Review: Great action romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2012
I have to say that this was not at all what I was expecting, but I still ended up really enjoying this book. The beginning confused me a bit, but after the first five pages, I got into the story. I though it was really funny when Edgar and Mallory were looking for a hostage, they ended up picking up a criminal instead of a scared, helpless girl. I liked how Lucy was really strong, independent, and didn't take crap from anyone. It was cool to see how Edgar and Lucy's relationship developed through their trip running from the cops. Edgar and Mallory's relationship reminded a lot of George and Lenny's relationship in Of Mice and Men, how Mallory didn't think like normal people and Edgar had to look out for him. Because of this and the awful things he did, Mallory creeped me out a bit, but I really enjoyed the rest of the characters. The added Native American Reservation aspect was really interesting in Lucy's character and how she wanted to build a reservation of her own. I felt like some parts of the story got a little too swept up in the descriptions that lasted a couple of pages so those parts got a little boring, but other than that there was a lot of action, murder, and even romance to make the book enjoyable. I don't think I've read a criminal love story before, so Brightwing was a nice surprise and proved to me that even criminals are capable of love.