A beautifully written series that never gets boring as it pulls every emotion out of you. ( )

4 stars for the first book (part), 3 stars for the second.
Too many things ticked me off, there were even a few WTF moments, mostly because of messed up timeline.
Not sure what Matt was doing in the second book at all. Guesses anyone?
The list continues, but I am not in the mood to pick the book apart right now.
One major concern - what happened to Kevin's case? Kevin paid Roan to find Kai/Jacob Tolliver at the end of the first book (a month ago? a year ago?), and that's the last we heard of it :(
Very sketchy installment.

3 stars.

PS Throw slippers at me, the only person I felt bad for was Eli.


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Another series that just keeps getting better and better!.Andrea Speed again weaves a tale full of emotion, action and beautiful characters.

The characters are so well written that their emotions are palpable, As a reader you are drawn into the story, into their lives. You are made a part of it and again they grabbed my heart and made a home in it.

I can't wait to read the next one!

Reread October 2020
I had to continue straight on after Bloodlines even though I know the beginning of this book is also quite tough. Even knowing what is going to happen, I still needed the reassurance that Roan would survive. No matter that it's been 7 years since I've read this first, it is still has as great an impact as it did the first time round. ( )

2.5 again.
I'm not sure what to say about this. Maybe because I've had enough of crazy lovers who lost someone up and talking to their dead SO in the next installment, in a book that doesn't involve actual ghosts, and thinking that amount of crazy is the normal 'angsty' default way to dealing with heavy loss. Or maybe because there's still so much tell, tell, tell and "This is what happened" and none of the actual showing. (And I'm not going to touch the (!) and such inserted in the text this time).
It makes me wonder how I liked the one I read that made me want to read the series and failed to notice this. I guess I thought it was a fun idea, or maybe the writing had improved by then, or I was just in the right mood that I overlooked it.

In brief, I keep having the same troubles as with the previous books: Interesting idea, could-be-ok plots, but less than desirable execution (at least for my reading taste). I was actually prepared to give this one a full 3 stars because there was actually kissing (on the lips, le gasp!) and actually some more relationship stuff that made it feel a bit more like it really was focused on the characters and not in a weird in-between this time, but then the last half was sort of meh and ruined that feeling and 2.5 it is.

And also, I don't know what's with the need of describing to detail what people we only see once are wearing, it's not like it affected anything. Or knowing the full menu of what they're eating. ( )

Great storytelling.
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