Review: White Flags!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2013
**ARC provided by author for an honest review**4.5 Hearts*PLEASE NOTE* If you have not read the first book in this series, Red Flags, my review may contain spoilers.After finishing Red Flags, the first book in this series, I was convinced of two things. First, Jason was a complete and total butthead. And second, Cara was a total idiot. I just could not wrap my brain around how a girl could let her boyfriend treat her the way Jason treated Cara. Yeah he had his good moments, but for the most part he was a total "insert words not allowed by amazon here"!!!So, i bet you are now asking yourself "why would she read Enlightened then?". Well, I can answer that for you! One, because I kinda had to. I was invested in the story by the end of Red Flags. Yes, it ticked me off to no end, but I had to know if Cara was stupid enough for fall for Jason's BS after what happened at the end of the first book. And well, because the author asked me to. She wanted me to give Jason a chance to redeem himself.I didn't think it would happen though.After reading Enlightened, I will now eat those words. While Jason will not be appearing on any of my BBF list, he did in fact redeem himself. And that is surprising because i truly did not like him the least little bit in Red Flags. i have to give him mad props for giving Cara the space she said she needed though. So much space, that he was actually MIA for a good portion of the book. i also have to give him credit for fixing the things about himself he realized made him a complete jerk!And Cara! Oh, how I was proud of her in this book. She stood her ground for so much longer then I thought she would. She allowed herself time away from Jason to not only get her head on straight, but to get more of the story. I think all the pieces of information she gathered from people that were NOT Jason, even those who were not his supporters, helped her make the right decision in the end about him.A couple of people who I am NOT fans of are Mila and Chase. We get the back story of Chase and Cara's history in this book, and I have to say, I feel pretty dumb myself for ever being on Team Chase. And Mila, well I didn't like her in the first book and my feelings for her did not improve in this one either. She just does not feel like a good friend to Cara.Overall, Enlightened was a great read. You won't see much in way of smexy until after the half way point. But the chemistry between Cara and Jason was the one thing I actually did love about them from the beginning. So, when you do finally get to the hot and steamy, it is worth the wait! Quite a few issues get resolved, while some not so much (Jason's relationship with his dad for one). But there is a HEA and no cliffhanger, so that earns it an extra half star in my eyes!!