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Ace & Ember: An AURA Review

THE BOOKS DESK · REVIEW

Ace & Ember

5 stars · A hacker heroine, brother’s-best-friend tension, morally gray loyalty and enough suspense to keep the romance sharp.


Evie being a hacker immediately gave Ace & Ember a different energy for me, and pairing that with Ace — her brother’s best friend and exactly the sort of forbidden complication that guarantees trouble — made the setup very easy to fall into.

The romance has heat, but what I enjoyed was the loyalty underneath it. The characters live in morally gray territory, so affection and protection do not always arrive in neat, healthy-looking packages. That tension works especially well alongside the suspense.

It is romantic, messy, protective and spicy without losing the plot around the couple. Five stars.

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