Review: One of my three favoite series ever
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2014
“Elect” is the perfect sequel of “Elite” and meets all my criteria for a five-star-rating. It doesn’t disappoint me at all. I connected with the story, felt the character's emotions, couldn’t put the book away and devoured it. I read it in a day and it was interesting, exciting, thrilling and fun. The multiple storylines of the book proves my point that contemporary romance novels that don’t focus solely on the love, sex and relationship of the main characters are better than stories with single storyline. Only a few books with single storylines have the same amount of suspense. But I admit the love triangle between Trace, Nixon and Chase is a page-turner, surrounded with the other plots is it perfect. The arc of suspense is elaborated very well.Van Dyken's writing style and narration is still amazing, detailed and vivid enough to connect with the story. While “Elite” has only Trace's first-person narrative, “Elect” is written in the first-person perspectives of Nixon, Chase and their other friend Phoenix. The different narratives portray Nixon's selfless and Chase's selfish love for Trace very well and the flashbacks shows a bigger picture of the boy's friendship. The elaboration of their different personalities is fantastic. The female points of views don’t exist. I'm impressed with Van Dyken's choice of narration. She is one step ahead of me because I planned to choose the same technique for my future book. I don’t see the perspectives of other narrators very often.At the moment I have my difficulties with serious about other family members or friends because of the hangover I have from the first books and their couples. I have to distance myself emotionally from the first couple to enjoy the next one in the same environment. That is the reason why I switched series at the last few weeks. With the “Eagle Elite” series it isn’t necessary. After Trace's and Nixon's story I continued immediately with Mil's and Chase's story. Surely it depends on the continuation of the other storylines.07. Juni 2014