Review: top 10 read - the story just get better & better
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2013
Eve is a strong, principled woman, one who does not make hasty decisions or change her mind easily. Michel and Julian are masters at the game of manipulation; after all they themselves were victims of it. But the grand master of all deception, manipulation, and secrecy is Soren, and so here is our palette of main characters.Starting where the first book left off we are ushered into a small emotional roller coaster car that enters the tracks at high speed, twisting and turning - sometimes making you feel like your upside down. I've only had one other book in my reading history that has pulled so many emotions from me, has been so thought provoking, that has made me feel the love between characters so strongly even though it's not a happy loving situation - a book that has made me think what would I actually do, am I making the right decisions, can this work out any other way.I love that S.E. Lind is taking her time, developing the characters, giving us a plot worthy of our time and emotions, not scrimping or cheating us on anything just to get to the end of the story. In one book you can have a favorite brother and then hate him 5 pages later. Learning more about Eve's back story, the abuse, the time spent to hone her artistic crafts, feeling the love she has for both brothers, knowing how conflicted she is in her choice of one brother over the other, and her hate for Soren you feel every decision she makes. This is complex, dirty love story, I'm not sure if the right or wrong choices are being made. I do know that Michel loves Eve and will do anything within his powers to keep her safe, but his choices don't seem the best for Eve at times.I found myself not wanting Eve to make some of the decision she made, I didn't want her to give up her ideals and convictions, I liked that she was a strong women in her own right. The twins have harped on her to submit for her own good, but have her decisions brought her to submission? The twins want total life submission, but Eve`s ideals and convictions won't allow her to relinquish her choices to others, and so lies one of the big dilemmas our characters have to face.I'm not a professional book reviewer, and I'm glad I'm not - I have so much emotion tied up in this story, and I can't wait to continue this journey. I can't decide who's right and whose wrong, who's good or bad. I feel the love between Eve and Michel, but I am saddened by her dependence on him, and I hope that her strength will be able to emerge once again, and though she will never be Michel's equal, I hope that she can hold her own in the war that has began.I give thanks to S.E. Lund for crafting such a great story and allowing me to take this journey, to feel even though I may not always enjoy it.