Review: I give up on this awful series
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2012
As much as I hate to not finish a book (or a series), I am finally calling it quits with this one. I made it to about 30% of this book, and I got so bored of the same thing over and over and over and OVER AND OVER again that I just stopped reading it. This book is a repeat of the last three. Nothing has changed. No character growth, no movement of the "plot," nothing.Here is the plot of the entire series. Just jumble the order up, mix and mash, REPEAT (over and OVER) until you get to 100 chapters of awfulness, hit publish:*Skyla makes out with Gage*Skyla makes out with Logan*Skyla makes out with Marshall*Inner monologue about Skyla wanting to lose her virginity to (insert Gage, Logan, Marshall here)*Skyla goes to a party*Skyla argues with (insert Chloe, Tad, Demetri, Marshall, Gage, Logan here)*Skyla briefly mentions the faction war*Skyla randomly teleports to some angel world and has a totally pointless conversation with some totally pointless character*Skyla attacks (and/or kills) someone for no reasonThat's it. That's six books of Celestra in a nutshell.The author has said there will be probably 2 more books, and I don't think I want to subject myself to that kind of torture just to see how it ends (plus, I'll save the $8 to buy something that's actually good).This series would be so much better if a good editor took a red pen and struck out about 60% of the entire thing. Actually, I lied. Even that wouldn't save this series full of unlikeable and unrealistic characters. It also won't save the terrible writing that is WAY overloaded with some of the most idiotic metaphors I have ever seen.Skyla is the most terribly written, boring, unlikeable, immature, rude bitch of a protagonist I've ever had the displeasure of reading. She is the sluttiest virgin in "print," that's for sure. About 50% of this book (and all previous) is filled with pages upon pages of Skyla kissing (and sometimes going further) different boys alongside inner monologue of how she can't wait to lose her virginity. She often will nearly have sex with one boy, then two pages (aka a chapter) later, be nearly having sex with another. She has 3 (sometimes 4) different ones she alternates between. She seems to have no remorse for her behavior either. At this point, I don't even care who she ends up with.Skyla's behavior in the other 50% of the book is just so absurd that I don't think I can even do it justice without quoting huge chunks of the book (which I don't want to subject anyone else to). She murders people without remorse and for seemingly no reason without any consequences. She spends all of her free time trying to lose her virginity or attending parties where every teenager is completely wasted (alcohol, narcotics, both).Her love interests waver so much from chapter to chapter that I have whiplash trying to keep it all straight. She's with Logan, then she's with Gage, then she's making out with Marshall, then she's flirting with Ellis. In this book, she literally goes on for four pages about how she is so in love with Logan, and the very next page she is making out with Gage saying how they will be together forever.Her family is over the top. They are so ridiculously over the top that it's almost comical, except instead it's just stupid. Her step-dad is still nonstop raging. Her mother is still acting like an idiot. Her sisters have "grown up" and are now acting exactly like Skyla (slutty and stupid). Still not sure how her whole family are Counts (evil angel people) but they don't act like it at all. Then again...The faction war seems like it is supposed to be this huge plot point, but the author spends so little time on it that I often forget it's even going on. There are random 3 page chapters about it that come out of nowhere and I read them going "huh??" because I had totally forgotten all of that was happening in the background.I can't take it anymore and I give up!