Abandoned Things By Chani Lynn Feener

*Received a copy of Abandoned Things through BookSirens and am leaving this review voluntarily.

Abandoned Things is an MM Romance Fantasy novel by Chani Lynn Feener. We follow Frankie, a college student that’s the author of a popular web novel, Gold and Silver. To wrap up the series, he decided to kill off his favorite character, Rook. It makes sense for his arc and the story, but Frankie is a sobbing mess because of it, getting drunk so he can write Rook’s death. When he sends the chapter to a publishing friend, he thinks all he has left is to write the last chapters, but it goes out the window when Rook shows up at his apartment and demands a better ending for himself. Oh yeah, the story follows Rook’s perspective too.

Rook wants a different ending to his story, one that ends with him alive and with the girl, the female lead. But something is messing with Frankie’s story behind the scenes, so Rook and Frankie team up to get the story back on track, catching feelings for each other on the journey.

I’m so relieved Rook quit it with the threatening-Frankie-with-violence-to-prove-a-point stuff because there was no way I’d root for their relationship if Rook kept reminding Frankie he could easily kill him, especially after Frankie revealed his trauma. I hate when aggression and violence get overlooked in romances. Later in the story, Frankie calls out Rook’s possessive and overprotective behavior when they’re serious, which I appreciate so much.

There are a ton of typos; some readers were frustrated by the errors and it took them out of the story, but I was so engaged it didn’t really phase me. I am mixed about the villain. I wasn’t really sold by the reveal and their actions came off as cartoonish since they were just power-hungry.

I loved the story though, Feener is a solid writer and I’m looking forward to reading her other books.

4 stars from me!