One word about this book: FINALLY!
I’m not sure how much I can say without giving too much away
– not that’s really stopped me before – but I have to say that this book was
probably my favorite so far of the series. The twists, which one would think
would have gotten old by book six of a series, twisted into areas that I still
didn’t expect them to. The action was non-stop, and even when you did get a
reprieve I took a deep breath with my characters and enjoyed it because I knew
that it wasn’t going to last.
I’ve read some of the reviews for this series before I
started it, and a lot people complained that there wasn’t a lot of character
development and that was a big reason they didn’t like it. I have to disagree.
The character development in these books is just fantastic. I sort of envy
Caine’s ability to develop these characters over an arc of books like she does.
I can barely do it over fifteen chaptered stories.
Anyway, the characters are just fantastic. My favorites for
development are Richard and Monica Morell. Richard has really grown from the
burly cop with the crazy family to someone the town of Morganville including
Claire and her friends can trust. The moment near the end when Richard hands
Claire a knife and then pats her on the shoulder was just so fantastic – it
really showed his growth as a character. And as for Monica, I’ll admit when the
book started and she went back to her evil bitch ways I was really pissed off.
I thought Caine would have kept her as she was at the end of book 5 considering
everything that she had been through. However, there was a reprieve when Monica
softened after Claire asked about her mother. Just wow fantastic.
As for Claire’s parents, is it sad that I’m rooting for a
vampire to kill them? I mean, honestly, the town is going to shit and they’re
going to screw up their escape attempt because they wanted to chastise their
daughter about having sex with Shane. Arresting him? Honestly? Please, kill
them off, PLEASE?
Finally, there’s Claire and Shane’s relationship. I’ll admit
when the book started I was going to be annoyed because hello. Shane was in
prison, so obviously there wasn’t going to be too much Shane/Claire fluff until
he was broken out of prison and knowing the way that Caine worked she was
probably going to save his breakout until the end. But when she did have Shane
get broken out of jail – sort of – I was excited, especially because Claire was
seventeen. And man, did she not disappoint, which is odd considering this was a
YA.
Final review: 4 out of 5 reviews. By book 6 you would think
an author couldn’t pull any punches, but wow, were there some deep ones.
Bookshelf worthy? I’ve sort of changed my mind about this
series. Why it’s not a physical bookshelf worthy, I would definitely consider
getting them as a digital edition – especially since I’ve been reading them
through the digital library anyway.
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