Review: Different to the first two books
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
This is the third (and final?) part of the Access series and in a way I am sad to reach the conclusion. I remember being totally in a book heaven when reading the first two books last year so the wait has been too long in coming. It is stated that this can be read as a standalone read but for me the benefit is to read the first two amazing books. This third book does take on an entirely different feel and takes the story to somewhere I never envisioned it going to.Lily is now to join the bus to write about Tristan’s comeback tour and the way the last book ended I was eager to find out what happens. Also joining the tour is AC, the guitarist from their old band Devised and a close friend of Tristan. If the rumours are correct just how close a friend are they now. What happens on tour, stays on tour but then again, could this be possible?As I said this is a totally different feel and for me there were some areas that just had me shrieking “WTF!” Lily is no timid wallflower but what she witnesses should have had her ranting and raving but she quietly closes the door, walks away and keeps what she has seen to herself. I must admit at that part of the book I was wanting to walk away too, even though in my previous review I was wanting ‘that’ to have happened, but not now, not with how things were progressing with Lily and Tris. Anyhow I bravely pulled my big girl panties up, shoved the angst back under the pillow and carried on. How glad I was that I did.The story then progresses with Lily getting to know AC more, gaining a deeper connection to Tris through this and both understanding that the way they were was them and not how everyone else expected they should be. This new angle of their relationship and AC’s involvement was cleverly done, bit by bit, it was pecking at my head until eventually I clicked with the whole revelation. I was totally on board with it. It didn’t have a title of what this was other than Lily and Tristan.There were some parts that were skipped upon which I would have preferred a whole chapter on (yes that part!) but the reader was left wanting. It is not a book for the lazy reader, the author really makes you work hard for your book bliss with a lot of reading between the lines and clicking on to the thought process, which made it all the more rewarding to read.The ending was satisfying but also left where further could be delivered on in the future. For me I have my own connotations of what the future brings for Lily and Tristan. It’s good, real good. *sighs*