Mila’s Reviews > Silver Elite > Status Update

So to sum up. What a shit book.

For example she finds Cross sooo sexy and irresistible even though he would KILL her and everyone she loves (as far as she knows) BUT she despises the character that turned in his mom right away. She doesn’t even once drool over any of his features or his ruthlessness like she does Cross’. This NEEEDED to be explained but it wasn’t. It made me hate Wren.

As a side note Wren and Lydia pissed me off so much in this book as well. I didn’t like that Wren had more sympathy for the primes that wanted to kill her than for the modified that turned coat to save themselves. At the very least I expected her to hate them all equally. It made her feel like a pick me for the primes. There should have been more inner turmoil to explain why she sympathises with the primes more.

I was officially done with her when she healed the burns that covered her blood mark to make up with Cross. In what world would a survival expert remove this one crucial protection to secure a man??? I could not believe how dumb that was. And to prove my point she got caught almost immediately by Lydia. This was such a convoluted way for her to get caught.

And I can’t believe how dumb Wren is in this book. She’s described to be so smart and cunning and expert in survival but her actions and words don’t show that at all. She should have been characterised differently for her actions to make sense. She also had no depth as a character because the narrative treated her as this perfect badass. She didn’t grow at all. And without a proper plot it was so apparent.

Ah just imagine if Kaine turned out to be Wolf. Now that would have been something. Not 5 stars worthy but at least 2-3 stars.

Honestly Cross turned so weird when the Wolf reveal happened. It felt like he still didn’t want to choose sides. Like he was mad that Wren was a rebel even though his father would kill him too if he knew about him. I didn’t feel like it made their relationship any deeper. It just gave it a very icky undertone that Cross wasn’t immediately explaining himself and apologising how he had to act.

Honestly I wish Wolf was written differently as well. Wren said he was her best friend but there was no depth to their conversations. I kinda wished it was used in the narrative as a ”It’s sad that this is the closest friendship she has” and not as this deep relationship to fuel her and Cross.

The wolf reveal would have hit sooo different if only at that point Wren started to look at him differently. I don’t like how the current trend is that the main character has to be immediately horny for the main love interest. Expecially when it makes no sense.

Also it was so distracting and took me out of the book how often Wren would drool over Cross. It made no sense to me that she could desire that man. He would kill her. There was a possibility for an arc to explain it but the writer was not interested in that. She just wants him because he’s hot and that’s not good enough for me when the man is this rotten.