Review: Disappointed!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
I love this series, this writer. I couldn't wait for this book to come out. But I felt I didn't get what we were told we were going to get. Which was Dorothy and Hawk's story. This whole book felt like a moment, a day in the life and what a grim day it was. Gone was the epic sweep of MS books past....the laughs, the crazy out of control-ness, the zany personalities....it was kitchen sink grim. And not a heck of a lot happened either. It was mostly a coming to terms moment for the main characters involved--D, Hawk and Jace. Each one of these characters had long moments of thought to themselves about the crossroads they were facing, the lessons they'd learned, the choices they needed to make. But it just didn't make for gripping, exciting, intriguing reading. And Jace's scenes weren't terribly interesting, I didn't care about him so much, not invested. I was greedy for Hawk and D!!! No such satisfaction, though.  We found out about Hawk's background, and then a choice he and Deuce made for the good of the club and......that was it. Really. Yep, we saw black hearted ZZ (sigh) and that story line continues on until we get to his book.My red hot disappointment lies in the fact that we don't get to see how it all began with Hawk and Dorothy. When that secret relationship was revealed in a previous book, it was a TOTAL mindblower, it was fantastic! I was dying from then to see how it got started...to live all that hot, secret intensity between these two. How he "forced" her, how she couldn't say no to him, how he was a good dad through it all, etc, etc...(Ach, don't get me started!) Did we get those scenes here, the book dedicated to these two wonderful characters?? Nope. I still can't believe it!  Instead we get recollections, thinking, more thinking, pondering, deciding, declaring...all rather passive and tedious after the beginning excitement wore off.Yes, it is MS so it is well written and emotional. But it's all thinking, pondering and deciding and a lot less wild and funky. And no, it's not because "they're older now." So what? I wanted to live Hawk and Dorothy like we've vibrantly lived the other couples' stories in all the previous books. But we don't get to. Why, Madeline?? The mood of this book was very subdued, serious, which made it different from the others. (Yes, the goodbye scene made me cry.) And, no, different is not a bad thing, but this story just wasn't a very interesting read.