wasn't able to finish book #1 ( )

2.5 stars

This duet series has me seriously conflicted. I believe there is a good story there.. but it just didn't really work for me in this form. I think it would've been much better as one book with some stuff cut out. It felt like it needed more editing - for example, why was it mentioned soooo often that another character was nice. Maybe it was on purpose to set her apart from the nice people, but it just took me out of the story and it interrupted the flow of the story. If I hadn't already bought the second book in this series I probably wouldn't have bothered with it. The first book just doesn't really make any sense or provide a backstory for the ridiculous behavior and it didn't really hold my attention.

This book was a little better. Some information is revealed and things start to make a bit more sense and I didn't hate them as much. There are some twists and surprises, none of them were big shocks however. Especially the last 'twist' was quite predictable. I'm not going to give anything away, but I will say that this book was full of awful things and I found it be quite depressing and that wasn't really what I was looking for at the moment.
But it was an interesting story and I think I would've liked it better if it was more 'together' and if made more sense.

I think it's most likely just me, since there are dozens and dozens of positive reviews. So give it a go for yourself :) ( )