From international bestselling author, Emily McIntire, comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining ofThe Wizard of Oz.

Big Brother Worship: Gender-inverted. Eveline has loved and idolized her late older sister, Nessa, even after her death.

Though they can't stand one another, something keeps bringing them together. Both come into conflicts as ugly truths come to the surface and the pair come to discover more in common than they believed. The tension swirling around our bodies is overwhelming, and I don’t know what it is I’m feeling, only that nothing else has ever felt like it. Opening her eyes, she twists in my arms to look up at my face.” Et Tu, Brute?: When Cody reveals himself to be a federal agent working undercover as a way to get dirt on Eveline, she expresses these thoughts to him as he was about to arrest her. Cowardly Lion: Zeke, whose only reason for being involved in illegal activities was because of his late father's time as a criminal and with Eveline's father. However, when Eveline was in danger of being killed by her father, he takes action and shoots Farrell dead.

This is a book that is one of my most anticipated reads of the year and after reading the first two books of the series, I really loved what the author created with this series. There was a TON of hype surrounding this book, especially on bookstagram. It is a more unique retelling, this is where we have a “Wizard of Oz” theme to it, it’s not a straight-up retelling, but I was really intrigued by how this author was writing this series here. I really wanted to see more of what this author would deliver in this story. Now I won’t lie in that I was nervous as the author had written a heroine that is the villain (kinda). But honestly, I felt like its very rare for a anti-heroine to work for me, but i did like it for the most part even though it didn’t quite work as much as I had hoped for. I do think that this book is a bit overhyped, in my opinion,. While I liked it overall, the first book “Hooked” still wins for me. Big Damn Heroes: Nicholas arrives in time to shoot Cody, preventing Eveline's arrest and allowing her to escape before the feds arrive. Eveline Westerly had lost her older sister, Nessa. What's more, she is part of her father's drug trade empire that distributes a powerful illegal drug called "the Flying Monkey". When new recruits are brought in, she can't shake the feeling something isn't right about them.Cody is also revealed to be an undercover agent sent to catch the supplier of the Flying Monkey drug. From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Wizard of Oz. The Irish Mob: The Westerly family, with Farrell carrying pride in his Irish heritage as the leader, is basically this with their drug trade built on profit.

But if I’m her calm, then she is my chaos, and if I can’t live with her forever, then I don’t want to live at all. My Review First Impressions Notorious Parent: Farrell Westerly is the leader of the drug trade with a criminal rap sheet, and the father of Dorothy and Eveline. I lie with her, and she with me.” He pauses, and then suddenly his tongue is on me, swirling in small circles around the sensitive nerves. I whimper, heat shooting down my legs. His tongue disappears. “And in our faults by lies we flattered be.” What I Struggled With

Nicholas Woodsworth is an undercover agent with a hatred of criminals and an eye out for pretty ladies. When he enters the Westerly drug trade under a different name to undermine them, his path crosses with Eveline - who he had met once in a club before taking the job. I also stream a variety of things over on Twitch with stream highlights and VODs posted on my YouTube Channel, and clips shared on my Clips YouTube Channel. I’m curious to see what the next book in the series is going to be. I still think a Little Mermaid would be interesting, especially from a dark, fractured “re-telling” perspective. But that might be hard since I doubt there would be actual mermaids involved (these don’t involve magic or fantasy creatures, though that could always change), but it could be pirate-themed, which would be interesting. Have you read the Never After Series or any of these books? If so, what did you think?