Wow! It started out slow; then, it picked up. More action; few twists and turns. Mr. Lawrence took a different route on this book. Honesetly, I like where it is going, especially with Aria and Turk. I liked Turk in the first book, Mystic City; but, he is written more into this book. It has been awhile since the first book and fortunately, some aspects of the first book are rehashed in this novel. Aria is bad arse. Sure there were a few times when she did not use her noggin and common sense; thus, she was captured and rescued, almost captured, almost killed; yet someone always had her back--Turk. Sigh!!! He is HOT. I love it. I don't want to give anything away. Usually, I do an all out review, but not on this one. Just know that it is a great read. I am craving for the third installment like right now. Don't take too long with the third book, Mr. Lawrence. 3 out of 5 starsThe beginning of this book was probably 2.5 stars, but luckily it redeemed itself.Aria is an idiot. Throughout the whole novel, she did not see the consequences of her wishful thinking. She was immature and thought that everything would just work out. She was also extremely selfish in her dealings with other characters, especially with Hunter. She did not seem to understand that he had more important things to do than to be in a relationship with her.Hunter was also extremely rude to Aria. He excluded her from his plans for no reason and was just an annoying character overall. I think Lawrence was trying too hard to set up the love triangle between Hunter and Turk. If you make Hunter annoying, Turk looks a lot better. Although Turk is the only consistently good character in the novel, I would prefer that Turk and Aria remain friends. The flirting seems very forced.In addition to Hunter, Shannon is just a horrible person for absolutely no reason. I understand that she wouldn't have trusted Aria right away, but the insults were just unnecessary. It was obvious that her character was being set up for growth, but this just made the change unbelievable.With the plot, most of it was fairly good. There was action and betrayal and whatever. However, a lot of points were not very believable, especially with the stand-offs between the "good" and "bad" guys. There was the cliche "I am going to tell you all of my plans so that the author can stall time before you kill me", especially in the battle between Elissa and the mystics. She could have easily killed all of them as soon as they walked in, yet there had to be a 2 page explanation of how she was power-hungry. Besides these things, the story was fairly good, and the ending was definitely the best way it could have been handled. Aria finally grew up and realized that she was not fighting for her relationship. Thank god. She broke up with Hunter, who became extremely whiny at the end of the story.I think I will continue on with the series, but I am not super excited for it.
What do You think about El Último Corazón (2014)?
I shall finish it eventually, but for the time being, it's driving me crazy.
—Kalvin
Besser als der erste Teil. Bin schon gespannt auf den nächsten!:D
—nick
Enjoyed the first one... LOVED this one!! Full review to come.
—Gameover5856
I'm really not okay with how the romance played out.
—lolo
