Review: Welcome back to Petal
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
This is really a 3.5 star rating.One of my all time favourite series is the Chase brothers. I was so happy when Lauren continued the series in Petal as there are so many wonderful characters to continue writing about and the Murphy family has been wonderful to follow.You can never read too much about Polly Chase and Edward is really becoming another force to be reckoned with!Caroline Mendoza and Royal Watson have a wonderful chemistry together and having such a strong female character was fantastic. Lauren made Royal very supportive but also showed how he could be strong for Caroline at the right times as well as knowing when to step back and let Caroline stay true to herself.The only disappointment was further into the book, there were a number of times that I needed to re-read paragraphs as it was difficult to tell who was speaking. Then there were random sentences that didn't lead anywhere or make sense in the context that they were written. It became disjointed in places, interrupting the potential of a free flowing story that you want to be immersed in.I really wanted this to be a 5 star book as I enjoy this series. The storyline was fascinating and the characters are captivating so I am looking forward to the next Petal book.