I had read the first two books, and while there were certainly quite a few issues with those, I definitely wanted to give this a shot, as it really had a lot of potential. And unfortunately I didn’t have the momentum of the first two books behind me, as I had read them a few weeks prior, so it was little rough.
The book is called resolve, but very few things actually got resolved. For as short of a series as this was, there was very little wrapping up at the end. I felt like nothing happened in this book. It almost felt as though this was Liv’s book—I know more about her than I do about Quinn after reading this last installment.
And I would not consider this to be a RH. She had a relationship with Tyson, and she slept with the others. There was one of them (Jonathan?) that I’m not sure she even had as much as a two word conversation with in this book. The other 3 were completely interchangeable, with absolutely no characterization. I think the author even considers them to be interchangeable, because at one point, one of them kissed her in the hallway, and then a few chapters later, this scene is referenced, but the guy’s name had been switched. As if it truly doesn’t matter which one it was.
I also genuinely don’t know what any of the characters are supposed to look like. Which, fair enough if you want me to use my imagination. But then at the end of the book it’s mentioned that Liv has dark hair. This should’ve been part of her description when we first met her, or mentioned again at the beginning of the book at some point to remind readers.
There was also just one really weird thing that bothered me in the beginning of the book. She kept saying “murder one.” I believe this is supposed to be first degree man slaughter? I have never in my life heard this referred to as “murder one,” as if the second one is yet to come. But this is actually one of the things that we don’t get resolution on. Did the guy get convicted? What happened with the trial? The first two books made this huge deal out of it—made the trauma of her mother’s murder one of the main plot points—and then we just skip right over Quinn’s testimony and the resolution of the case.
I just think that all of the books could use some heavy developmental editing.