Review: torn
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
I'm a little torn about how I rate this book. The first book was fantastic, and I was sold hook, line, and sinker into all the characters.  Loved, loved, LOVED the characters. So I really wanted to love them in the book as well. I still kind of did. But there were certain things about Kayla that drove me insane!!! So much, that i wanted to smack her! Then I wanted to hate her! Then, after the way she treated Thane, I really did hate her! After her traumatic and abusive marriage, she, of all people, should have understood being in the situation of being forced to do something against your will, and when Thane is put in that situation, she finds what he did as unforgivable, even after knowing the life and death circumstances he was under! Near the end of the book, her ex comes back into the picture, and even after he almost killed her years before, and she suffers such terrible PTSD from her life with him, she considers going back to him instead of making things work with Thane! Thane treated her with love and respect, and she even admits to loving him, but on the other hand you have her ex, who almost killed her and seriously abused her, and she considers going back to him instead???!!!!Kayla also took the martyr thing waaaaay tooooooo far!!!! Enough already! The whole 'just let me die' thing got annoying after several times. I don't think she deserved Thane. I really think he deserved better.I did read this book cover to cover, but really struggle with the rating. I gave it 3 stars because I still love all of the main characters, with the exception of Kayle, and because I loved the first book so much, it probably is casting a little cloud over my rating on this one, making me a little more generous then it may deserve.