Review: Enjoyable Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
Books 1 and 2 of this series were absolutely amazing. Good strong, well rounded characters, and an unconventionally hot romance. I enjoyed that there was an undercurrent of something mysterious and potentially dangerous about each of the main characters, but it was balanced with a certain measure of emotional softness, until I got to book 3. There was so much buildup of their love story, and how into each other they were, it was almost whimsical. Then in book 3 the series took a turn that was a bit darker, it was different. There was some technical jargon and some unanswered questions that were a bit jarring. I didn't quite understand the whole laser gun thing, the government secrets that Persephone was keeping, the easygoing handling of Vanya's father (despite the fact that he tried to really really hurt his son), and no answer to what Peter Benson meant when he said to Vanya that history was repeating itself. These are just a few of the quizzical elements that threw me. I have heard that the resolution of a book is often times the hardest part to write, and I think that may have been true here. Overall though, I enjoyed the majority of this series, and I definitely will read more offerings from this author.