Review: This has fallen to the bottom, and it lacks Life Alert to save it.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2013
This series started out so great.  The four friends had gained powers.  The evil doctor and his son, Zack, attempted to catch and study Willow.  The people outside have also gone through some miraculous and horrendous changes.  The virus appears to have been eradicated.  Virus and vaccines are an interesting topic.  Regardless of how little time was left, there would have been a least a minimum of human testing performed.  Don't you think the test subjects went out into the sun?  Should have someone been aware of the mutations?  So did anyone know?  Obviously, the evil doctor knew about Zack and his daughter,Candy, having developed powers.  Does anyone in any of the shelters notice the Reapers or the lack of virus?  Why aren't they letting people out or sending soldiers to help?  All of these questions are much more interesting than what we are getting out of the story, because we are getting NADA, nothing, zero.By book 2, I am really hating Willow, but the authors keep telling us how great and mature Willow is even though they continue to offer evidence to the contrary.  Then they add in the love triangle, which has not added a thing to this story.In book 3, the original story has become a backdrop for Willow's love life.  The original story is barely in play now.  While it opens with the skirmish between the shelter and the survivors from the outside, nothing new is learned beyond a couple of new powers being added to Willow's arsenal.  This skirmish was the major event that occurred in the book.SPOILERS AHEAD****I was just shaking my head when this skirmish resulted in Willow and Tony becoming the elected leaders for the group.  Of course the majority of adults would choose a 16 year old girl to lead them.  Since Willow just does what she wants and lies to get her own way, it makes perfect sense to elect her as leader.  While Willow is a great weapon, she has never shown herself to have any leadership skills.  A nuclear missile is also a great weapon; let's elect it to be the leader. Willow lies, manipulates and connives to get her own way.  These are not the skills of a leader, but they are the actions of a young immature girl.  She is exactly what intelligient adults want...to lock in a room until she can be sent to college.We spend a majority of time with Tony and Willow romancing each other...ahhh young love.  However, this didn't move the story along.  And as added incentive, Alec is back in the picture.  Alec and Tony do the jealousy display...flash some feathers.  Alec gets a little obsessive for a moment.  It was getting boring, so rather than moving the original story along, the authors elect to go back to the love triangle.  This is a classic time waster.Then we get one more brief trip to free prisoners from the previous skirmish.This story is not what it was advertised to be in the first book.  The first book had the romance as a secondary element to enhance the story about the virus, the mutations, and the conspiracies that appeared to be going on.  Now the story is about Willow and her men, the original story is just barely mentioned, and it is getting BORING.I checked the authors' web site to see if we will ever get beyond Willow and her love life, and I found "Team Alec" and "Team Tony" buttons.  I don't think the authors have the ability to develop any of the previous story.  If you purchased this story through amazon, you have already paid $8 for the series.  I returned this book to my kindle for a full refund.  I am not paying $4 for Willow's love life.  And just so you know, kindle serials are one set price, which you pay one time.  You are not being required to pay ever increasing dollar amounts for a serial which could go on forever without ever providing any answers to the original challenges in the first book.The authors' must have also realized that no one likes being price gouged.  The book is now reduced by a dollar.