Ravenhood Duet || Book Review

There are two types of romance readers in this world. Those who enjoy reading about the sweet and soft kind of love between two regular people and those who are into the fucked up type of romance. Romance books where the main character would do anything for his girl, is ready to burn down the whole world for her and would do anything to anyone that hurts his girl even if killing, torture or maiming is involved.

After my last read, I wanted to read another book and I came across the book Flock by Kate Stewart. l found the title intriguing. I kept on questioning myself times without numbers if this book was worth the read just because of the title that did not seem to give away anything. I finally quit contemplating and went ahead to see for myself if it'll be worth the read.

I started the book and halfway into it, I realized that it's the first book in the Ravenhood duet. I actually didn't plan on reading any book with a sequel. I would have opted for a standalone if i had known but I'm glad it was this duet I read.
The Ravenhood duet by Kate Stewart consists of two books Flock and Exodus respectively. Both books explore themes like enemies to lover, age-gap, coming of age, gang, drug, violence and explicit sex and are written from one character's point of view.

The book Flock opens with Cecilia driving back to a place where she had spent an unforgettable summer. The place where she experienced the sick and distorted type of love. She ran away from her husband who she feels she doesn't deserve and is on a drive back to the town where she had the best time of her life 6 years ago.

Then, in the next chapter, we're transported back to when she was 19. Cecelia Horner, born to divorced parents, agrees to her father's request to work in his company for a year and get her inheritance at 20. Though unwilling, Cecilia agreed to her father's request just so she can help herself and her sick mom live a comfortable life.

On her first day at work, she gets to meet a young man named Sean who acts the nicest towards her in the company. The rest of the workers kept giving her an attitude just because she is the daughter of their employer.

She continues to work at the company and gets closer to Sean. Sean has a group of friends he hangs out with after work. She begins to hang out with them and at the same time, a romantic relationship begins to blossom between her and Sean. She is accepted by everyone in the group except one named Dominic.

Dominic is one of Sean's roommates and his closest friend. They're literally brothers. He's the only friend of Sean's who seems to be having a hard time accepting Cecelia. Disregarding the bad blood between them, they are both attracted to each other. Although, there's no way their attraction can be brought to the surface as long as Cecilia is in a romantic relationship with Sean.

As Cecilia continues to spend time with Sean, she begins to realize that she doesn't really know much about Sean except his name, age and the fact that he works in her father's company. Sean kept a whole lot of secrets about himself away from her. Most especially the main reason why he's in Triple Falls.

The book Exodus then continues from Cecelia's life after finding out about all the secrets Sean kept away from her and how it destroyed their relationship. Although, her relationship with Sean is forced to end because of some reasons I would rather not disclose so as to avoid spoilers, Another unexpected love story occurs in this book.

Like I said in the beginning, I was fascinated by the title and when I decided to see for myself what it was about, I got hooked. I just kept on flipping pages, in need of answers every now and then. This book has the tendency and the ability to get you glued to your screen or the pages or whatever you're reading it from.

I liked the suspense this book entailed. I liked how clever the characters were portrayed although I can't say the same for Cecilia in some cases. I liked the humour in the series. I liked how awestruck some scenes left me. I liked how unpredictable it was. As I kept progressing into both books, the plot twists kept getting bigger and bigger and although I'm not really a fan of too much plot twists in books, dramas or whatever, I found these ones oddly satisfying. Every character had something peculiar about them and I loved that about this book.

Although the first book (Flock) was written almost perfectly, the book Exodus seemed to lack a substantial plot pertaining to it. It was initially meant to be the continuation and finalisation of events in the first book but at one point, the main purpose was abandoned and we just seemed to be going around in circles. There was nothing I could point out was going on in the book anymore. It contained too many side stories, and refused to focus on the main thing it was meant to focus on from the first book. This still did not make me drop the book, Lol. I completed it nonetheless.

Also, I must point out the fact that this is the first book I didn’t gross out due to the number of sex scenes contained in it. Weirdly, I found it suitable and it is so unlike me😂 who gets irked when smut scenes get the better part of a book.

Overall, I’ll rate this book 7/10. It was a nice read although one I don’t think I will revisit.

Now please, at this point, I refuse to read books according to my discretion anymore. The last three books I read contained some scenes I don’t think I want to read anytime soon again. So please, I need book recommendations. Mind-blowing, toe-curling, fantastic book recommendations. I read so many genres so please feel free to share with me whatever recommendations you have. Thanks so much in advance.

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