Review: Great sequel even if I preferred the first installment.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2013
3.5 to 4 stars.I received this book from Netgalley for an honest review.I read the first installment a few months ago and really enjoyed it as the few twists were unexpected and the characters very interesting. I was eager to read this new installment.Now that I’m finished with it, I’m delighted and yet a little disappointed. In the first installment, I really loved Trace while here she annoyed me to no end. That being said, Nixon and Chase are amazing and outweight everything that I think are lacking – like the little use of descriptions and overabundance of dialogues in the first part, or the many, too many indeed, twists that make the whole plot slightly confusing at times.Like always, the author won me over with her well thought out story and her characters complicated and very thrilling to follow. I mean, if there’s one story in which the author is going to make her readers barely breathing, it’s with this series and with this second installment if I have to be more precise.Throughout the novel I didn’t know what to expect and fear clawed at me in the best way possible. The setting is unique in this genre of books and even if it feels cliché at times, it’s also very much addictive to read about.But, and here it’s a matter of personal taste, I have a hard time with love triangle and there’s a big one here even if the love story is not the only focus of the plot – far from it. I’m often if not always rooting for the wrong guy and it’s really frustrating, but here it’s not what happened. For the most part of the book, I didn’t know who I preferred: Nixon or Chase. It came to the point that I agonized the fast coming end and Trace’s behavior. To be honest, I find her quite weak in this novel which is a disappointment.But this book is an amazing follow up. The author built her plot like a thriller of some sort and it’s a welcome new twist in the genre. Some things are under-developped in my opinion because there’re so many twists and secrets which kind of make me unsure how much is too much.But the thing I should point and this is why I love reading this author’s novels. Her writing style is dynamic and flows effortlessly so. It’s graphic when it needs to, emotional in the right places without being too mellow and the humor is there, brought into ‘life’ by characters you always want to know more about.I can’t wait to read more about the other characters as, I think, they also have their part to play and their story to tell.I recommend you this series. Give it a shot!