Review: Felt forced
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2012
I loved the series, read all the other books at least 3 times!I enjoyed the book, but thought that the plot felt very forced thru the first 70% of the book "had to make myself read parts of it".  The characters Jake, Ayan, and Jason all suffered from severe personality changes early on, it was hard to understand the reason, because all of them had been thru worse and not changed before.  Ayan's new romantic interest has a very clumsy build up and unexplained timing! I mean why now in the plot? why not before when there was more motive an opportunity?  The other characters seemed to move thru the book very well with no glaring inconsistencies.  This helped the plot a lot, but did not salvage it.Framework felt like a book in a deferent series.  I liked the ending and enjoyed the changes to Alice which seemed to fit well within what was hinted at in the earlier books.  All but the last 30% of the book was all over the place and a strain to read compared to the earlier books.3 to 3.5 stars because I loved the rest of the books so much, but I'm picky and think the author tried to change the characters personality to drive the story a certain direction and forced the book too much.  Situations and conflict within the established moral code is understandable, but when the moral code of a character gets warped to fit the story it leaves the reader feeling conflicted and eats away at their relationship.