Review: Just a bit disappointed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
Really I would give Thrive a 3.5 if I could because I did enjoy it but I did have one major problem with it. I think that having six characters who are so completely intertwined has finally caught up to this series. I was excited to read Thrive because I really wanted to see the way that Lily and Lo dealt with her being pregnant so I was a bit disappointed that we started so far back from where we left them in Hothouse Flower. I think novels in series or companion novels that deal with the same events just from a different POV are very very trick to execute because you want the story to remain fresh and to not just rehash the events in the same. I won't say that Thrive failed completely in this aspect but I found myself skipping over chapters where I felt there wasn't anything new being offered. Even though we were getting the information from Lily and Lo a lot of this information had been given to us by other characters in previous books or if it hadn't been it was pretty easy to deduce information. This is why I say that having these six characters so completely intertwined is a bit of a downfall because although Kiss the Sky and Hothouse Flower focus on Rose/Connor and Ryke/Daisy they aren't just about those couples specifically we are still immersed in the other character's relationships in those books. I would have much rather had Thrive start around the time of Lo's relapse because that's when I feel like things change and the characters are finally challenged in new ways. I did not like that the book spent all this time going over the same events and we're given maybe three chapters of actual new material before it ends. I'm still excited to see where the series go but definitely felt let down by this addition to the series.