Review: Not a "book 2"--a book 1 plus new material
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 29, 2013
Spoiler alert:I was not happy, upon finishing book 1 and purchasing book 2 to discover that the last chapter of book 1 was the first chapter of book 2 (and neither book was long enough to justify the repetition).  But the problem grew. Near the end of book 1 (but prior to the final chapter), the heroine has elements of her memories removed.  Substantial portions of book 2 consist of large chunks (several pages at a time) of book 1, as her memory returns.  The only difference is that the chunks were in normal font in Book 1 and are in italics in Book 2.  Book 1 had rather a long start-up section set in high school that was essentially irrelevant to the plot and none of that was repeated.Incidentally, the romance and father/father figure elements consistently show that men are, without exception, manipulative, lying, and self-centered to the point of being evil.  In fact, almost everyone over the age of 12--other than the heroine--is manipulative, lying, and self-centered although some of the women seem to have the heroine's best interests at heart (a couple of the women are just nit-wits).  I found that perspective a bit annoying, but I could have lived with it had I not paid for a second book only to get the first book again, minus the extended high school set up, plus perhaps a novella's (maybe a short story's?) worth of new material.Books 1 and 2, with tighter plotting, would have made a decent single book.