#runious love

I was initially worried to begin the story with Fionn and Rose meeting for the first time because at the end of Leather & Lark there was such a cliffhanger. When Fionn basically took Rose home on a whim at the start of S&S and absolutely let her into his life in every possible way, it seemed like a lack of character development. Sure, Fionn wasn’t upset by the whole vigilante justice thing, but he’s the only one of the Kanes who ran from that life. He is basically in love with Rose from day one. His only hesitations are the “rules” he sets with her for no apparent reason. For a dude who was turned down when he proposed, Fionn doesn’t seem to have any qualms about that either. Sure he punches some people and gets a little emotional sometimes, but we don’t get a lot of stress from him about the situation. Leander extorts him and his reaction is basically “oh? I can see why my brothers don’t like this dude.”

When the story started lining up with the other two books, it started to feel a little rushed. I don’t think that was any fault on the author’s part. We had two novels with Sloane and Rowan and Lochlan and Lark, and those 600+ pages had to fit timeline-wise into the 300ish pages we had with Fionn and Rose. That made this book feel like it was jumping around. We don’t see Rose meeting Sloane or Lark and some other critical scenes are missing too. Maybe if I read all 3 books back to back it would feel less like I was skipping ahead every few pages.

The wrap-up for the stalker felt rushed too. It seemed like an opportunity for the group to bring Leander Mayes to some sort of justice, but instead the loose ends with him were left to flap in the wind. Does Fionn go back? How do Rowan and Lochlan feel about Fionn working with Leviathan? Why was Amanda thinking all of those negative thoughts while watching Sloane earlier on in the series?