Review: A fairly decent instalment in the series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
It is not exactly a secret that I have not been very thrilled with some of the books in this series. That have been to the extent that I was ready to give up on it. I am happy to say that this book is continuing the trend of being somewhat of an improvement over the more abysmal instalments in the series.The book starts of with Secret being in Paris trying to hunt down Peyton. I would say that Peyton have pretty much outstayed his welcome in these books. I have really never been much for stories where some villain just stays and stays and drags on and drags on. Naturally Secret just walks stupidly straight into a trap. Christ, why do so many authors have to do this? It just dumbs down their heroes and does not really add to the suspense if you are at least a half-intelligent reader. Anyway, the outcome was at least quite satisfactory as far as I am concerned.Naturally Secret’s world did not stop there and then and this is something that I liked with this book. The adventure goes on instead of getting bogged down in various triangular love dramas. Sure, there still a lot of Secret moaning about who to choose and such like silliness but at least it doesn’t overshadow the actual story this time. Secret walks into another trap of course but this time she at least do not stupidly walk into it but are reasonably aware that she are doing it. Also here the outcome is quite satisfactory. One might say that Secret is really cleaning up a lot of baggage that she have been dragging around from the previous books.One thing that I fund rather silly is that the bad guys always seems to have loads of goons available to them but Secret, werewolf queen and vampire tribunal leader, have to be alone or with her two closest friends at most. I find that just stupid.Anyway, as I wrote above, this book is one of the better ones. The love triangle nonsense is toned down and given what happened in this book I hope it stays toned down. The adventure and action are more present and Secret final gets to extract some revenge. There are some good conclusions of several story threads in this book. However one big thread is not closed at all and whether it is related to this particular thread or the opening of a new one I do not know but the book ends in a rather huge cliffhanger. It looks like the stakes are up big time for the next book. I just hope that the author continues on the good track with this story.