I found myself really emotionally compelled by the moth and the flame metaphor in particular. I also just thought this book in general did a really great job of using metaphor. This is purely because he is one of my favorite Roman gods and I really love the myth. I have loved how much mythology shows up in MacLean's books in the past but was absolutely delighted about the Janus integration. The reader knows this man is building his own trap, and it really propelled me through this book. You begin the book in Devil's POV, and get to see his motivations pretty clearly and quickly. The reader sees the hurt that is hurtling towards these characters and absolutely cannot look away. It is a little bit like looking at a crash about to happen. I thought that MacLean built the conflict in this book so well. I just found the word play and conversation in this book to be really really well done. I legitimately had trouble because I was underlining too much of the dialogue and it was slowing down my reading. The banter in this book is absolutely top notch. This book had everything I have loved about a MacLean book in the past, it just also takes an additional step. So it was really interesting to read this book just feel like MacLean had just kind of leveled up. I have been reading all of Sarah MacLean's books in publication order and have really liked them all, and really loved many of them. I had a tremendous time reading this book.
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