Review: Lots of Sex, no Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
Uh, Oh!  Apparently, I am in the minority on feeling this book was about nothing.  I found this story boring and the end too sweet and neatly packaged.  Ryland and Araya DEFINITELY were in love and never wavered, but sometimes that is a little boring and predictable.  As with the first one, the potential for drama was there, but Araya was continually saved before it could developed.  The most exciting event – a murder – isn’t even described, nor is the killer found.I also found the characters to be less likable than in book one and the storyline was choppy.  Araya was contentious, Ryland was wrathful, his Dad was just horrible, and even Sebastian seemed creepy and unlikeable in this one. Many times, in the beginning, the reader wouldn't know who was talking with Araya, as if the author wanted us blind too, only Araya knew who she was talking to. Eventually, Araya would call them by name, and we would know who was in the room with her.  Honestly, I  started skimming at 61% because it was just too annoying.Ryland is angry at the world and is really an Ass to everyone, including his once beloved sister Careless, who is repentant for her actions in book one.  He is reunited with Araya when she comes to dance at a fund raiser his father dragged him to and Ryland ends up playing the piano for her and her dance partner Pierce, who wants Araya.  At first Ryland is jealous and thinks Araya has moved on, but he drags her to a closet and they “get it on” and he knows she is still his.  Yes, after months apart, their first union is in a closet.  From there, they decide to be together, but their phones apparently don’t work and Araya goes to “the fight club” where she is drugged and ends up kissing Sebastian.There is a lot, I mean a lot of sex and over and over again, but …, I don’t know, it seemed too much and the main focus.  Also, a lot of flash backs or narration about events that happened, but not as part of the main story? Actually, I don’t know why they were described (italicized) the way they were – separate from the normal type. It was odd.  Then it just got sappy, so for those of you out there that like a lot of “I love you’s” and “suspend belief” endings, you’ll like this one.  There are some unanswered questions like what happened to Makayla the night they were drugged, who killed Craze and Sebastian getting out of jail, so I wonder, is there a third book?In thinking how to describe this story the main word that keeps coming up is “Aggravating”.  There is a lot of events, but some of them are never investigated to their full potential.  Also, Araya’s defensive attitude makes her seem moody and silly. Ryland’s brother Sebastian does the rescuing in this book and keeps the plot from being excitingConsider this one NA as there is LOTS of “kind of” descriptive sex and profanity (f-word, sht, gd, a$$). I am sorry I found it uninteresting to read and am glad to have got it for only .99.Would I/Did I buy it? Yes (.99)Would I read it again?  NoWould I recommend it to friends? Not Really