Review: this series had promise but didn't deliver
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
In this third and final book of the series, Trip and Layla finally get together. Sort of. Four years later than the last book--with no real explanation as to what happened during that time, those years are totally glossed over. Here they meet when Trip's Dad dies and suddenly, they decide to be together! Why couldn't they have had this realization 14 years ago?Sadly, this was the best part of the book.Really this book is just one, long, insecure argument. It's the continuation of the miscommunication frenzy of book 2. Not all that much happens, just a lot of bickering which annoyed me a lot. After a while, I didn't know why they wanted to be together either.***VERY MINOR SPOILER FROM LAST BOOK****And the idea that the only thing that had kept them apart in the last book was a misplaced letter? Why didn't Trip have a phone?? His reasons for not having a cell phone rang hollow--a bad plot device. Had he had a phone, it might have solved most of their problems. Who writes letters???? And if they were so meant to be together, why did it take SO LONG for them to look for each other? ***END SPOILER***In any case, I found this book almost as disappointing as the last. I still liked the characters but the repetition of the same issues over and over became boring after a while. I sped through the book, hoping for more interest and depth but there was little to be found.There is an epilogue that wraps things up (WRAPS EVERYTHING UP SUPER FAST) but it's SO condensed and tacked on, I felt cheated.If I hadn't liked the characters so much, this would have been 2 stars.I actually finished this book two weeks ago. Usually if I'm going to write a review, I write it as soon as I finish the book. But I was so upset, I needed time to distance myself from my disappointment. This series could have been one of my favorites but...sorry to say, I won't be reading it again.