Review: The start wasn’t particularly interesting
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2014
Written by Dolce AmoreOriginally posted on confessionsfromromaholics dot comARC provided kindly by publicist for reviewing purposesThe start wasn’t particularly interesting; we just know that Shannon, Pryor and Tristan are preparing themselves for something. We don’t know for what.Two weeks prior, Shannon is interviewing Raymond Stark to see if he’s Platinum Class material. For a Platinum Class and a powerful woman, Shannon turns out to be a very easy to distract and not too sure of herself. I know that Raymond is also playing some mind trick, but he does it in the end, so she doesn’t have excuses.By the way, the higher level should be platinum, not gold; the ranking is Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum.A few pages into the story, we learn that Shannon was kidnapped two years ago and had facial reassignment to protect her identity; Eaglecorp, the company that commands the world, had covered up the entire misfortune under a blanket of money and lies. Her three weeks of captivity are still haunting her nights. And in one of those we find out that Tristan was one of her kidnappers. What a turn off!!!Next, we discover that Raymond Stark is Pryor and that he and Tristan, among others, have planned all that five years ago and it was supposed to bring equality. Eagelcorp (or the men in charge) have been discharging young, pregnant girls if they discover their sons are not perfect, forcing the girls to live out their lives outside the cities. This kind of action is given to anyone Eaglecorp wants to make destitute. To bring about equality, Pryor, as Raymond, has to infiltrate the main server at headquarters and he will need two or three weeks to do it. Seems the mind trick was caused by a pill Pryor took just before the interview.Incredibly, Tristan calls dibs on Shannon.Just don’t forget, I saw her first.I still expect for the book to capture my attention, but it seems that won’t happen.Shannon seems to have a crush for her ex kidnapper, Tristan, and in that weeks she was held hostage, he won her over to the rebel’s side. And Pryor tells her who he really is and that he’s Tristan identical twin.When Shannon meets Tristan and sees him for the first time, they react as lovers who haven’t seen each other in a long time. I can’t believe it!!! He held her captive, and she suffered because of the kidnapper in command, Mick, and she still hugs him? For me, the fact that he was kind to her while she was hostage doesn’t redeem him.Then, Pryor tells her that it’s either both or neither of them, and she has to decide now. She accepts, of course she does, and Tristan gives her an earpiece so the three of them can always be in contact.They try to find a girl who seems to look like Shannon after her facial reassignment and soon that puts her in contact with Patricia Blackwell, the president of Eaglecorp, a forty-five year old lesbian known for her preference for blondes. When she goes to meet her as that girl who went missing, Patricia knows she is Shannon; and she has Mick by her side… surprise, he wasn’t dead as everyone thought he was!Shannon discovers that the girl was dead and she was totally changed two years ago … not only her face, but her body too; Patricia turned her into a replicate of her lover. They stole her body and placed her brain into a clone. And when I thought it couldn’t get any worst, three marshals came to investigate her to ask if she was with Patricia the night before. Of course she was, and they never made Patricia forget that, so Shannon says she wasn’t? So Pryor makes her forget all about the resistance and about the investigation.Yet, Tristan doesn’t want to be forgotten, doesn’t want to lose her. So he makes her remember some parts of what happened between them. And she soon remembers everything.Patricia disappears, there is another person named as president and Shannon is named as Senior Vice President of Personnel. We finally understand what was she preparing for … she was going to speak to the new recruits of the resistance.I finally finished the book. It’s clearly a series and it’s not set as one. I’m sorry to say that I rate it 2 couples, and I can’t give it more because of the material I’ve already cited.