Review: Dragging it out...what happened to the story?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first one, generally speaking; it lost the momentum of the story.May be spoilers ahead...I did like getting to know the characters a little better in this segment, but the smart, excited-to-finally-know-her-dad, main character of the first book seems to have almost completely disappeared, and an insecure, silly, can't-make-a smart-decision-to-save-her-life girl has taken over the story.Kihanna's relationship with her dad has gone nowhere; she doesn't even trust him enough to let him help her - and he could.  No relationship-building going on there at all.  She is including her new 'brother' in her adventures though, and that is a plus; positive, budding sibling relationship there.This book got a bit heavy for a teen/YA story (1 - murder scene, and 2 - parents and everyone taking it for granted that 17-year-olds are sleeping together regularly - where's that sensible girl again? And the dad who loves her??).Book #2 seemed to be mostly filler, unfortunately - same old, same old - Kihanna and friends meet in her room (or at school, or at a party, etc.etc.) - the stalker leaves a clue - they all get upset - decide to keep hiding everything from the grownups who could actually protect them, and...regroup somewhere else to do it all over again, and again, and again.  Filler.If I thought I could look forward to getting answers (even a resolution) in the next/3rd book, I might be inclined to give it one more shot - because this author seems to weave a fair story (when she's not caught in a repeating loop).  But as I mentioned in my review of the first book, there are five books so far slated in this series, and the reviews I've read for books #3 and #4 give every indication that the stalker mystery is still going on (and on and on); nothing resolved.  I'm guessing that the next two books are filled with...more filler; and I am not willing to pay $4 per book for the next three installments ($15 for all five books - i.e. one story) to keep going round and round in a never-ending loop.Sorry - though I am curious enough to wonder who the stalker/killer is, I think I am done here.  I believe that this author has talent; I would like to see her tell a good story in fewer books and without unnecessary filler just slapping more chapters/books in the middle to draw out (what started out as) a good story idea, unreasonably.  I wish her best of luck.As for me, maybe I'll just wait for book #5 (if that is the last one) and find out how things end; it doesn't appear that I'll miss much between now and then.  Darn.