Review: Check your library for "The Game" first!!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
If you have it you do not want this book. I do not even remember how long ago I bought "the game" from the same author. It is one and the same with this one, The sinister game. So if you read it already, you do not need to pay for it a second time. Like I did... Because I didn't know authors can do that without warning. To sell the same book under different title. Apparently they can. So that was your warning.The first book it was the raw talent that I liked. The plot was exciting and the interaction between Victor and Victoria always hot. As the years passed the author matured, but the edited copy lost something of its primary passion. Thank God the one weakness of the first book, re telling the same scene up to three times, was mended on this one, but the passion scenes were brutally butchered too...Victoria's friendship with April and the sweet scene between them that fateful night that she gained her flying ability was eliminated however the author spend more than a page worth of words to explain how the Arthurs now got individual names. No explanation was given how easily the almost immortals gamers gave up their power to stay young for ever or where they would draw power now that the wall was inactive.  They just wend to be plain mortals again without sweat. Another character that was eliminated was  the sweet doctor, but of course I do not know about writing so I cannot judge. I only missed her. And all this passion to meet with her sister, what happen once she freed herself? Where is Andromeda and Locke once the wall is down? Last the date night, seriously, what king of woman would dress up to concur and then plan to go hung out with friends before meeting that god of a boyfriend?  All in all it was a great concept, and the author is definitely gifted, but her choice to trust another (this) editor was poor. Unless it brought her more profit that her first novel. Since I spend another $4 to read the same story, I suspect that this might be the case... I hope the third attempt will be the charm for 5plus stars and will be free of charge if you have this title already. Or I will raise hell within the Amazon and Facebook just for the principals of this matter. Oh by the way, I am a sucker for the work of Heather Killough Walden, so far I bought and read almost everything that she published... Hope you will and enjoy it too. I know I did.