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I like Auren and Slade. Which is why I shouldn’t be 5 books deep saying to myself that Slade deserves better. The emotional depth is desperately lacking in Auren’s chapters. To the point where it seems like she genuinely does not care about reuniting. Meanwhile Slade is LITERALLY DYING from the separation.

Up until now I was impressed with Kennedy’s trauma informed writing, but it seems she’s thrown all of that out the window. Trauma isn’t tidy optimism. I’m supposed to believe Auren panics for all of 2 seconds before she remembers Slade’s words and that bolsters her? She would be devastated, panicking over what she lost (and might genuinely never get back).