Review: Meh
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
Review of Locked Together by Michelle AbbottLocked together is book two in the series. You do need to read book one in order to understand where this book is, otherwise it will be like a cross-country trip with Tom-Tom, you’ll get to leave Indianapolis three times. (True story, thanks Tom-Tom) It’s quite confusing, frustrating, and you’ll be lucky if you don’t strangle whomever you are traveling with. Wars have started over less, so save some trouble and read book one first, okay?I really enjoyed book one. I thought that the storyline was more on the original side than anything I had recently read when it came through. It was a bit on the “soft” side considering it was about slavery and forbidden love, but it was worth the read. Now, book two picks up where book one left off. We have Savannah feeling horrible that the love of her life, Kayden (the slave), was sent back to be retrained at the Compound. (The Compound is where slaves are born and trained.) Instead of going to jail (you’ll just have to read book one to know why) she picks going to the Compound instead so she can be with her true love Kayden.I’m slightly less than excitable about this book. The reason being the naivety that made Savannah lovable in book one, really annoyed me in book two. It was obvious that “humans” didn’t view the “neanderthals” as people at all on the outside of the Compound so it shouldn’t have shocked her that they were treated worse than rats in a cage. I mean, come on already.And the completely sweet, endearing amazement that Kayden had in book one that a human could love a slave?! It was so over the top in this book that I wanted to cry in frustration. Their relationship was just over-wrought with flowery confessions from him and out of the blue carnal desires from her. I mean who really feels like humping while in the worst kind of jail cell imaginable with a couple “troublemaking” slaves to watch. Sounds like a fun go round eh?Now as for the story as a whole. It had a ton of potential. It could have taken the dark erotic genre by storm and been what all other authors in the genre aspire to be, but at every turn it felt like the author got scared of where she was going and backed out before it went there. It was a confused and jumbled storyline that really left me feeling bereft. I will go ahead and let you know that the ending for the book made finishing the story/series worthwhile. I’m always game for a good HEA and Savannah and Kayden get theirs. It’s just the getting there that was bumpy.I give the storyline in this book three stars and the smutty parts are two steamy-ish panties. Not quite damp… but not bone dry either.A Mommy’s a Book Whore review.