Synopsis:
When Emma wakes up tied to a bed, she believes the mafia has finally caught up to her.

But the truth is so much worse.

She’s been mistaken for her twin sister, her sweet, lovable sister who’s been charged with mass murder and helping a vampire destroy the Seven Planes. If she doesn’t confess all, her kidnapper will pull the water out of her blood and into her lungs. Dragged into a reality where monsters and gods exist and mercy is nowhere to be found, how can she possibly survive long enough to save her sister? Because there’s only one thing she knows for certain anymore: Liz is innocent. And she’ll do everything she can to prove it.

He’ll see her imprisoned for life or dead at his feet.

Tasked with bringing in a forbidden child of the gods, Rogan never expected this job to be easy. But finding out she’s his lifemate, the literal other half of his soul, has just made his mission a hel of a lot harder. For now he has to make a choice:

Use his lifemate as bait.

Or damn the worlds to Niflhel.

Review:
I have never felt so betrayed and lied to by booktok as by this book. This book had an interesting premise, but was full of clichés and insta-affection and love with a token virgin and honestly, I kept reading to see if it ever picked up and got better and it never really did. By chapter 27 Emma decides to “stretch and exercise”, going on about how she’d trained that previously with her mom despite having done nothing to indicate this ever throughout the novel previously. A lot of things seemed to gratuitously disappear or reappear, such as her “nightmares” which were never truly explained and just disappeared off. The use of a lifemate, and one soul being ripped in two and needing to find it’s match was a neat idea but ended up with instant love and weird magic issues that made no sense. As for the spicy scenes, there sure are a lot of them, and for being a virgin she sure seems able to go a multitude of times and never any mention of being sore etc. A very peculiar and weird tale. I did like some of the background characters and would have enjoyed hearing more about them, but overall would like to wipe this from my memory and pretend I never heard of it. This book is not on kindle unlimited, so I did buy a copy, but honestly… just… skip this one.

Star rating: ✯✯