Kay Cove

Tattletale

ARC Read • No Spoilers • 3.75/5⭐️ • 2/5🌶️

I want to start my thanking Kay Cove for the ARC of Tattletale in exchange for an honest review.

Tattletale is the second book part of the PALADIN series. It follows Lance and Cricket who you do meet in the first book. I don’t want to tell you too much about PALADIN it’s honestly a way better experience going into it blind and learning about it than for me to try to explain it.

It was a good book and as usual Kay’s writing style is amazing and keeps you so invested  as the story plays out. I will say though this was a little different from the first book. I loved the vibe that the first book had imagined the second book would be similar. But to me it was a little different. This books played out differently and based on the tropes I guess it makes sense, it’s just that you don’t have a lot about these characters from the first book other than who they are, some of their relationship that is established by those character’s thoughts, and one scene at the end of the first book that would leave you with questions. Personally I think it’s hard to have this particular trope—which from my reading experience I would say is a friends to lovers to enemies to lovers—in just a singular book. This is a trope you see for at the very least a duet because there is a lot more build that makes better sense. It was accomplished in this book and it was good it just kind of took it away from my reading experience to make it great. I also felt like the romance took a backseat to the dynamics of PALADIN in the book too. Which would be okay had I known about that being a bigger piece of the book. Which also took away from it being great to me. It didn’t completely balance out because it all transitioned very quickly and I think I wished I could have had more Lance and Cricket with the two together than what I had. Because from my reading experience I think they were separated more than together in scenes throughout the book, and not from being a couple, I mean actually being in the same place at the same time.

But like it said it was a good book, and just like the Whistleblower bonus epilogue this one was just as amazing or better. It really makes you want to pick up the next book immediately, and I know I will in 2025.

And let me finish out by saying this was my particular reading experience. Everyone has different thoughts and reactions to books. There have been other amazing creators and readers would absolutely loved every second of this book. And I liked it there was just those things that took away from it being great like when I read Whistleblower to being good, but is still a book I highly recommend to check it out because it is very different and I haven’t come across a book like it yet.

Thank you again to Kay Cove for letting me read the ARC and I highly recommend for y’all to go check it out now!

Priscilla Stanfield

Tattletale • By: Kay Cove

ARC Read • No Spoilers • 3.75/5⭐️ • 2/5🌶️

I want to start my thanking Kay Cove for the ARC of Tattletale in exchange for an honest review.

Tattletale is the second book part of the PALADIN series. It follows Lance and Cricket who you do meet in the first book. I don’t want to tell you too much about PALADIN it’s honestly a way better experience going into it blind and learning about it than for me to try to explain it.

It was a good book and as usual Kay’s writing style is amazing and keeps you so invested  as the story plays out. I will say though this was a little different from the first book. I loved the vibe that the first book had imagined the second book would be similar. But to me it was a little different. This books played out differently and based on the tropes I guess it makes sense, it’s just that you don’t have a lot about these characters from the first book other than who they are, some of their relationship that is established by those character’s thoughts, and one scene at the end of the first book that would leave you with questions. Personally I think it’s hard to have this particular trope—which from my reading experience I would say is a friends to lovers to enemies to lovers—in just a singular book. This is a trope you see for at the very least a duet because there is a lot more build that makes better sense. It was accomplished in this book and it was good it just kind of took it away from my reading experience to make it great. I also felt like the romance took a backseat to the dynamics of PALADIN in the book too. Which would be okay had I known about that being a bigger piece of the book. Which also took away from it being great to me. It didn’t completely balance out because it all transitioned very quickly and I think I wished I could have had more Lance and Cricket with the two together than what I had. Because from my reading experience I think they were separated more than together in scenes throughout the book, and not from being a couple, I mean actually being in the same place at the same time.

But like it said it was a good book, and just like the Whistleblower bonus epilogue this one was just as amazing or better. It really makes you want to pick up the next book immediately, and I know I will in 2025.

And let me finish out by saying this was my particular reading experience. Everyone has different thoughts and reactions to books. There have been other amazing creators and readers would absolutely loved every second of this book. And I liked it there was just those things that took away from it being great like when I read Whistleblower to being good, but is still a book I highly recommend to check it out because it is very different and I haven’t come across a book like it yet.

Thank you again to Kay Cove for letting me read the ARC and I highly recommend for y’all to go check it out now!

Tattletale

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