Review: I liked this but what happened to the ending?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
Okay, if I'm not careful this review could end up easily turning into a rant and considering the fact that I did actually like this story I don't want to get too far from the point. So before I start talking about what rubbed me the wrong way about this story, I will go on to first talk about the things I did like.First, let me go on to say that if you haven't read at least the story before this one, Fractured, then know that you are picking up a story already in progress. Deviant, the first book in the series, really just introduces the dilemma and the two main characters, Sloane and Zeth. To me, the story doesn't really begin until Fractured so that's why I strongly recommend you read that one at least if not start from the beginning with Deviant. If you don't take my advice, you're not going to really understand what the hell is going on and why. Anyway, the choice is yours.With that said, the entire series itself is like nothing I've ever read in the erotica genre. I've said this in my reviews of the other books in the series and that still holds true for this one. I don't know about anyone else - but I get tired of reading the same sappy, romantic erotica with the same sappy cliche's. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with the warm and fuzzy stuff once in awhile, but I like my erotica with an edge and the Blood and Roses series has a very sharp one.Burn literally picks up where Fractured left off. Sloane and Zeth are still trying to cover their asses long enough to find Slone's sister, Alexis, and get the hell out of dodge. Of course, that's a lot easier said than done when Julio still has a sharp eye on Zeth. Things get a little complicated when a motorcycle gang ends up in the mix and soon bullets are flying and the knives come out and soon its every pimp, prostitute, and motorcycle thug for him or herself.Here is where things get a bit...inconsistent.I felt the end was a bit too gift-wrapped. Something dramatic results in Sloane's reunion with her sister in a most unfortunate way and the things Sloane learns in the midst of the uncertainty doesn't make any sense. By that, Zeth is telling her one thing about the man he stole the bid on her virginity from and yet when she is confronted by the man in question in a shocking chain of events, the man seems nothing like the man Zeth described him to be which was nothing short of a monster. Besides that Sloane starts going hard on the man about her sister, but makes no mention of his intentions for her when Zeth purportedly rescued her from her fate from this man.It just made no sense. Not if you've been following this story from the jump. I know the next installment is supposed to be out this month and I suppose some things are going to be cleared up. Maybe so, but even still I thought it was a bad move on the author's part to end so abruptly and on a barrel of contradictions.Anyway, if you read the other two books you might as well read this one. Better yet, wait to the next one comes out and then read this one and then the next together. Maybe then the story wouldn't sound so incomplete.