Review: Okay...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2014
Regretfully, I have to say that I was disappointed with The Love Trials 3.  I was very excited about this book and had such high hopes, but I was left unsatisfied.***SPOILER***To me, this conclusion wasn’t a conclusion, at least not a satisfying one.  It was incomplete.  Technically, secrets were never revealed and the murder was never solved.  As a reader, yes, I found out what happened.  But no one in the book did!  Nancy surely didn’t.  She never uncovered the truth…the truth about Jaxon’s revenge, the truth about Hunter’s death, the truth about Lovers’ Academy (actually, I still don’t know the answer to this one).I felt the characters broke…well, character.  They were inconsistent with who they were from books 1 & 2.  Nancy was a strong, smart girl in the first 2 books, but in book 3, I found her weak, nave, and downright stupid.  Some of her decisions pissed me off.  She gives Jaxon her virginity and agrees to marry him even though she doesn’t completely trust him and knows that he’s after her father for revenge.  I mean…REALLY?!!  I know she’s in lust and all, but it’s so ridiculous that it’s unreal.  And Jaxon.  Throughout the entire series (up until the last 2 chapters), he was all about revenge…dedicated his life to it, who cares about the casualties as long as he had his revenge.  Then he just gave it all up, at the last minute, for love?  It was not believable.  And even then, his love for Nancy was not convincing.  There was no gradual build-up; it was just revenge, revenge, using her for revenge, and then I love her.The ending was a bit rushed.  Jaxon leaves Nancy at the altar, he shows up 2 months later without an explanation, she forgives him and takes him back.  Seriously?!!  I’ve loved all of J.S. Cooper’s previous books, but this one really surprised me.  The book, and therefore the series, felt unfinished. :(