Review: Jaded is too tame a word!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
****contains spoilers from book 1 - Jaded *****If you haven't read book 1 - stop now!This book continues approximately 1 year after the last book ended. We learn that Sheldon and Corrigan followed Bryce to Spain where his soccer career took over, but Corrigan's mom got sick and he returned home and 6 months prior, Sheldon returns home as well leaving Bryce in Spain. It begins with Bryce returning home after 6 months apart from Sheldon where they hadn't spoken and me wondering.. WHAT'S GOING ON???? gahhh!! The story had a million and one theories ringing in my head about why she returned home and why she and Bryce weren't speaking, and I was reading furiously to get to the point where I would find out!The trio were inseparable and united in the first book, and in this one, their whole relationship is tested on so many levels and they teeter on the verge of a cliff trying to grow up and figure out their feelings for each other. In the midst of all this, someone is out to get Sheldon ... AGAIN! This girl attracts stalkers like a white shirts attracts spaghetti sauce! Then the book ends with a major cliffhanger that has me groaning out loud! But I'm ok with that because Tijan is working on Carter Reed and FCP, and I can't wait to read those books too!Tijan is an amazing writer. She creates some very complicated and in-depth characters that you love and hate at the same time. I love that she doesn't create characters that wake up one day and redeem themselves by suddenly being happy and kind. She creates hardened, emotional, angry characters that stay true to their characters and who very slowly start to grow with experience and through recognizing their own mistakes. They maintain their underlining personality (good or bad). It's so true of life that people don't just change overnight and fight really hard to hide the parts of themselves that they think make them look weak and vulnerable. Sheldon, Bryce and Corrigan are so close, and yet so far apart in the lies they tell each other and the things they keep from each other, even though they think they do it out of love for each other.It's amazing how her words are able to make me feel like I'm right there in the moment, feeling the same things Sheldon is feeling and feeling her anger and hurt. I love everything Tijan writes and she's found a loyal fan in me for life!I would recommend this and the book that came before it - Jaded in a heartbeat!