Review: I really enjoyed it, even though I waited to start until the entire 3 books were complete.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
You should probably take my review at face value. There's a few things I probably did differently than you.Number 1, first and foremost, I'm a HUGE Christine Bell Fan. I've officially read everything she has released. I love her writing style and because of this I'm bound to NOT hate this book.Number 2 (and probably most importantly) I waited until the entire 3 book series was released. Then I downloaded Book One for Free, Book Two for $2.41 (ish) and Book Three for $.99That makes my entire purchase $3.40 which is, if you ask me, a VERY decent price for 250+ pages.Yes this is a series. No you probably don't like waiting. So don't. Don't start reading until all the books are released.The gripes about serials isn't so much about the money and more about how readers don't like waiting. I get you. I don't like waiting either.Getting into the actual review....I really enjoyed this story. A LOT actually. It fleshed out over the course of three books and yes, if you read them as standalones, the story would probably stink. But I didn't and I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed Bash & Olivia. The tensions between them was very real. The conflict between Olivia and Andy got to me on a core level. I know what abusive relationships look like and Christine wrote this one spot on.And I really really loved Bash. I'm not one for book boyfriends... but abs of steel and the ability to hold his own in a street fight? Yes please.I feel like Christine writes so many romance novels they should start to sound the same. But they don't. She has this magical ability to make each book unique to the core and I love that about her writing.I DID have a few gripes that make this 4 stars instead of five.1. Editing. OMG. What happened? There were a TON of errors in these books. A lot of repeated words. Maybe an upload error? I don't know.. but it was pretty standard across all three books.2. The ending. I felt the ending was a BIT rushed and the fact that I needed to read the intro to Matty's story to get what had REALLY happened kind of through me. But I'm holding out judgement because I feel like the next story could probably fill in a good amount of holes.3. I wasn't sure about the character development. I finished the series feeling a little bit like I didn't know them well enough. Or maybe it's because I wanted to know them more. Maybe I didn't want it to end. I was up until 4am reading these and it's possible I was a bit loopy.NOTE: I'm posting the same review across all three books, since my review is about all three at once.