Audrie Reads’s Reviews > Coal Gets In Your Veins > Status Update

I will probably revisit this in 2026, but I’m soft DNFing at this stage because I am having a hard time connecting to Spencer’s POV. I’m really only interested in Laurels POV. And even though Spencer does not get a lot of page time, I am finding it that his scenes break up the narrative in a way that makes it hard for me to want pick it back up.

Make sure you read the forward. It has a lot of warning about the content you might see, but it’s not so much laundry list of content warnings/ trigger warnings.

If I had not read it I would have been very shocked by the first chapter with Laurel. It sent me into that panic of fawn and freeze I felt in my first marriage.