Review: Loved It But Then It Ended (Update 9 Mar 2014)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
I loved this book, let me get that out of the way up front.It was the story of two kids who grow up to become entirely different people, it melds childhood adventures, child abuse, black-ops, and friendship that never ends into a gripping story that I could hardly put down.The book is a bit heavy on the alpha-male type personality but it worked with this testosterone heavy tale.The story of Gabriel and to a smaller extent Thomas was almost hypnotic in its addiction but I have to mention a few downturns that kept this book from being the 5 Star epic I thought it was going to be (assuming this is a stand alone novel) and the story while enthralling, the ending left me with "What?" since I am not sure what was supposed to happen next.There was a mention of a romance that was never acted upon nor ever mentioned again, there was an overbearing jerk of a father that was never schooled in what a great son he had, several things left me cold and too many questions to rate this 5 Stars, I hope there is a sequel coming but none of my research turned up even the mention of one so I can't play "what if" with this review.Bottom Line:  Great story, grabs you almost from page one and morphs into an excellent story of black-ops and brotherhood and just when you are really enjoying all this, the story ended a bit abruptly, not a cliffhanger but left me with a ton of questions.  4 Stars and could have easily been more.UPDATE:  Seems there is indeed a sequel and I hope to update this review in the next few weeks.