Review: The series just keeps getting better!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
Best yet in this series! DETERMINANT digs deep, emotionally, mentally. January St. Davis didn't grow up in a warm and loving home and she never knew why. She excelled in school, graduated first in her class at sixteen, and for her graduation present, her parents kicked her out of the house, after dropping a HUGE bombshell aimed straight at her heart. (At this point, I have to say, her parents are now my all-time most hated characters.)January's story is entwined with Maddie's story, (Survival, Resurrection), as they are roommates in college and perfect snippets of Maddie's story are added at just the right moments, making January's emotional state when she met Rykerian even more understandable! She is very sick, feels very alone in the world and wants to die.Rykerian, a Guardian of Vesturon, is told to find someone in distress who needs his help, he finds January, takes her to his healers and wants nothing more than to keep her safe, make her want to live. Unfortunately, January doesn't trust him, doesn't think she likes his 'alpha' ways. Of course, he is absolutely gorgeous, too good for her, and she is sure she isn't worthy of anyone's love, which, in her opinion, probably wouldn't last, anyway.January is so unfairly damaged and Rykerian is so clueless about how to break her walls down, that they HAVE to be meant for each other!;)When January is held hostage by an unknown, and very powerful alien mercenary, Jurek, the story just gets better!This addition to the series has action in all forms, emotional, physical, mental! While the main focus is the growing relationship between Rykerian and January, there is so much more happening, so many other important characters involved, that the story was extremely well-rounded! I even felt the dialogue matched aliens talking to humans...(yeah, because I am SO familiar with that!) A. M. Hargrove drew me in and finished up leaving me wanting the next book NOW!