Review: meh
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2014
Like the first two Rylie Cruz books, I'll give this one three stars. But honestly it's barely hanging in there with a low three, maybe even a high two. It might be because I read the compilation and therefore all three books back to back, but this one began to feel VERY formulaic. So much so that I'd swear Ms. Pressey cut and pasted passages from one book to another! Despite that, I still found disruptive inconsistencies in the story. For example, Jack is referred to as a half-vampire at the beginning of this book, but at the end of book two Quentin turned him from a half-vamp to a full-vamp to save his life. A big deal was kinda made of it. Then at the end of this book he's referred to as a vampire. So, um, which is it? Or the way, in this book, Rylie's curse is said to affect the "first daughter born to each man in the Cruz family," but in the previous books it was the "youngest daughter." So again, which is it? This kind of thing yanks me right out of a story. As do the typos.As for the story itself, it was ok. I'm not calling it horrible or anything. But I was just so tired of it all. It began to remind me of the opening credits of a Benny Hill episode, Rylie randomly running from one place to another, usually with someone following her. (Just like in the first two books.) Meh. Then I reached the end and a cheesy cackling baddie who claimed, "You walked right into my trap." Really? If that's the case she should have realistically done that on about page 8 and saved me 240 pages of aimlessness. Plus, he/she was defeated really, REALLY easily. Meh.This is a cute clean series, with a little romance in the first two (not so much in this one). But this one fell down for me. Again, meh. It's the best I can say for it.