Sara ❀ 🇵🇸 ❀'s Reviews > Wrath

3.5 ⭐️

｡˚༻“Peace.
It's not the thing I thought it would be. It's not out of reach or unrealistic. Doesn't involve a different life, or turning into someone else.”༺˚｡

What a fucking roller coaster!

I was pretty uncertain what to rate this book. Some parts made me feel like four stars or higher, some parts made me go three or even less.

Ezra our beautiful wreck of an MC, I hated him at the beginning, his actions were so horrible and he used every chance he got to fuck with Josh. The things he said, the way he treated Josh, it was plain horrible!

But the more I read about these two and the progress they’ve come through, I just couldn’t not fall for how much they loved each other and how much each of them depended and took strength from the other.

｡˚༻ “Whatcha thinking about?” he asks softly. 
I smile. “Feeling like we’re a couple,” I confess. 
“We are. You’re my Miller.” He hugs me tighter. “I can’t let you go.” 
“I don’t want you to.”༺˚｡

The things Ezra went through were heartbreaking, the amount of trauma and abuse he endured was devastating. I loved seeing his character development and how he progressed since the beginning.

｡˚༻“But I try to stay in the moment. I’ve realized I’m pretty shitty at it, but I’m trying more—for Miller. So he won’t have to spend time with a zombie who’s always stuck in a loop in his own mind.”༺˚｡

—> the way I felt this! Utter heartbreak.

｡˚༻“I’m not crying. If I’m lucky, I just sleep. When I wake up, I try to think about good things. But I don’t feel good. I start to cry before I know I will. But it turns into I can’t breathe.”༺˚｡

｡˚༻“Life’s just boring. I’m so tired, sleep is honestly the best thing. I don’t feel like killing myself, so I guess that’s something.”༺˚｡

Some of the scenes just melted my heart, I was swooning, I was smiling like an idiot! These two were so good together, they were the sweetest. The cuddles, the hand holdings, the hugs, THE HAND KISSES!!

｡˚༻“I bring our joined hands to my mouth so I can kiss the back of his. I can almost see his pupils dilate as he looks at me. Heart eyed, like the damn emoji. He blinks slowly, and it’s like he goes into a daze.”༺˚｡

UGH EVERYTHING!! The way they couldn’t get enough of each other and always sought the other!!

｡˚༻“And I’m holding him. I’m holding Ezra Masters. My stepbrother. The most infuriating guy I’ve ever met. The smirkiest and the cockiest and by far the most confusing. The most gorgeous…and I think maybe the most broken.”༺˚｡

—> this scene was just perfection! With them cuddling and playing this or that 😭

Now this’s my personal preference but I could’ve been more than okay with less smut scenes 😆🤭 I liked the depth and the connection they added to the relationship between the boys and some of them were even important to the story and the growth of these characters, but at times I’d feel like ’here we go again’

I was more focused on the emotional journey of these two, I loved their interactions and their banter! I loved their bond and how deep they cared for each other. AND THE NICKNAMES 😭😭
The way they called each other literally made my heart burst!!

｡˚༻“Mills?” he says again, softly.
“Yeah, angel?”
He hugs me hard, whispers, “I love you.”༺˚｡

Another thing that I didn’t like was the way Josh treated his mother, he was so rude to her on multiple occasions. And like yes I understand in all of them he was going through shit, but there’s no excuse at all to treat your mother rudely, especially when she’s as good and supportive as Josh’s.

I wanted to put more sweet lovely quotes between Josh and Ezra because they’re just TOO SWEET!! but I feel like more quotes into this review and it’d turn into a copy of the book 🤭🤭

SPOILERS
I didn’t know that this book had an amnesia trope, and I wasn’t that happy with it either. Not that I’m against amnesia specifically but because I felt like it came out of nowhere. I didn’t like how before it, Ezra was pretty depressed and had so many issues, but after his memory loss, he became nicer, softer and kinda gave me different vibes than him before. And like yes he started therapy and he was taking care of himself, but idk I feel like all that could’ve happened without him losing his memory, what it did was the one year rift between the boys and Josh going askew and down the dark road of drinks and pills.