Emoji Review by Rebecca Dixon
I finished reading Wrath and Rain Series Book 1, 2, AND 3 by Nikki St Crowe and it was a GREAT 🤩, LEAN, MODERN, & STEAMY 🔥 Enemies-to-lovers, PNR! (FYI, I’m not affiliated with the author, not in the book biz, reading is just a HOBBY, and I’m just a regular reader that is super passionate 💗 about spreading the word on GREAT books!) There are NO spoilers 🙌🏻!
So the FIRST 👆🏻 thing to mention here… that EVERYONE always asks 😅… is it a COMPLETED series?! Why YES, yes it is 🙌🏻! I’ve been reading A LOT of Nikki St. Crowe books lately and I have to tell you, this lady KNOWS how to HOOK 🪝 you (no PUN intended for her other series, The Never King 🧚♀️ 😁) … so yeah, she HOOK’s 🪝 you from the beginning and gives you a FAST-PACED 🚘 story that is detailed enough to have you book BINGE, but LEAN enough (and short enough!) that it isn’t a major commitment of time 🕰 ! You literally can knock out 👊🏻 ANY of her books or series on either a Sunday afternoon ☀️ or a weekend 🌴 ! And for someone who is a software engineer by day and have BLURRY 😵💫 eyes by night 🌙 , this is EXACTLY 👌🏻 the type of books I prefer! So if you LOVE ❤️ to page-turn a fabulous, STEAMY 🔥 paranormal romance and don’t want to commit WEEKS-ON-END 😩 to a MASSIVE series, her books are IDEAL 🙌🏻 (Chef’s kiss 💋 💋💋!)
OK ✅! So THIS series 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!! It kicks 🦵 off in a world 🌎 like ours where The Demon King 👹 has made his presence known in a pretty DRAMATIC 🎭 way (by kicking the g0vernment’s HINEY 😮😅!) So it starts with our girl, Rain 🌧 (yep her Mom’s name is Sunny ☀️😆 ,) who is JUST trying to make ends meet in life & has gone OUT OF HER WAY to IGNORE 🙄 everything on TV/Instagram/TikTok/F-B (you name it!) about this HOT 🥵, SEX-A-FALISH 🍆 Demon King! She will NOT be just one of the thousands of DROOLING 🤤 fans, DANGNAMMIT 😩😂! Which is all FINE & DANDY until one day she runs 🏃🏻♀️ into him in an alley and finds out that even though SHE may NOT want to be one of the thousands… she can’t do a DANG thing about being the ONLY one in the THOUSANDS that HE pays attention to…. 🔥🔥🔥
RIGHT! So SERIOUSLY, off the bat I was hooked!!! This is a GREAT 👍🏻 story set in the modern world and it’s super COOL 😎 that the cat 🐱 is out of the bag (i.e., everyone knows about The Demon King 🤴!) I love that it has MODERN 📱 technology and has a SUPER neat, unique plotline that I haven’t read anything really similar to (which is saying A LOT with how much THIS 🙋🏻♀️ girl reads 😆!)
This IS an enemies-to-lovers trope 🥷 ➕ 💘! And oh boy, it’s just the RIGHT amount of YUMMY 😋 ! Wrath is a VILLIAN, but we pretty much immediately LOVE ❤️🔥 this guy from the get-go & instead, want to SMACK 🤜🏻 the you-know-what out of Rain on occasion 😅! But hey, KEEP READING if you feel the same way I did because TRUST ME 👌🏻, it doesn’t take long for situations to COME TOGETHER 🥵 & for the pretty great STEAM 🔥 that Nikki is famous for… to KICK-IN 🦵 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!!
This author KNOWS 💡 how to write ✍️ that romantic ANGST ❤️🔥 leading up to some pretty HOT 🔥 STEAM and she DOESN’T disappoint in this series 🙌🏻! If you LOVE ❤️🔥 Bran in Hot Vampire Next Door 🩸 or Peter Pan/The Lost Boys in The Never King 🧚♀️ … your gonna LEGIT LOVE Wrath!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 He is HOT 🥵 HOT 🥵 HOT 🥵! All possessive, controlling, but like… a SWEETHEART 💘 underneath it all! He’s got some MAD game in the bedroom 🛌 department (or shall I say rooftop 🏙 department?!) 😁😁😁 And don’t get me started on his sub-dimensional travelling… I FREAKING love BADA$S 🤺 POWERFUL 💥 MMCs that basically show up WHENEVER and WHEREVER the HELL they want for THEIR girl! Every time this guy found Rain, I was like…. yesssssss 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 here we go 🙌🏻!!! Annnnd I love ❤️, love ❤️, love ❤️ a FMC that is like… oh yeah?!? You plan to keep me here 😠?! Ummm.. that’s a big fat Hellllllll NO buddy!!!… so… C-YA 👋🏻! (meanwhile our guy’s standing there with a deer-in-the-headlights look 😳 while our girl is peacing out ☮️ by outwitting him with her escape 🏃🏻♀️ 😂😂😂!)
The other thing that I really LOVED 🥰 about this series… that I don’t usually get to talk about in reviews (since they are usually just for a SINGLE book 📕 and not the WHOLE series 📚 )… is this series actually had a GREAT 😊 message underneath it all! Really EMPOWERING 💪🏻 and there are definitely some PARALLELS to how HEALTHY, real-world romantic relationships SHOULD function. Which, is a pretty IMPRESSIVE 😮 feat since this is an enemies-to-lovers trope! Seriously! You get to the end and your like… OK that was a really FUN 🤩 ride, with GREAT steam 🔥, a HOT 🥵 MMC, a COOL 😎 story… but like… a really FANTASTIC message 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! I DIDN’T see that coming actually and at one point I was like… ughhhh NOOOOOO why did that happen to our boy 😠😩…. But just hang on … it will ALL MAKE SENSE 💡… and it was WELL WORTH IT! Really FREAKING cool! 🙌🏻
I usually write reviews once I finish a single book, but with this series, I just read book after book after book! (thank you 🙏🏻 thank you 🙏🏻 thank you 🙏🏻 Nikki for writing a series that I could literally digest over a weekend ☀️ and binge the heck out of!) There were great CLIFFHANGERS 🪨 that just kept me page-turning right into the NEXT 👉🏻 book! And I kept thinking I’ll write that review later, because like… I need to read the next book NOW! 😆😆😆
And now… for my SHAMELSS 😁 BEGGING 🙏🏻 moment to the author (the AMAZING 🤩 & FABULOUS 💋 Nikki St. Crowe!)… GIRL! You KNOW you LEFT the ending of Book 3 a PERFECT 👌🏻 combo of a satisfying HEA and at the same time… the PERFECT 👌🏻 SEGWAY to 3 MORE books, right !?! 😆😆😆 We NEED more Wrath & Reign (ooops…typo 😅… RAIN 🌧 !) and I’m salivating at what could happen in the next realm 🌎 (errrr… I mean book 📕 😁😆!)
So if you LOVE a series you can knock out 🤜🏻 quickly, that is LEAN & MODERN 📱 , has HOT STEAM 🔥 and a HOT 🥵 HOT 🥵 HOT 🥵 MMC, is enemies-to-lovers with a cool 😎 & unique story, and has a GREAT 🥰 message at the end… this is Free on KU! Give it a shot! You never know, it may be just the series to add a little bit of sunshine ☀️ to your REIGNy 🌧 weekend!
