Well, so, the best thing about this 2-book series was the relationship between Ella and Porter. It was sweet, passionate and seemed real to me. I absolutely loved Porter, he was absolutely amazing and almost too perfect to be true. I thought Ella still seemed a bit immature, but she was certainly not the main attraction to this story for me.
Now, this installment starts off about 8-weeks after the end of book one, and our H/h are still not together because of what happened with the burglary. I don't want to spill any beans, but readers must read these books in order. I really enjoyed 85% of the book, and I still was swooning at all things Porter, but the end really didn't work for me. I think what really and ultimately bothered me with this series is that, in both books, there was mostly a love story to have the endings of each attempt to be suspenseful. Not a whole lot of creepiness or strange happenings happened in either book to build up to the level of suspense I think may have been the ultimate goal. It was almost as if the author couldn't quite mix the love story with the suspense. There was a bit more of an attempt in the second book, but when we hear our villain reveal what his motivations were, I was like...what?! Really?! And not one police personnel found this information and figured out the motivation? It just was not woven into the story well enough to make this a true romantic suspense. And I am used to reading suspense books, that is what I mainly read before discovering these indie/contemporary/new adult genre of books.
With that being said, I loved Porter and Ella's story so much. I think this story ultimately would have worked better had the burglary been random and all of the happenings within the story were simply set in motion by a cheating boyfriend who just disappeared.
Bottom line...this is a really well written love story and the suspenseful stuff actually detracted from my enjoyment rather than added to it. This truly could have been an excellent story without the added suspense. Maybe extend the timeframe of the amnesia and see these two fall in love all over again? Just this reader's opinion. It's worth reading these books to read about Porter, so yeah, pretty good stuff. I would say 3 to 3.5-stars for both books.
I must say that the author struggles with homophones; she used shutter rather than shudder, there was also a misuse of chorded rather than corded when mentioning Porter's muscles and a few others I highlighted. Also, the term is 'used to' not 'use to' which was used incorrectly often in this book; it is 'I used to work at a bookstore' rather than 'I use to work at a bookstore.' There were other issues here and there I highlighted, but I still enjoyed the story very much.