Review: Repetitive...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
This book was not as good as the first, as usual.  I found the first book (The Mating)to be somewhat suspenseful, but this book was mostly repetitive.  When I say "repetitive" I don't mean repeating what the first book was all about (which is also annoying), but rather repetitive about what the characters were constantly thinking.  The following will not spoil anything and does not give anything away if you choose to read it- the base of this information is supplied to the reader in the first or second chapter... There is a reporter wanting to interview Ryne...well several times in the book Ryne talks to himself about having a thing for the reporter, but she could be his enemy, blah, blah, blah.  I bet that particular thought or something similar is repeated about four times throughout the book and it's like - we know what the reporter is up to already!-you don't have to keep telling us!.  We know he's attracted to her, we know he shouldn't be attracted to her-get on with the story already!  Te same type of thoughts occur for the reporter...she was attracted to Ryne, but thought he was a jerk - that was also a repetitive conversation to herself throughout the book...again...WE KNOW.  This book didn't get really good until 64% of the way through...when I got to that point I zipped through it in about a day, but it took me three weeks to get there because I just wasn't that interested.  I read "The Mating" (prequel to this book) in 3 days and highly recommend it, but I would suggest you stop there and don't waste your time with "The Keeping".  BUT...because the ending was fairly good, I might continue on and read "The Finding", just not right now.  I'm moving on to a different series for the time being and may or may not come back to this series.