Review: 3.5 Stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2013
I don't know how to rate this book. I rated the 1st book as a 4 because of several grammatical errors, unstructured time frames and confusion with switching from the present to the past without any forewarning. The plot/storyline is a good one, but it felt to me that it wasn't outlined or structured well. I had this same issue in book 1 and figured it would've been corrected but it wasn't. If the last paragraph in a chapter was in the present, the very next paragraph was like 7 months down the line occurring in another city with no forewarning...no bridge to transition from one paragraph to the next. Because of this I had to constantly reread some chapters.Lanya..Lanya..Lanya...I don't know what to say about her character. I didn't see much growth in her because she kept putting herself in some of the same crazy situations as the first book. She did accomplish something by going to school, but it's like she was stuck in this circle that she couldn't get out of in regards to her choice in men and abusive relationships. In regards to her relationships they were all abusive, controlling and demanding. I would've liked to see her have a somewhat normal relationship at some point in the book. Her relationship with Sacario was a dizzying one and I had to skip through some parts. I used to root for them but geeeeeeez, could their relationship have SOME type of normalcy.There still wasn't much of a background history on the other brothers other than Dinero. There isn't much said about Ali and I'm still trying to figure out his place in the story. There were several stories within the story yet at times it feels like it didn't all mesh. The ending had me like WTH, nut I have a few people in mind that may be the 'rat' in their inner circle.I rated this book as a 3.5 because to me it still lacked outline, structure, some redundancy and at times it seemed all over the place. From my review, it may appear that I didn't like the book, but I did. I just wish it was a more structured book and the timeframes were a little more thought out. I will buy the next book only because I've already started the series, but I hope that it has more structure.