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| 1.5 Stars |
Third time is the charm #notevenclose
The results are in and they’re not in favour of this trilogy. It is over and my feelings are those of relief and sadness. Relief about all the confusion and uncertainty I’d felt from the first two books concerning me liking or not liking the books, because I am sure of how I feel about these books now. Sadness cause the new found feelings I stated before are not leaning towards the good side of the spectrum.
After so much confusion I am finally able to elaborate on likes and dislikes, so let me do so bellow.
Dislikes
- Heroine: Charlene Anne Bennett a.k.a Charlie is forgettable. That is the worst thing that can happen to a hero. Even though I didn’t like how she thought or acted, how annoying, enraging, selfish and childish she was, all these facts have already started to fade away from my mind and I finished reading a couple of hours ago.
- Danger: What danger? I never felt fear or any and all threats in these books. The Portland Hive Vampires - all powerful and dangerous and always a few steps ahead. Where were they?!? Maybe they were indeed ahead, so much so that we couldn’t actually see them. Disappointing. Then there was Sanctum – super special and lethal ninjas. What did they do? Not much, if anything really. Disappointed again.
- Action: There was none, or rather not enough where there should have been. Though I know you can’t have much action without any villains or elements of danger…
Likes
- Side characters: I really liked most, if not all, the side characters. The Sexy Six, Jayden, Lucas, Lincoln & Sasha (from the very few times I agreed with the heroine, Sasha is indeed #spiritanimal & #lifegoals material), I even liked Tessa in the end. Becca is also in the list, smart and adorably innocent. I want to know more about every single one of these characters, they were all great, seriously.
- Romance: Yes, I was surprised at myself about that. Even though there is something missing in this romance I did like it to an extent. I’m not 100% what it was that was missing, but there was some chemistry between the two – Charlie & Ryder. Though the pace was a bit all over the place – slow, then non-existent, then regular, then super fast and vise-versa. Compared to everything else I will keep this misshapen romance in the Likes. As for the rest of the couples – Jayden & Oliver, Sam & Becca, Kyle & Sasha, Jared & Tessa – from the little I could see they were a tad more steadfast I enjoyed them, even more so than the main romance.
To conclude, despite having a lot of things I didn’t like and a few I did in this trilogy, everything about those books are fading from my memory. Everything except the overall sense of “Meh” and that is a damn shame. I’m not actually going to forget anything & everything from/about these books but since the feeling of “Meh” is oh so very strong I won’t ever bother to actively seek this info out within my mind. Again a damn shame cause Jaymin is among my fav authors.
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