Review: Book 2 and 3 SHOULD HAVE BEEN COMBINED
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
I like the characters in this series and the setting of race car drivers, and Book One was a nail biting race, but Book Two is more of a test lap; necessary, but not all that interesting.  Book 2 and 3 SHOULD HAVE BEEN COMBINED they are so short!!!Where to start?  This one is much shorter, about half what the first one  was and, I have to be honest, reads more like a novella.  Book One had so many fun characters and things going on that it was a "can't put down" read.  Book Two was a little redundant in the middle with the relaying of information to different characters, that I found myself skimming.  Also, it is so OBVIOUS who the bad guy is that it is a little frustrating to see the baffled head shaking and suspecting of friends.  And what happened to Harrison's man-card?  He just kept saying, "Whatever you think is best; we'll do it your way".  He was super sexy and dominant in Book One; not so much in this book.  It was Siena's story. I see that Book Three, is out which is also much shorter making it logical to have combined Two and Three and made it a more dynamic story.Siena is afraid to tell her Father and brother about Harrison after he beats Enzo in Book One and she gets the blackmail photos.  She knows she could be exposed at any moment, so she and Harrison decide to take a break for two weeks until the next race.  There is never any drama of cheating or insecurities, just the drama of who is blackmailing Siena and what she should do about it.  She doesn't want to live without Harrison, but she also doesn't want to burden her family with the situation.  When Siena's best friend Bex points out the obvious - that it would be better if she told her family rather than have the pictures come to light as a surprise, I thought Siena was going to "man-up".I hate that I didn't like this one as much as the first one, but it just didn't have the FUN clandestine love affair going for it or the smart and sexy repartee between Harrison and Sienna.  This one was filled with too much angst about being found out (when there was an obvious solution), anger and meanness from Enzo towards Siena and depressing news about their father's health.  While reading book 2 is necessary to keep up with the series, I repeat myself in saying, Colleen Masters should have put books two and three together which would have made a more compelling STORY, not a novella.There was some editing issues with some missing words and wrong words being used.  I admit it stopped the flow, but wasn't that hard to figure out.  There is some descriptive unprotected Sex and some profanity (f-word, gd, Sh**t), but really, overall, it was a really good story.Would I/Did I buy it? Yes (1.99)Would I read it again?  MaybeWould I recommend it to friends? YesAge level? NA