Ok, so that was weird. I just marked it as the book I'm currently reading, and then a minute later marked it as read. Haha, I haven't been on goodreads all day and I happened to start this book this morning, and finished it a couple of minutes ago, so I didn't have a chance to ever mark it as read. ANYWAYS... I didn't enjoy this book as much. I mean, it wasn't bad, but I just really didn't get into it! I felt as if I had to read it, seeing as I had started the series and couldn't just stop it with that last book, so it was sort of a necessity. It wasn't too bad, I just found it a bit...annoying, I suppose. So, it's a continued on adventure of Ariana at APH. She's finally with Palmer securely, she's finally killed Kaitlynn, and you'd think she has everything she wanted, and would finally be happy. But no. It's just a bit of a shock, seeing as I LOVED the last one and this one was just...ok. First off, let me start with the smaller things. I found a few grammar errors, but seriously, who cares about that, there wasn't a ton. But there was one big error that sort of irked me, to be honest. At one point where Lexa is fainting, she says "Kaitlynn?" And SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT KAITLYNN IS, SHE KNOWS WHO LILIAN OSWALD IS. So at first I thought, oh no, she found out about Kaitlynn's secret identity and Ariana is going to freak out. But nope, Ariana acted as if she said "Lilian" which I suppose Brian meant to make her say. This could prove to confuse a lot of readers, if they don't think about it a bit more as I did. Also, I just really don't like how these books are pretty expensive, I got this one on Kindle for about $10, and they are so short! I just wish she would COMBINE all the books into one huge one and just put it for a bit of a higher price, because this is just annoying. I go through them so quickly, and then I have to pay another $10 for the next one, and they are usually pretty long series, like her last series (Private) had over 10 books! It irks me a lot, but I suppose that's how she makes money, haha. OK, now getting into the actual book! I don't like Jasper. Haha, very straight up, I know, but it gave me a headache reading about him and Ariana. It's just like, just yesterday you're all drooling all over Palmer and spent a whole friggin book trying to be with him, and then the next book comes and it's like, oh I lied. I like Jasper, Palmer's boring now. Like SERIOUSLY, make up your damn mind! And then there's this one part where Jasper says "I love you" and then after says "...I know there's nothing you could ever do, nothing you could ever say, that would make me not love you." UGH. How many times has this been used in movies and books? Like please, be original dude! I think Brian was going for a romantic feel, but I just felt even more and more annoyed and...disgusted? Haha, I'm sorry, just saying my opinion. They also got rid of Grandma Convington so easily! I thought that could be like a big issue in this book, the grandma comes to visit and notices it's "Emma Walsh" and that could have gotten the plotline going a bit! This one seemed as if it had no big plot...just that she was trying to cover up the whole murder thing with Lexa and wants to kill Reed. Haha. I just found this book very annoying. I don't think I've ever rated one of Brian's books so low before, but the description of it fits it perfectly. "It was ok." Her surprise ending in this one really didn't leave me with an open mouth, more like a headache. I guess I'm just a little more than tired of this series, but I still feel as if it is a necessity to finish it. I sort of just want to get it out of the way, find out what happens to Reed, Noelle, and Ariana, and that's it. But of course I still have to go through...I believe only one more book? Oh god, I hope so. I like Kate Brian but she should have just added the last book to this one to make one big book, and just put it for a bit of a higher price. I think $10 for this book was a bit too expensive anyways, to be honest, but maybe it was only because it was on Kindle. They didn't have it at the bookstore so I sort of had to. So anyways, yeah. 2 stars for this book! I'm hoping the last one will be amazing, because I just didn't feel it with this book. :) Just my opinion, though. Ok, the Privilege series started ok, not great, but ok with all the things Ariana had to do to get out of Brenda T. and everything. But, the more i read the following books the more i started to get bored. The fact that i found so many mistakes annoyed me like hell. Sometimes, in some conversations the name Kaitlynn came out of nowhere from one of the characters, when they were referring to "Lillian", but no one besides Ariana knew who Lillian really was, so, why is her name appearing in the conversation? ODD. And like that, a few other stupid mistakes that leaves you wondering if anyone ever read the book before it was published -.-I gotta say, i don't remember having this problem with Private, in fact, i liked Private very, very much. So this is kind of disappointing because i was expecting a little more from this books. The only thing i can't wait to read is when Ariana meets Reed again. I want to know what she's planning and how Reed is going to react. I'd love to read that Noelle comes back or something, i kinda miss her.Some will say that Ariana is just the perfect character you love to hate or hate to love or whatever. I just hate her. She's very annoying. I hated when she killed Kiran, i mean -.- she could have just said "i dont know you, you're confusing me with someone else", but no, immediately she had to think the only way she could come out of that one was killing her supposed friend. But, then again, she's a psycho. I'm currently reading Cruel Love, so let's see how this one is going to end.
What do You think about Pure Sin (2010)?
My favorite one of the series! I love all of the secrecy!
—Nilonta
