Review: Incredible Series by an Amazing Author!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
When I finished The Edge of Darkness, I was in utter despair.  I turned to my best friend and said something akin to, "OMFG ... you have got to be f***ing kidding me?!  That's how it ends?!" Yeah ... okay so I was quite distraught.  I wanted my Ryland and Araya together and happy.  I wanted J.D. Dare to be dead (and I mean at the bottom of a flaming pit of molten lava while he feels every inch of his skin burned off his body kind of dead).  I wanted Careless to pay and I just felt bad for Sebastian always getting the crap end in life.When I heard we were going to be hosting the second tour I was ecstatic and nervous about how Melissa Andrea would proceed with The Grace in Darkness.  Araya has gone off to her high brow fine art school to learn how to be on her own and more importantly so J.D. can continue to keep Ryland away from the one person he holds most dear in his world.  Ryland in the meantime has found her, he knows where she is at but having seen her happy, dancing again, couldn't bring himself to pop her bubble and risk J.D. taking her away from him again.  He bides his time and squeaks by working day in and day out for J.D. at his miserable company.  Ryland can't stand working with his sister who has also come to work for J.D. because she has nothing really better to do with her time.  He's still living with Sebastian and can't really stand that either because he feels like Sebastian could have stopped Araya from walking out of his apartment that night and walking into J.D.'s wicked plan to keep them apart.As the story progresses in The Grace in Darkness, Araya we find is coping with her new life. She's definitely happy to be dancing again and to be more independent.  Boys are taking notice of how gorgeous and amazing she is.  One in particular, her dancing partner, would love to get better acquainted with her outside of being great friends.  But Araya's thoughts always stray to the one boy she knows she needs to stay away from.  She has no idea that he's checked in on her and kept his distance for her safety.  Can they get together and defeat the evil that is J.D. once and for all?  Check out the book for the answer!Amazing book and amazing series.  The character development is incredible.  Melissa nails your emotional grid to the wall ... I cried, I laughed, I fist pumped, and I cheered and somewhere in between I still wanted to kill J.D.  Ryland and Araya grow so much as characters throughout the series ... their emotions were my emotions, it was real and raw and breathtaking.  I wouldn't change a thing!  I can't wait to read more books by this incredible author.  This is one series you don't want to miss!