Review: Feckin Awesome
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2013
Well the lovely Karina Halle has done it yet again with Shooting Scars and she has done it well.I'm going to try to write this review with as little spoilers as possible. So SS is the second book in The Artist's Trilogy we find ourselves with our three main characters in what can be described as an emotional apocalypse. Javier, Ellie and Camden are all sorting through their emotions, emotions consisting of love, hate, revenge, obsession, and fear. At the same time each character in this story shows not only their weaknesses but their strengths.I can say honestly in the beginning of SS I wanted to smack Ellie, I felt like she was being gullible but as the book progressed I realized we were finally seeing the real Ellie, her vulnerability, her confusion and her fear and at the end we saw her rise above it. She wasn't just a con artist and she wasn't just a naive woman, she was Ellie and she had to break before she could move forward and I liked her all the more for it.Now Camden, my Rambo tattoo artist. I will forever be Team Camden, he is badass and a bag of tricks, I was happy we saw not only heartbroken Camden but we saw determined Camden, his devotion in this book is unbreakable and his love is undeniable.Javier, Oh Javier I have yet to figure him out but I do enjoy trying. Javier is quite the puzzle; part of me believes he truly loves Ellie part of me believes he is incapable of such an emotion but this is his internal confusion as well, one I hope to see unravel.So what sets things in motion, well throw in a few druglords, a chance at revenge, a Mexico backdrop and a concerned father figure/terminator named Gus and you are in for quite a ride.This book is thrilling, fast-paced and with the alternating point of views in the storytelling you really can't go wrong. Karina has never disappointed and this is just another example. Shooting Scars = Feckin Awesome!