Ruby Vincent

Have you ever read a book and felt like you are suffering from deja vu? Well that's what I get from this book. All the way up until the very last page, and then it changed. But the entire concept, the entire book like the personality of the book, and all of the personalities of the characters involved, I swear to God I've read this book before. But then the last chapter serve me off. So I don't know. So I'm going to read the second book and see what happens. I'll share my opinion at the end show more if I would recommend this book series to friends. show less

Currently on a three day road to make it back to school so I doubt I’ll write a full review of this while it’s still fresh in my mind but I’ll say that this wasn’t bad. Definitely not a favorite and this is really a 2.5 star rating. The reason I didn’t give this two stars here is because I do plan to continue the series (mostly because of the cliffhanger) so that pushes it to three for me. There were too many unexplored side characters in this book for my taste. I wish we had show more focused on a smaller group and gotten to know them better. The signing element wasn’t as bad as it could have been but there were still times where it was assumed he could lip read perfectly when really you can only ever get 40% of what is said even if you’re really good at it and a lot of characters talked about learning to sign as if it would be easy when in reality it takes a very long time to learn just like any other language. I am interested to see what happened in book two and I hope the plot is more focused and there’s less info dumping. show less

This was a fine follow up to book one. To be honest, I read book one on a three day road trip and I barely remember it. Luckily, this book caught me back up at the beginning. While this was a fine follow up, it very much felt like a middle book with very little development.

There was a little bit of development in this book with regards to the relationship but not as much as I wanted. The most development happened between Ember and Hiro, probably because he was pretty absent from book one, show more but it wasn't as much as I was expecting. Aside from the little bit with Hiro and a bit with Clay, it still felt the attention was mostly on Royal and she was just hooking up with other people.

The beginning of this book and the end had some action but the middle was pretty slow for me. There wasn't as much mystery solving as I wanted. It seems like they're just trying to draw it out into three books. Rio also wasn't as much of a barrier as I expected him to be and I felt like even though the ending had more action, it was a bit all over the place at times. I'm still intrigued about what the conclusion will be and I will almost certainly read it but this book wasn't exactly what I wanted it to be. show less

Loved this series

OK, first I have to say if you enjoy sleeping don't buy these books. I've binge read the whole series in two days. Yeah, I'm on lockdown, but I have kids. They got to live their best life eating junk, playing electronics and living on YouTube. Mom got to spend four years with zee and her guys. I call that a win win. So enjoy your lockdown time and let the kids do their thing. Dive in to this series. The only thing you're going to regret is the book hangover.