Review: really 4.5!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
I have been a fan of this series from the very beginning!The first book captured me with the tender flashbacks between Bethany and Cade, as well as the intense sci-fi alien scenes.The second book has a twist ending that  I won't reveal because I want to avoid spoilers, but everyone who has read this series knows what I am talking about.The third book also captured me with it's ending. It was really fantastic.This series was almost perfect. Erica Stevens managed to create a book trilogy that centered around subjects that have been over done, but she added her own twists that made the story line original. There are elements that would attract lovers of Dystopian, sci-fi, and even vampire fans! There are many elements to this book, but she manages to do it all without overdoing it. That really impressed me.So many writers tend to focus more on the action or the love story and the other parts of a story sometimes fall to the background. Not so with this series! The love story is genuine, the action intense, and world issues are dealt with. I  appreciated the balance between each focus.The only issue I had with this book was that the dialogue tended to run on and on at certain points. Sometimes an idea or emotion Bethany was processing would be reiterated two or three times in the story, and that  annoyed me a bit. This is just my personal opinion, other people  enjoy that type of on going dialogue. Erica is still an excellent writer so although I am not a fan of some of her dialogue tendencies, I enjoy her stories so much I happily read most of her books anyway.