Review: Overall, this book was exactly what I needed in a conclusion
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
Ahhh, this book just gave me so many feels, I don’t even know how to express them all. I worry this review is going to be a jumbled mess, but that’s how you feel after you finish the Consequences series.This last book is told through the eyes of all the different guys we’ve met throughout this series. At first I didn’t want to read a book in other view points. I mean really who cares what John or Harry think. I want TONY. But as the story went on I began to see the genius in Romig writing it this way, the story needs all the pieces each man can bring to it. So much went on during those two years that it couldn’t be just told from Tony’s eyes or even Tony and another person. We needed it all so that we could really understand what happened in the missing years.I had so many notes on this book and you know who dominated most of them? No, it wasn’t Claire or even Tony, it was Emily. I HATE Emily. There are so many words I could use to describe her but none of them are nice and would make it through amazon's filters.  I blame the two years of misery that Claire went through on her. Then even at the end she does despicable things to Claire. Even after learning the truth her heart is just steel and unmovable. Emily is control obsessed and blinded by hate. I think there is a deep seeded jealousy at the root of it all, I really do. She may say she’s doing things “for Claire’s good” but she just wants to control the situation as she sees fit, not what is actually best. I didn’t love Emily in the previous books, but I left this one with a pure disdain for her.There is only one part of Convicted: the Missing Years I didn’t love, but it’s probably one of those “it’s not you, it’s me” things. In certain sections of this book we get to read chapters of the book Claire and Meridith published. They just felt like filler to me. I don’t know maybe they just weren’t interesting to me. I just had no desire to relive the events of book one we’ve gone over so many times before. I forgive Tony, so let’s move on from the past and work on how amazing he is now.There isn’t much action in this book at least when it comes to new events, but there is new information. As a reader I finally received answers to all those burning questions I left the last book with. We find out why and who was fired during those two years. Who may be sending those “special” gifts. So many things were finally tied up.Overall, this book was exactly what I needed in a conclusion. It was everything I wanted in order to leave the series in love with Tony. It was the chance he and I needed to connect. I had never quite reached the point of love in any of the previous books, but this one let him into my heart. It was the chance to really fully forgive him and it gave me the hope to believe Tony is actually a better man.I strongly suggest you give this whole series a shot, it’s a crazy ride, but worth every word. Each book takes the reader in one new crazed direction after another and you never know where we are going to end up. It had me on the edge of my pillows on more than one occasion.