Review: ambitious story, but unredeemable characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
The plot of Ignite is a good one...plenty of twists, changes, and surprises. There is an interesting story hidden in this book, but the character development is where it trips up.The big issue with this series (in addition to being a cliffhanger) is that the characters are unredeemable...they are neither likable or compelling. The author fails at building empathy for Sara and Jaxon. They take turns at absolutely abismal behavior. When they work to redeem themselves, I can only wonder why anyone would want to be in a relationship with either of them. Jaxon surpasses manwhore status. His promiscuity and being part of a group that share their women is simply a "oh hell no" moment. I can't get past how abusive Sara was (emotionally and physically) to Jaxon either. Then when Sara leaves Jaxon, he wins the award for making *the worst decisions possible.* The story is so far fetched with arbirtarty drama. Jaxon and Sara are not healthy for eachother, and I'm left flat footed because I could really care less who either of them ends up with.The only redeemable character in the story is Remy. Dollars to donuts he gets the major shaft from Sara in book two and Sara ends up with Jaxon.  Burn is a book I really don't want to take on. I unfortuantely bought both books at .99 based on reviews...but am so bummed I wasted the money.