Review: On the surface it's a good book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
I really liked the angst that was the majority of this book but I genuinely feel that when bad things like that happen it doesn't end all happily ever after. So it was nice to see that. See some human emotion between these two people. Now at face value I liked the book. Which is how I got it to a 4 star rating. Strictly face value as a continuation of the previous story it was totally a 4 star book.Now I did have some issues. So really if there was a 3.5 rating I'd probably be more in that realm.1. Why does Lil even have a career in these books? She came out of college with a serious career and two books in it's been for the most part an after thought. That entire part of the story could be eliminated because she, in the end, is little more than your stereotypical biker girl in these books.2. I have a lot of difficulty with her being all about her college stuff like she was and then being perfectly ok with drug and human trafficking.2.5. If we're going to be heavy on the illegal activities I really wish that children would not be included in these books. It makes me feel weird reading that stuff. I've said it before and I'll never stop saying it. If adults want to be involved in illegal activities fine. And I'm cool with reading that but for goodness sakes stop dragging the children into this.3. I couldn't help this nagging feeling that I've read this before. There are only so many ways for a couple to react to the violence she went through. So there are going to be similarities to other books where the female partner is subjected to what she was. However, if one is sensitive to that sort of thing they are going to have a hard time not noticing that this book is heading down the same path as another series and has some similarities for at least a little bit with how the male lead deals with the trauma.I can get past most all of that stuff and take the book at face value but some people may have issues. I noticed some minor editing issues. I guess I'd say if you're paying an editor make sure they are doing their job right. There were apostrophes where there shouldn't be. No apostrophes where there should be and some word usage problems. But nothing hugely glaring. But I notice that the editor is noted and if I was paying for editing I wouldn't be paying for how this was edited.