Review: It's only 1/3 of a story and it's poorly written. Pass!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2012
I was so annoyed with this series that I refuse to buy the 3rd book.  The characters are caricatures of people.  Cree, the hero, is purported to be a "firm but fair leader" and yet he shows no evidence of fairness.  And his "firmness" is more like totalitarianism.  Why are we supposed to think that men who growl when angry are sexy???  He's as much of a bully and a tyrant as the buffoon that he bested in the first book ... just has better abs.  Dawn is alternately headstrong and foolhardy.  A child would have made better decisions in some instances.  And the reading ad nauseum about Dawn's hand movements to communicate with others was seriously annoying.  Plus, if you actually stopped to consider what movements she made, there is NO WAY that people could have gotten her meaning out of them.  And then every once in a while, at some critical juncture, Cree or one of Dawn's friends would suddenly slide into a 2 paragraph monologue which supposedly perfectly encapsulated Dawn's thoughts/feelings/intentions.  Come on, Donna Fletcher, you can do better than this!And while I was looking for a little sizzle, the sparks that flew every time they came within sight of each other became sort of ridiculous. One second she's worried and determined to go take care of some business and suddely he crosses her path and she puddles.  Give me a break.The writing itself is subpar and seriously in need of some heavy-handed editing and proofreading.  Occasionally I come across a book this bad and it makes me wonder what happens in the world of publishing that a work like this so clearly unready for publication gets pushed to the masses. Poor in quality and in execution.