Review: So many twisty feels
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
So many twisty feels...COME BACK picks up where COME left off. James has taken off leaving Harper waiting. Turns out he had an errand to run... in the form of picking up a 13 year old girl from a deserted Colorado prairie, by the name of Sasha. (If you're paying really close attention Sasha first appeared in Slack. She had a scene with Ford while Merc worked out a deal with her Dad.)Sasha will steal your heart before you'e finished the first chapter. She may also steal the entire book.This book is a triangle of confusion. James. Harper. Sasha. Whom should I trust? Who is safe? These three are regularly pulling guns on each other and questioning each other's motives. Sasha seems to have some answers but isn't talking. James is the hero so I should assume he's good- yet I'm not sure what his intentions are. Harper, she's pretty innocent, yet she's not."What's your tally Harper? How many have you killed? Do you even know?""I'm not a killer. I don't know why they tell you those things. I'm not a killer.""I am," Sasha says. "I got four, James. When they came to blow up my grandparents ranch. I got four."Who are these people? They're twisty, I know that much.There's a romance woven into the suspense as well. Harper was promised to James when she was a child as some sort of deluded payment for a job. Or maybe she wasn't. Maybe the Admiral (head of the secret organization in which this book takes place & Harper's father) has been playing James for a decade. It doesn't matter because now that Harper is grown, James wants her.But.... there's still this lingering feeling...."Things feel off with me too," Harper finally admits. "I can't put my finger on it, but it feels bad.""That feeling is James betraying you, Harper. And if I was you, I'd definitely listen to that one."See what I mean about Sasha? Kid gets all the best lines. I'm practically gagging for a Sasha spin off & she's 13.We get some answers at the end of COME BACK but not all, obviously. I wouldn't call this a cliff hanger. There's enough resolution that you can be satisfied until the 3rd book releases in November.