*More detailed coming on Thursday! But a quick recap ---- BELOW!
I would give this book 3 1/2 stars and I’ll explain the lower rating of a book by one of my favorite authors. Jennifer Lynn (or J. Lynn) started as my favorite author and gradually became a hit or miss for me. This third book to the Wicked Trilogy was a miss, I cannot believe I'm saying this as I'm typing it. I gave the book a 3 1/2 star rating because it's J Lynn, and I think that’s being generous. In reality, it’s probably more of a 2 star rating but I was invested after reading the first two installments and didn’t have the heart to go lower. I finished the book, which also makes me feel like it may deserve a 3 1/2 star rating.
I don’t want to give away spoilers, so if you want to know what I’m talking about read the first two books, Wicked and Torn (links at the bottom!). Overall the writing was decent and J. Lynn was successful in avoiding making her characters seem juvenile as she has in some of her other series. My problem with this book was the extremely slow development. We spend the majority of the book watching the H and h flop around like fish out of water trying to figure out what the hell they are going to do. After finishing the second book, I was excited to see these characters actually do something, go somewhere, make a plan and follow through. Instead of doing those things, the book was spent doing further relationship development, breaking and rekindling relationships, and adding in more new characters that I am apparently supposed to become attached to? I can’t attach to these new characters when you have hundreds of different characters to keep track of as it is.
Though I feel the majority of the pages were wasted on useless developments that added very little to the plot, I did enjoy the book enough to finish. I was invested enough in the H and h to keep reading even though I disagreed with everything that was developing. I can’t decide whether I would suggest this series when this is the last book released, especially due to the lack of complete closure. I loved the first two installments, but I feel this last one soured my overall book experience.
*** 1/2 STARS
xoxo
Binch
