I waited a while before doing this review because I was SO MAD about this book. Book 1 wasn’t bad, I enjoyed it in general so I was excited to get book 2.
Book 2 is one of the worst heroines I’ve read in a while.
There’s going to be a bit sp oil er ish con tent below!
Lots of it’s cool attitude to smoke wee d view and action that happens with this heroine and some with the H too. When it’s really not cool.
Paige finds out that she’s adopted. She goes on this huge mission to find out who her parents are.
1 She blames Juliet for ALL of her issues. It’s Julia’s fault she was snatch blah blah blah. She never acknowledges that Juliet didn’t have a hand in what happened to her or what Julia went through. NO CARE at all for Juliet. Now props that all these females in these series don’t all have to be besties and hang on one another, but WOW. This is your sister, even if you now know you’re adopted, still someone she grew up with. She acts like her life has been horrible moving some, but yet still dating and attending college. But again, it’s oh sooooo bad and it’s Juliet’s fault. There is SO much anger and resentment coming out of Paige. It was Spoiled Brat 101.
And then after Juliet almost gets killed and is recovering Paige will have NOTHING to do with her, even over the holidays. Now I understand being mad and feeling resentment over some things towards family members, but this was a WHOLE other level of plain self-centered hate. It was the all about Paige show.
“ pushed back the anger that made it’s way to the surface every time I remembered it was Juliet’s mess “
“ I Stiffened at the mention of my sister’s name again. “
It was just over and over with the hate towards Juliet when Juliet had done nothing but miss Paige and worry over her. The rants are frequent.
Basically, Paige is a HUGE B WORD.
So besides Paige being mean….let’s not forget Kai and his EX GIRLFRIEND coming back into the picture.
He’s a womanizer.
He starts liking Paige, they become friends, Paige pulls this whole push him away business constantly and won’t voice her feelings. But then the EX, Daisy, comes into the picture.
This is the girl that according to all the details in the book, that Kai loved fiercely and Daisy actually cared about him too, but she made selfish decisions and left. Not sure her love was like Kai’s. But it seems like they had a really good thing as teenagers and he still loves her. At the 75 percent point in the story Kai thinks, “ No matter how many years it’s been, she still affected me. A piece of me will always be hers. “ This is his thought process on his EX Daisy. I seriously almost returned the book on KU at this point. It was just so obvious that he was still in love with and apparently would continue to be in love with his ex.
This ruined the already non-existence chance of romance kicking off in this story for Paige and Kai.
This story ends on a cliff hanger of sorts. It just did not feel like a smooth wrap up at all. And then it flashes back to Paige’s mother and Venom when they were kids. Are they going to be book 3???? This would be a HUGE mistake as Paige’s mother supposedly committed sui cide. I don’t want another Paige book even though it didn’t seem wrapped up. Just say they’re doing great and happy in book 3. And PLEASE don’t do a book for her parents as so many details have already been unveiled and it’s said her mom is no longer around.
Another note, the cover was great except the RANDOM EYEBALL in the center. I’m sure that was placed their because in this fantasy story she has PURPLE eyes.