Review: Jade C. Jamison does it again!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
***THIS BOOK WAS GIVEN TO ME IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW***Before you read this book, you need to read book one, Bullet, in order to understand the story. If you’ve read Bullet, then you’ve got Val’s side of the story. In Fully Automatic, you get Brad’s side of things.  I’d also recommend reading book two Rock Bottom so that you’ll understand what Ethan goes through after Val leaves him and he goes to rehab.  I loved reading Brad’s story mainly because in Bullet, I could tell he was hiding things from Val and didn’t know what those things were, but in this book it’s all laid out for me. Jade C. Jamison does a great job of showing us that Brad isn’t just a lovesick man pining after his best friend’s girl. She shows us that despite the heartache and pain that he’s capable of being everyone’s rock, even when it feels like nobody is there for him. Sometimes though I just wanted to yell at him for not standing up to Ethan about how he treats Val as well as standing up to Val and letting her know that he genuinely loves her. There were several times where my heart just hurt from all the pain he goes through, not just with Val but with Ethan and the other women he meets. Even though there are parts that are retold (mainly speaking parts from Bullet between Brad, Val and Ethan), this is not the same book as Bullet; we get all of Brad just like we got all of Val. The characters are relatable and the life of a struggling band on the road is believable, as is Ethan’s drug use. It feels like you’re really in the story and not just an outsider even though this book isn’t written in first person. I highly recommend you give not just this book a try, but the whole series.