Coming down is always way quicker but I still seem to underestimate the amount of energy and strength needed to get back down and am usually slammed by the time I reach the bottom. Thank goodness it’s cooler now or I’d probably have dehydrated into the atmosphere without a trace. Beautiful and peaceful, these mountains make for a wicked 6 hour hike rising one rock mound after the next…the things we do for drone footage. Review: Polaris Rising and Aurora Blazing by Jessi.700m up and flying from the highest peak on the Ma On Shan mountain range (saddle mountain) facing North towards China.I hope we will get our answers in the next book (about the third sister) but I still was completely satisfied with the ending here. It felt rushed and left too many plot lines unresolved. We got deeper into the Houses politics, and I enjoyed the focus on the issues of trust - how to earn one's trust, how to keep it, a promise is a promise, a sense of duty and not letting down the people who trust and rely on you. It was fast-paced, the tension was even higher than in book 1. The suspense/adventure plot was brilliant and enjoyed it a lot.
I loved how their relationship showed a lot care for each other and also mutual respect for the abilities of the other person. They bonded over their mission to save her brother and the walls they had built up around their hearts started crumbling down.
He felt responsible for keeping her safe but she hated that he saw her (only) as a damsel in distress. At the same time his position as head of security for her family added further stress to their interactions. They had a complicated history between them - he rejected her once and her pride didn't let her seek his attentions again. My heart broke for her and the secret she had to keep from everyone and at the same time I was in absolute awe of her strength and resilience (very much like Ian when he allowed himself to admit it). On the good side, Bianca reminded me of Nalini Singh's psy characters but more human. It's sort of enemies to lovers romance, again slow burn like the previous book in the series and while not as developed as I wanted it to be, I believed in the romance and their HEA.
Book 1 made me super excited for Bianca's story and it indeed started great but just like with Ada's story, the romance plot lost track somewhere around the middle and the suspense/adventure took too much center stage for my liking.
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