control, Lily is desperate to keep her need to paint as hidden as her depression. But her fragile stability is threatened when she discovers that Toren Kane, her childhood best friend and first love, is also attending Waterfell—and is on her father’s team.

As Toren and Lily’s lives collide once more, old wounds and unresolved feelings resurface. Toren must confront his self-destructive tendencies and learn to let others in, while Lily faces the daunting task of breaking free from her father’s grip. Their connection could be the key to healing—or the spark that reignites the chaos they’ve both been trying to escape.

Genres: Romance, Sports Romance, Hockey, Sports, Hockey Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary

496 pages, Paperback

Expected publication October 20, 2026

Reviews

[nadine]

I got the arc!!! 🥹🥹🥹 best birthday gift ever 😭🙌🏻💌

the coverrrrrrrrr 😩🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

[joni ౨ৎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

𐙚⋆°｡⋆♡ ── infinity stars

review is here!!!


this is the best book i've ever read in my life

lilytoren have my entire heart and i'm never moving on.

i have never cried this much while reading a book, couldn't go 10 pages without tearing up

her depression, their struggles with friendship and belonging, the pain, and them finding each other again - fated mates in every way.

okay so starting this off by saying this is like the most vulnerable review ive ever written.

lilian lablanc is a very sensitive topic for me, i knew the moment i met her (while reading unbound) she was a very special person. depression representation in books is always something i am personally drawn to and am very emotionally attached, as someone who's struggling with it - it's really healing to see my struggles written on a page. toren obviously caught my attention from day one, when he was introduced in unsteady

second chance is my favourite trope of all time + angst and yearning and lots of pain just makes it even better, the best part of this trope is how raw and authentic it feels. two people who may have not been able to make the best choices or life didn't let them be happy at that certain point in time but are given a second chance.

i couldn't open undone without sobbing, every single page is written with such pain and love. reading lily's feels like opening a wound that hasn't healed, her struggles with being a 'weirdo' her entire life and struggling to connect with others and making friends. as someone who has always felt like an outcast and never really felt like they belonged anywhere and the topic friendship is something that keeps me up at night - thank you peyton for making me feel seen.

adding to the reason this story is very special, all i've ever wanted as a child was to be seen and understood - this story about two characters and all they've ever other is see and understand the other. people may not think of a toren like character when they think of their ideal man, but he truly sees every broken up part of her and all the things she hides from everyone else and loves her despite it.


✧˖°🏒 ⋆｡˚꩜ tropes & things to expect
⤷ childhood friends to lovers to enemies to lovers
⤷ he has tattoos for her
⤷ depression & self loathing
⤷ dual timeline
⤷ deaf rep
⤷ it's only been you
⤷ fated mates
⤷ freak for freak
⤷ he hates everyone but her (he's actually the sweetest dude to exist)

if you have not yet read this series - PLEASE do! the mental health representation is so authentic and healing. (please start with unsteady!!!)

thank you atria / s&s for approving an e-ARC via edelweisis


𐙚⋆°｡⋆♡ ── pre read

i can't believe i can say this... but i'm reading undone. the last book in the undone series and im saying goodbye to waterfell university after this.

lilytoren i'm coming!!! im already 20% done and the tears have started falling from page 2.

this is going to be my soul book.


↪ started apr 8
↪ finished apr 1




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THE COVER. no other words

the most gorgeous and painful cover to exist for the most beautiful broken people (big freaks !)


the most anticipated book of my life. no one talk to me lilytoren are coming home. IDC they're the most me couple to exist.



YOU GUYS UGH I LOVE EVERYTHING PEYTON !!!! my book I called it + the hottest couple to exist


she's 5'0 and he's 6'6

[aira]

we're getting Toren and second chance all in one book?!?! literally counting down the days because what 🤭🤭

[kimberly ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡. [semi-hiatus] · Rating 5 out of 5]

‎❝ there's not a world that exists, in the multitudes out there, where toren kane and lily lablanc aren't tied together. true soulmates who would find each other, no matter what. ❞

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎undone did exactly what i feared it would do: took toren kane, a man i have been lowkey thirsting over since the first book, gave him a bad reputation, a scandal, a derailed NHL dream, a motorcycle, tattoos, unresolved history with lily leblanc, then expected me to behave like a normal adult in society. be so for real right now.


₊˚꒰ ⟡ ˙ i. plot. ₊˚⊹ ꒱
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ undone is toren kane's story, and when i tell you i have been waiting for this book like a raccoon outside a closed dumpster bin, i mean it. the little crumbs we got of them before already had me prowling through the woods and grunting like a caveman.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ toren kane has the kind of reputation that enters the room before he does, throws a chair, and then asks if anyone has a problem. after a scandal nukes his nhl prospects, his path to redemption runs through waterfell university's hockey team, which is hilarious because waterfell university is less of a college and more of a group therapy waiting room with jerseys.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ enter lillian "lily" lablanc, daughter of the team's assistant coach, toren's childhood best friend, because of course she is, and a girl who is very much not doing okay despite everyone expecting her to keep functioning like a normal little human being. this book has scandal debris, hockey redemption, childhood-friends tension, old hurt, forced proximity to feelings no one consented to processing, and two people who are absolutely not over each other despite acting like they have both moved on with dignity. they have not. nobody believed them. not me, not waterfell, not the ice, not toren's motorcycle, not a single molecule in the room.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ what worked so well for me is that the drama actually had roots. toren's reputation matters. lily's connection to the team and her struggles matters. their past matters. their present mess matters. this is not just some bad boy hockey player meets girl and becomes better because she has eyelashes. thank god. it is much more painful and therefore much more my problem.

₊˚꒰ ⟡ ˙ ii. toren motherfucking kane. ₊˚⊹ ꒱
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ toren kane is, unforunately, will be the bane of my existence. i support fictional men's rights and fictional men's wrongs when they come with tattoos and a motorcycle.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ but toren is not just hot chaos in hockey gear. that would have been fun, sure, but it would not have earned the five stars. what made him hit so hard is that underneath the bad reputation and the scandal, there is so much hurt. toren carries himself like someone who decided a long time ago that if everyone was going to expect the worst from him, he might as well hand them a signed copy. he provokes. he pushes. he self-sabotages with olympic-level dedication. he acts like he does not care, but the man cares so violently that it practically leaks out of him.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ he is not careless because he feels nothing. he is careless because he feels too much and has apparently stored every emotion in the same drawer as his bad decisions. someone get him a therapist. and maybe a snack. and maybe confiscate the motorcycle keys during emotional storms.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ toren's arc worked because peyton did not sand him down into some basic, therapy-seeking romance hero who suddenly communicates like he majored in emotional literacy. he is still toren. still sharp. still intense. still a little bit of a walking public safety announcement. but he grows. he softens where it matters. he learns how to stop treating his own life like a demolition site. and i fear that got me.


₊˚꒰ ⟡ ˙ iii. lily lablanc. ₊˚⊹ ꒱
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ lily lablanc, the woman that you are. i loved her. truly. because she could have easily been written as the Good Girl Assigned To Fix The Bad Boy, which is a trope i tolerate only when the bad boy is hot enough and the girl has a backbone made of steel. thankfully, lily is not standing around with a clipboard labeled "toren rehabilitation program." she has her own life, her own pressure, her own school struggles, her own history with toren, and her own reasons for being messy.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ she is not just the assistant coach's daughter. she is not just the childhood friend. she is not just the girl from his past who exists to make him feel guilty and then kiss him better. lily has weight. she has that very specific energy of a girl trying to keep her head above water while everyone else assumes she should already know how to swim.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ lily stays. she fights. she feels. she gets angry. she gets scared. she wants things she does not always know how to hold. she sees toren in a way other people do not, which is romantic, yes, but also deeply inconvenient. because knowing someone before they became their reputation is powerful. she remembers the boy beneath the scandal, beneath the armor, beneath the noise. and that makes every scene between them feel loaded.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ lily does not just want the version of toren everyone whispers about. she knows there is more. and because she knows there is more, she refuses to let him hide behind the easy excuse of being the problem. also, she matched his energy without being swallowed by it, which is extremely important.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ and on a more personal note, lily's depression hit a little too close to home for me. like, haha, very funny, i thought i was reading about a tattooed hockey menace and his childhood friend, not getting emotionally ambushed by a girl whose brain is also occasionally a haunted basement with bad lighting. the way she struggled to keep up, to function, to do the basic little human tasks everyone else makes look easy? yeah. unfortunately, i understood that a little too well.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ i related to that feeling of knowing you should be doing things, school, responsibilities, life, existing like a normal person with emails and clean laundry, but your brain is just sitting in the corner like a wet victorian orphan refusing to cooperate. lily's depression wasn't written like a cute sad-girl aesthetic. it felt heavy, frustrating, isolating, and painfully familiar, which made me care about her so much more.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ so yes, toren had me feral because tattoos and motorcycle, obviously, i am not pretending to be stronger than god made me. but lily had me emotional because i saw pieces of myself in her. the exhaustion, the guilt, the feeling of falling behind while everyone else seems to be walking on normal pavement and you're trudging through soup. peyton corinne did not need to come for my mental health and my fictional-man standards in the same book, but here we are.


₊˚꒰ ⟡ ˙ iv. romance. ₊˚⊹ ꒱
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ the romance? vile. disgusting. exactly what i wanted. toren and lily have the kind of chemistry that makes every scene feel like it should come with a campus safety warning. and it is not just because they are attracted to each other, though obviously, yes, the tension was tensioning. it is because they have history. history changes everything.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ they were childhood friends and lovers, which means they knew each other before all the armor got this heavy. they knew the softer versions. the younger versions. the versions that had not yet been reshaped by scandal, pressure, hurt, and bad coping mechanisms. so when they reunite at waterfell, it is not two strangers falling in love. it is two people trying to figure out what to do with the fact that the past is still alive and breathing in the corner. and i ate that up.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ there is something so deliciously awful about unresolved feelings when both people are pretending they are not currently being haunted by the other person's existence. toren looks at lily like she is the scene of the crime and the only witness. lily looks at toren like she wants to save him, kiss him, and throw him into a lake in that exact order.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ he best part is that lily did not magically fix toren, nor did he magically fix her. love did not swoop in wearing a little cape and clean up their entire lives. they both had to choose differently. they both had to face old wounds. they both had to stop letting the past steer the car while pretending they were in control.


₊˚꒰ ⟡ ˙ v. waterfell university. ₊˚⊹ ꒱
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ what made undone feel especially satisfying as a finale is that toren and lily both have this outsider energy within the broader found family. this is not just toren finding redemption or lily finding love. it is also about them finding where they belong. with each other, yes, but also inside this chaotic little waterfell family that has been emotionally body-slamming me for multiple books now.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ seeing the series come together through them felt right. painful, obviously. this is peyton corinne, not a spa brochure. but right.


₊˚꒰ ⟡ ˙ vi. conclusion. ₊˚⊹ ꒱
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ this gave me exactly what i wanted from toren and lily. i wanted intensity. got it. i wanted old wounds. got stabbed with them. i wanted childhood-friends and past-lovers tension. delivered. and yes, i wanted tattooed biker hockey man content. i am not better than that. i have never claimed to be better than that. listen. i am only human. barely. you put a tattooed hockey player on a motorcycle. i'm so feral right now.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ but the real reason this hit five stars is that it felt emotionally complete. toren and lily's relationship had history, chemistry, pain, and payoff. i loved that their love was not easy. easy would have been wrong for them. toren and lily needed messy. they needed difficult. they needed honesty dragged out by the ankles. they needed to stand in the wreckage and decide whether they were brave enough to build something real out of it. and when they did? i was done. fully undone, actually. title accurate. five stars for truth in advertising.

— 5 stars. ⋆˚☆˖°.ᐟ


‎── ⟡ ˙ 🪻༘ ₊ main tropes. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
⟢ college sports romance
⟢ little weirdo girl x big freak boy lol
⟢ freak4freak
⟢ second chance
⟢ outcasted loners
⟢ found family
⟢ basically fated mates
⟢ it's only been you
⟢ his tattoos are a shrine to her
⟢ yearning and self-loathing
⟢ depression and deaf rep


⌗ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎started: jun. 3rd, 2026. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⌝
‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⌞ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎finished: jun. 7th, 2026. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ✦


₊˚⊹ ᰔ pre-review:
⤿ i'm crying. i'm gonna be so insufferable about this series. also, in the spirit of transparency, i may be slightly biased because toren kane is tattooed, rides a motorcycle, has emotional damage, AND IS SECRETLY A SOFTIE. but also maybe peyton corinne should stop manufacturing men specifically designed to ruin my frontal lobe. rtc!

₊˚⊹ ᰔ pre-read:
⤿ i got the arc for undone, so naturally i am clocking in, losing sleep, and reporting to waterfell university for one final emotional breakdown over toren kane. i fear this is the book that will make me fully feral, academically useless, and legally unfit for society. already predicting the 5 stars.


‎── ⟡ ˙ 🪻༘ ₊ review and ratings.
⊹ unsteady. ┆ 4 ⭑.ᐟ
⊹ unloved. ┆ 4.5 ⭑.ᐟ
⊹ unbound. ┆ 4.75 ⭑.ᐟ
⊹ undone. ┆ 5 ⭑.ᐟ

thank you atria books for the arc via edelweisiss! all opinions are my own.

[maria (will I fully comeback?)]

ITS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFEEEE!!! GOT THE ARC😩😩 really tempted to not care about my finals and just read this right now

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I’m always going to be amazed with this cover🤩 it is STUNNINGGGGGGGGG!!!

Prepare to be sick of me, never going to shut up about this series. Like I don’t think I have ever felt this much love and excitement over a series😩

ANOTHER SECOND CHANCE FROM MY QUEEN PEYTON!!!!😭😭😭 and with depression rep😭 I don’t think I’m going to survive this one😭 2 books in 1 year!!😭😭 also Toren and Lily’s story is so interesting! like all their crumbs in unbound is giving me life😭

[veerali]

hi peyton,
kindly kiss the brick this time before throwing it at me. 🫶

sincerely,
vee x

[mags · Rating 5 out of 5]

5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"There's not a world that exists, in the multitudes out there, where Toren Kane and Lily LaBlanc aren't tied together. True soulmates who would find each other, no matter what" 🌌❤️‍🔥🎨🏒💜♾️

oh where do i even start. this book is EVERYTHING to me. this book may have been my favorite in the series, which is crazy bc I thought it'd be almost impossible to top unbound. i have been waiting for tor's story since book one and let you tell you it did not disappoint, it did break my heart 100 times over though 😭 seeing him finally get the love and family he deserves was so beautiful, it had me sobbing multiple times, and don't even get me started on tor & the harrises😭😭❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

lily and tor are truly soulmates, in every single way possible. their love was so pure and consuming, i could read 1000 books about them. they were so deep and angsty but also SO fun and freaky, im obsessed

and lily & paloma my babies 😭 their friendship healed me, i love them SO dearly. same with tor and holden, the way holden kept showing up for tor no matter what🥹 & paloma & tor's "reluctant alliance" (aka they were friends who wouldn't admit it) two sides of the same coin they are

i am so sad to be saying goodbye to this series & these characters that i have grown to love so so much, but they will always have a special place in my heart ❤️‍🩹

thank you so so much netgalley for this arc!!

[elise ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡ [ia - vacation]]

AHHHHHHHH IM SCREAMING!! my most anticipated release and i got the arc!!!!! i cannot wait to read this soon 🥹 i know lily and toren will be my roman empire 🤭💫💐 so so grateful !!

[manas (traveling)]

praying to everything that i get this arc

[naima]

im going feral for this book.

[cat]

・❥・⁀➷ 𝕡𝕣𝕖-𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖

AHHHH THIS COVER?!?!

OCTOBER??? Be serious right now. 😭 I’ve been waiting for Toren’s story for what feels like an eternity.

First love??? Second chance??? IM SATTTT UGHHH
I’m waiting. STARVING. 😭😭😭 We are absolutely about to be unwell when this drops. I need a fast forward button immediately

[asra⭑.ᐟ (hiatus)]

goddamn that cover is hot.

[carolina]

Toren and Lily have my heart 😭

rtc!

[lucialeelibros · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was the most fucking -perfect- book i've read so far this 2026, i don't think ayone could beat it.

Review.

What happens to me with Peyton’s books doesn't happen with many authors, and when I say "something happens," I mean… it’s that they are the kind of books I take personally, as if they were written exclusively for me among the millions of people who read themand (spoiler alert), I’m not that person, lol. It means that, in one way or another, I feel like I live through her words. Possibly many others have told her this, but: thank you, Peyton. I don’t have the slightest clue where those emotions you have to write books so incredibly beautiful and painful at the same time come from, but thank you. Honestly, as someone who isn't artistic at all, you inspire something in me that I can’t quite explain.

Now, Undone is the final book of “The Undone Series,” one last time in Waterfell’s (and believe me, the heartache of knowing it’s the last one is felt from the very first pages). It’s one of those places you truly don’t want to leave, but a chapter has to close, and boy, does Undone give you that closure. If I had to describe Undone in one word, it would be “gut-wrenching.” This is because we see how two people, living under the same sky, breathing the same air, sharing the same spaces, and sharing the same heart, having so much of one another suffer and find happiness at the same time, together yet apart. I’m not sure if I’m expressing what I mean clearly, but wow.

The story has an ending that is tightly linked with Unbound (if you haven’t read it, I honestly highly recommend doing so since the stories connect to each other in a way which, by the way, is FANTASTIC how that’s achieved). Here we see how certain things happened from another point of view, which makes me feel even sadder. Do what I did: while I was seeing the connection, I went back to Unbound and read them in tandem; it was funny, painful, and heartbreaking. And yes, it’s true, it can be read as a standalone, but they tell so many things from the previous books that, if you notice… it was necessary. It becomes important to read the others to understand certain contexts.

Toren Kane is the main character of the book, a man we’ve known since Book 1. He is a character that, honestly, we all felt the same way about: what a horrible and despicable person. But somehow, we kept seeing that he was important to the plot. We saw how Rhys and Sadie had their moment with him, then Freddy and Ro, then Paloma and Bennet (which is where he had a more crucial turning point), only to reach the point of asking ourselves: what happened to him? What is his story, really? Is he the villain? And yes, girls, we always end up liking the "bad guy" who, in the end… wasn’t bad. Just a poor young man, scared and terrified of the world, because yes, the world had been excessively cruel (I’m not defending his actions, I just understand him so much). Toren is a difficult, complex character, someone who doesn't know how to express his emotions and deeply misunderstands those of others; therefore, he believes the world is wrong. Reading his POV is devastating, how someone as innocent as he was had to go through all that just because he was a boy who was different from the rest? How did he have to risk so much for the ONLY person, his best friend, and then have to move on without her? Toren lost everything, not once, but twice.

On the other hand, we have Lillian LaBlanc, or Lily. She is his best friend, childhood friend, and the love of his life. Yes, there is no other way to introduce Lily other than that. She is Toren’s ray of light, hope, and happiness, and vice-versa. Lily is that field of lilies you want to walk through on a Sunday morning holding Toren’s hand, because yes, he is that kind of man with her. Lily is a girl who suffers from depression; she is as complex and difficult as Toren, but at the same time, she is one of those people who, despite all that, has the chance to question herself. Lily is the daughter of the new hockey coach, and she arrives at the university after leaving Harvard, and destiny puts her right back in front of her old friend Toren. One of the things I empathized with most regarding Lily is the ability to make friends and meet new people. Did you know that after traumatic events, our brains don't function the way one would normally see others? We forget motor skills like… being friendly. She is a very lonely girl, and honestly, as you read her, you feel her loneliness to the max and that’s a sensation that stings, that hits you in the chest. The greatest happiness and the world that makes Lily happy is only one: painting, and Vincent van Gogh.

I think what destroyed me most about the book were the moments when they weren't together, the moments where they realized they are more independent, that they are capable of opening up to other people and letting them in. Lily found in Paloma what Toren found in Holden. Each one played an important role in what was: friendship, finding oneself, the power of expression, and independence.

I want to mention two incredible characters (spoiler-free).

- Coach Harris: we’ve known him since Book 1, and I never realized how lucky I am to have parents after everything he did for Toren, both him and his wife Sahara. Their moments left my heart in my hands.
- Holden: boy, I wish I could talk freely about you as you deserve but, wherever you are fictionally, thank you for existing, and for having a heart as beautiful as yours. Thank you for not giving up, for your silences, for your laughs, for absolutely everything. You are that friend we all need to have.

Undone did many more things to me; possibly by the publication date, I’ll have more to say, because yes, I have more things left to say, but they are spoilers that no one deserves to read. Thank you, Atria, for letting me read Peyton once more in an advanced way. Honestly, nothing would make me happier than having this book in my hands, but like everything else: it’s a dream that one day before I die, I will make come true.

Thank you.

[sam]

I actually can’t be normal about this because wdym october 2026??? 😩💘

[justine ⊹ ࣪ ˖ (slump era)]

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pre-read : edelweiss loves me today ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[cath · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 stars

God where do I even start? This book ends a series I hold dear to my heart and gives us the ending and closure we need. Corinne arguably writes her most raw and emotional book fit with two characters, undone by one another, hopelessly in love, but stuck in cycle of feeling so alone. Lily and Toren are a set of characters that you know at first glance they are just meant to be together, and after meeting Toren all the way back in book one (Unsteady), and meeting Lily in Unbound, I could not wait for their story to unravel.

Undone truly shows the absolute genius that is the mind of Peyton Corinne. Truly. This book is full of dual timelines from each book in the serious, and dual timelines that take place in the form of flashbacks; this can be hard, yet it was done so smoothly that it just made so much sense as the story unfolded. I truly adored their story, was brought to tears at times, and was put back together by the love that is Toren and Lily.

tropes:
- childhood friends to second chance lovers
- hockey romance
- artist x hockey player
- dual timeline
- deaf representation
- found family
- “it's only ever been you”
- basically fated mates
- freak 4 freak

Toren is a complex character, he struggles, is misunderstood, and made out to be a specific character from the perspective of everyone (even the readers!), and his point of view is so heartbreaking and loving that you can’t help but wish to jump into this book to just tell Toren it will be okay, to jump into the pages and give him a hug.

Lily is a character that is not only just as complex as Toren, but also a character that feels so much, that sometimes you can’t feel them at all. She is realistic, she is representation for people who are struggling, who—in her loneliness—makes you feel less alone. To her, painting is what reading is to me, and her story brought me comfort that I wish I could return (she certainly does not want anything painted by me).

Each time that I read a book of Peyton’s I think “there is no way I can hurt more, that I can be brought to tears again, that I could love a book more” and like clockwork, another book comes at me, ready to absolutely destroy me. I wouldn’t have it any other way, and right from the playlist at the beginning, the stunning cover, the story that is Toren Kane and Lily LaBlanc is truly perfect.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Toren Kane deserves the world.

I knew I’d love this man from the moment we met him, but fucking hell. No, you don't understand. The man is quite literally Warren Peace. Yes, you read that right... WARREN PEACE. This reignited my childhood crush. I felt like I was reading the couple that should've been in Sky High. IYKYK... Layla + Warren supremacy 🏆

He is so protective. SO devoted. He has a literal shrine of tattoos for her. Nope, I can't cope.

I don't think I can formulate a substantial review so just take a look at some of my inner monologue while reading:

He is so gentle with her, oh my god.

Oh, they are both obsessed. Got it 🙂‍↕️

Sad emo boy who loves The Smiths? My literal teenage dream. 🎶 You make me feel like I'm living a teenage dream. 🎶

Slow dancing with bloody knuckles to Death Cab For Cutie at the prom. Literally knock me out.

CRACK. This book is crack.

I'm sorry... NINE inches???

LIAM!!! Never met a Liam I didn't love.

The breakfast scene… 🥹🫠💓

If you can’t tell this was beyond nostalgic for me. The Smiths, Death Cab, Boys Like Girls… your voice is the soundtrack of my summer… you’ll always be my THUNDER. Dude, I can’t. The playlist took me TF out.

HOWEVER. Why is this a four? Because even though I quite literally love the man, and HE is infinity stars, there were some issues I had:

1. Lily felt infantilized at times and I just don’t feel like we got nearly enough individual character growth for her. She was just sort of meh for me.

2. Lily’s dad felt like a plot device that never came full circle. I was left with a handful of unanswered questions that will quite literally never be answered since this is the last book. It made the actual plot feel like an afterthought.

These are just my gripes. I still had such a good time and it’s a toss up between this and Unbound, but definitely top of the series for me. These last two books were just on another level in comparison to the series as a whole.

[Kara]

This is merely my thoughts after reading Unbound.
There is something going on with the main characters in this book and... someone else.
It's giving... the ending of Game On.
If that was your bag of tea, this will probably be your favorite book in the series.

[casey]

only peyton could make me undone by a book that isn't even out yet I'M ALREADY UNWELLL 😭😭 (also her giving us not one but TWO second chance romances in one year?!? for THE men bennett reiner & toren kane?!? i have never felt more blessed and simultaneously so concerned for my well being in my life!!!!)

[Masha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. Best book in the series.

[lali ✰]

to be honest, i’ve been completely obsessed with this series, and the idea of waiting until october to get into the mind of Toren Kane sounds like a bittersweet tease, but also the most torturous thing i could ever endure... 😭

[maud ⋆˙⟡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

brb crying because this series is over

MY BABIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES

i just love lily and toren so much.
this series has been one of the best, if not the best tbh, i've read in the pas year year.
peyton corinne knows how to write a gut wrenching story and i will read EVERYTHING she writes for the rest of my life.

if this is the first book you read in this series, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go back to read from the start, it is more than worth it.

♥♥♥
thank you so much to netgalley and most of all, atria, for giving me an ARC in exchange of an honest review!!

[phoebe · Rating 5 out of 5]

The one thing I love about Peyton Corinnes' writing is that you can tell how deeply she cares about these characters through her words. They continue to grow even past their respective books. She truly gets better and better with every single book. Toren Kane was a character we met in the first book that I was immediately drawn to. You could tell from then that there was more to the eye. A year before the series takes place, Toren causes a life-altering hit against Rhys, the protagonist in Unsteady, which is the first book. When he is kicked off of his team and moved to Waterfell, the team immediately takes a dislike to him because of the hit against Rhys, their captain. Toren proves himself again and again without attracting attention from his teammates, so no one really notices what a good and genuine person he is because of his psychopath enforcer reputation on the ice. He punched Sadies abusive coach, and Ro's abusive boyfriend was a friend to Paloma, and yet he still was treated horribly by the boys. Toren deserves the world. Then we have Lily, Paloma's roommate, whom we meet in Unbound. Lily and Toren have been best friends since they were about six, Toren the foster kid with a rough home life, and Lily the rich "weird girl" who, dare I say, has an even worse home life. Lily struggles with depression and over fixation with Vincent Van Gogh. Her father, who was also Torens' coach growing up, is very emotionally abusive towards both of them. Lily has no freedom where her dad is concerned; he wants to control every aspect of Lily's life. Something happened four years ago that caused a rift between their relationship, all leading back to Lily's asshole of a father. I hate him so much, I want to jump into the book and beat him up. With everything Lily's dad does to keep them away from each other, nothing can stand in the way of their true love. Undone was definitely a whole different vibe from the other books in the series. Toren is probably her darkest MMC. I mean, his dirty talk was almost a dark romance book boyfriend. I definitely need Peyton to write a dark romance. I loved Lily and Torens' relationship so much because you could feel the tension and the push and pull between them. I think their book was the perfect way to wrap up their story, and I'm so happy to see it end with Toren and his teammates finally letting him into the inner circle.

[aromanticshelf · Rating 5 out of 5]

*i received an ARC of Undone from Atria via Edelweiss and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.*

i am completely and utterly undone.

There aren’t enough words in all the languages combined to express how perfect Undone is. This book ends one of my favourite series i’ve ever read and I couldn’t have asked for a better ending, it gave me some much needed closure, and like all the other books in the Undone series, it spoke to me deeply.

Undone is about two souls so hopelessly in love and so irrevocably undone by one another. Two souls craving love, platonic and romantic, acceptance, family, and above all, yearning for the day they stop feeling out of place and alone.

Toren, our mmc, is a character I have been, not so patiently, waiting for. We met him in Unsteady (Undone #1) and I immediately knew his story was going to wreck me, and wreck me it did. He’s complex and constantly misunderstood. From everyone else’s point of view he’s just angry and can’t control his fist or mouth. But finally being in his mind? completely different. he’s angry, yes. But he’s also hurt, scared, lonely, and dealing with self hatred that has consumed him for a long time. He’s struggling in every sense of the word, and seeing that through him made my heart ache so much. Toren is protective to his core. No matter what he refuses to see someone else getting hurt, even if it means he gets hurt instead. Which is something we saw in the glimpses we got of him throughout the Undone series, but again, getting to experience these things from his view made them look so different, so much more painful. Being inside Toren’s brain was such a privilege. I was so heartbroken for him that I wished I could grab him and show him how loveable he is, comfort him, reassure him, just do something, anything, to make him hurt less.

Lilly, my sweet angel. Lilly is just as complex as Toren but her emotions are louder. She feels so much until she doesn’t feel anything at all, and that is relatable beyond words. She’s also deeply lonely, and in her loneliness I felt less alone. She’s a character I know a lot of people will resonate with in one way or another, whether it be her mental struggles, familial relationships, disabilities, insecurities, friendships, or something else. Aside from Lilly’s struggles, she’s also relatable in her quirks, and those quirks made her such a special character to me. I saw so much of myself in her, but through a gentle lens that made me sob with how much I adored her, with how much I wanted her to be free and happy, with how much I wanted to see myself through that lens.

Toren and Lilly together is inevitable. They were written for each other, bound, fated, souls tied, whatever you want to call it, it’s all the same, they complete each other. Lilly to Toren is hope, solace, happiness, the light at the end of the tunnel, and Toren to Lilly is exactly that. Toren’s hardness softens in the presence of Lilly, and Lilly’s softness hardens in defence of Toren. They both wanted to see the each other thrive, wanted to see the other let people in and make genuine friends, allow people to see the real them. And while they may have found friends independently, them finding each other again and the strength they gave each other was the final push that made it happen. And I, of course, can’t talk about their relationship without talking about them being freaks for each other. They truly matched each other in every stage. In their friendship, in their love, in their banter, in the sheets, you get my point, yeah?

The found family in Undone, and the series as a whole, deserves its own moment. Toren and Lilly, two people who have felt loneliness so deep in their bones, for so long, that they didn’t think there’s anything else for them, found their people with and outside of each other. Toren found Holden, and Lilly found Paloma. Both of which saw through them and showed unwavering patience, love, and acceptance. And that breakfast scene at the end? Perfection. This found family is one I’ll forever hold dear to my heart, because it gave me hope that I’ll find my own person (or people) one day.

Reading Undone was a flood of feelings, something that Peyton does incredibly well. She knows how to make me overflow with feelings for and with her characters, I felt anger for Toren and Lilly, sadness, fear, hurt, anxiety, love, lust, etc. every single emotion that Peyton gave her characters was felt through the pages. I sobbed, a lot, and I still sob every day thinking of them. Undone broke me and healed me at the same time.

Peyton Corinne’s novels are ones that I feel especially protective and possessive over. They speak to me on an incredibly personal level to the point where I sometimes forget other people will read them because of how much they feel written specifically for me. And her writing has a big part to play in that, Corinne writes beautifully, each one of her books feels raw and honest. Filled with pain and sadness, but also so much tenderness and love. They make me feel comforted, seen, understood, accepted, and above all, they make me hope. The Undone series coming to an end is bittersweet, but Corinne ended it exceptionally well, with as much care and love poured into Undone as every other book of hers. I leave Waterfell sure that all the characters are happy, cared for, and surrounded with love in all its forms <3.

[shelby (shelbyreadssmut) · Rating 5 out of 5]

No one talked to me while I come to terms that this series is over - this was a MASTERPIECE!

[Texa]

Toren hasn’t been with anyone during the separation (has kissed others)

[Lucía]

We're finally getting Toren's book!!! This is definitely my favorite cover!! I can't stop staring at it

[Courtney Kaelin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is honestly a generous rating

[ahmeeka]

hodder and stoughton I’m on my KNEES begging for an arc