Review: Difficult subject matter - very well done
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2013
This is the third installment in Maddy Barone's dystopian, paranormal romance series.  Where the first story was sweet but lacked conflict and the second story had some unlikely coincidences, this story is nearly perfect!As before, Ms. Barone does a wonderful job world-building and creating interesting characters that you really care about.In the story, the heroine has survived being raped by several men.  This is handled in a straight forward manner that does not minimize the horror and does not dwell needlessly on it either.  I thought it was thoughtful and well written.I liked the quiet strength of the hero and the way the hero and heroine seemed to belong together.  They were very well-matched.In all the books of this series, characters from past stories, as well as characters to be featured in upcoming books make appearances.  The author does a great job of juggling quite a few characters while making them unique and interesting.I also like the way she balances POV.  She has done a great job of linking the stories and building a believable time-line.  There is some time-line overlap between stories, but it works to link the stories and is not repetitive.You could read this as a stand-alone story - but I think it's so much better to read the whole series in order.