Review: Enjoyable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
This story is a raw and gritty story, not hearts and flowers, it is a little on the dark side but not intensely dark. It had a lot of twists, turns and upside down moments. To be honest, I had a hard time getting into it at first but then as I went on it was hooked and it pulled me in.Cypress, aka Magnolia, is the female lead. She had so many facets to her and changed so much over a short time. She was the good girl that falls for the handsome bad boy. Cypress is dealt some bad cards and she had to do what she needed to in order to survive and stay alive. She is a true fighter. The author really did a great job making me feel her feelings of guilt, anguish and the intense love she felt for Cane. Those feelings ripped through me.Cane is the male lead, at least some of the time. I felt bad for him being caught up in the family he had. The choices he made were hard ones and I could tell he was doing it all in order to find a way out. His love for Cypress was real and true and maybe a little selfish.  I will say Bentley is the other male lead in the book. (No this is not a love triangle) He is relentless in breaking down Cypress’ walls and getting her to let him in. Let’s just say that Bentley really surprised me. I liked him and I liked how he was with Cypress.Overall I enjoyed the book; there are a few things that I would have liked to have seen differently. There are some key events in the book, to me they would be have been a pivotal moment for main character and I felt that they were downplayed and because of this I found myself swiping back to see if I missed something. I wanted to feel more emotion from it. I had been on the edge of my seat waiting for that scene to happen and I was left unsatisfied. I was also a bit confused with the ending of the book and I contacted the author for clarification.  The ending blew me away and was not at all what I had expected.This book is different than my typical reads, it was had a suspense aspect to it that I normally do not read. The way the author incorporated that with the love, angst and darkness was fresh to my readers mind. I have not read the first book in the series Tug of War but I plan too. You do not need to read that one first to read Objective. There are just small mentions of the characters from the first book but not enough to give anything away from it.