Review: I so wanted to rate this higher
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2012
I started out into this story because it was believable, well written, and really made me feel as though I was there---then things went haywire.  When the continuous rude and nasty Jaelean came into the story and then the Hearts (Lethal, Onyx, King, Blaque, & Sheriff) I started to lose interest.  At one point I actually laughed out loud and I don't think I was suppose to.It seem as though someone else took over the writing and didn't know which direction to take--so they decided to run off the road.  All the characters were just rambling around with Kimberly asking silly-azz questions at the dinner table.  Jona not telling the man she loves that his killers were at the table with him and so on.  Then there was the past gang rape and Jona being a sex slave story told and forgotten. The girl had enough tests done to make sure she was clean until I thought, what about playa James?  But somewhere near the end James got lost and became just a byline--hell, his character became weak. There was enough b*t*hes and honky (courtesy of the Hearts)to make one grimace.In other words, what was a tender, touching survival story of two lost souls became a disappointment.  The number of characters and sub plots increases so much that the story became ridiculous.  I went from staying up late the first night to making myself read the rest (to tell the truth I started scanning through the story--got to read about Zilla aka Shadow, dancers Nevada & Paris, and even Mandingo, yep, Mandingo).  I thought I had hit a gold mine when I started reading this story, but alas it was just fool's gold.