**SPOILER ALERT** Taking place 8 months after the Poseidon fiasco, Island is with her dad, Stiles, & Alex in a remote castle lair. She is closed off from the world with memory loss. Unsure of what's true or not, she is seeing images that she can't place and feelings that don't quite add up about the people around her. Shocking news has her off kilter even more when she's kidnapped by March & Co. March has been searching for her since Poseidon & is devastated that she doesn't remember him. Slowly giving her details while on the run from the Lions, the Board, & Island's biological family it's a violent & eye opening journey to get her well again. Some of the story is a little out of this world but shocking things happen, secrets are revealed, lives are lost, & March and Island just might have a happy ever after. ( )

Seems like a couple ideas that were stretched to make a book-length piece of writing.

Yeah. Not very good at all. Starts off pretty good, and it feels like there might be something in it, but...

nope.

The 3rd act was... ridiculous. And Biscuit simply stopped behaving normally throughout the middle. I dunno how she got so lame, but anyway... I prefer my heroines to be strong and determined, not simpering.

It felt like Monk had a couple chapters left over (cut) from other books in the series and figured she would pull them together to make a new book out of them. The thread holding the story together was not complex (or believable) enough. (Though, to be fair, the concept behind the start of the story could have (should have) been enough as it was an interesting premise.)

I had already bought the next in the series so I will read it, but... if it is anything like this one, it just is not worth the time invested. ( )

During the months that Island has been recuperating in Ingolvinlinna, Finland after the events that occurred with the destruction of the Poseidon Dome, her father rarely visits. She is left in the care of Stiles who watches over her until her father comes to take her to Ecuador, but Island has stopped taking her meds, and she is starting to remember things. When she questions her father, she is restrained and hears him threaten a lobotomy, but as she is to leave, she is rescued by strangers named March and Dries who seem to know her, so she reluctantly puts her trust in them.

The last part of Butterfly in Amber reminds me so much of the James Bond movie, Moonraker. As over the top as that movie is, I think this book has it beat. Since this is the 4th book in the series, there is very little in the way of character development, but it is all about action, adventure and bringing character arcs to a close. The plot is part thriller, part romance, part adventure, and part scifi, but even with all of the elements of different genres, the story drags a bit in the middle and some part are a bit confusing. Overall, however, Butterfly in Amber is an exciting story that ends with a very satisfying conclusion. ( )