Review: I have read this book several times, it's a favorite.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
What happens when Rock's bad boy meets a religious fundamentalist escape? Epic love and a happily ever after of course. Somehow this book achieves the perfect mix of extremely sweet and very hot. Perfect. Carter was something of a mess in book 1, a hilarious mess if you remember the hotel room scene where he first meets Rebecca. The Carter we meet in book 2 is the stuff of romantic book legend. Anna, who renames herself Aylen, as explained by the lead singer "that was your slave name" referring to her former Mormon fundamentalist life-is like a babe in the woods. Aylen is behind in technology, social norms outside of compound life, and resembles a little house on the prairie transplant when she first meets Carter. Luckily, the "I know Kung Fu" drunken master is more than willing to help her change and further her escape. If you ever saw the HBO series Big Love, this subculture will be familiar to you, the book didn't go into deep detail of Mormon Fundamentalism; just enough detail to be intriguing and at times alarming. This book can be read as a stand alone, however, the first book in the series is also very good(and more Carter is always good.)