Review: Still a fan...But expected better.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2012
This was definitely an E-Book short....and it was over before you knew it. We got  a little background on Carter Diamond beginning at the age of 18 and his transition from a locksmith in Flint to a young drug dealer in Miami but even those events left alot to be desired. I felt like something in between those 2 events in his life was not throughly explained and I still felt a slight void.One minute he's against being a drug dealer for the reasons he explained to Polo and then the next he doing just the opposite with no "detailed" in between. I noticed that Carter came off as a bit hyprocritical at times.Of course once he moves to Miami he meets Taryn and we are finally introduced to her and her family. But honestly I was more interested in his relationship with Tonya....so much that I decided to go back and re read the beginning of The Cartel and I noticed that there are quite a few inconsistencies concerning them and the reason why Carter left.Their whole relationship left me with more questions than answers which I hope to get in the continuation of this series.It's obvious they have alot of unfinished business.So far I dont appreciate how Carter is doing Tonya and im curious as to how this lil love triangle is going to play out.I noticed that there were alot of grammatical errors which led me to believe that this book may have been rushed. There was places where Breeze name was where Taryn's needed to be which may have been confusing to most.Some words were repeated twice in a sentence and punctuation was all over the place.There was really no solid story line as of yet, this was basically an introduction to Carter...so if you are looking forward to a typical A&J; read with lots of twists,turns and jaw dropping moments then you will not get it in this one.The ending of course leaves you with a cliffhanger which did nothing for me at all. Usually at the end of most e books in a series,the ending is supposed to leave you in awe,shock or in anticipation of the next.This ending did none of that. It only made me realize that maybe this should have been a full novel instead of the authors feeding us a few chapters at a time and having the nerve to call it an e-series. Not cool at all. Overall this was just an ok read but like everyone else I fell into the hype and was left slightly disappointed. Hopefully the rest of the series will be better because judging by this we have a long way to go.