I don’t think I’ve ever been this appalled by a book before. I am especially astound that the author wrote this, permanently changing my view of her. And trust me, not in any good way.
I don’t think I can write this without giving away spoilers, so skip to the next paragraph if you don’t wish anything spoiled. Because, I can’t believe the Siobhan Davis tried to paint such a compassionate and victimized picture of someone forcing himself on another. Sure, he didn’t succeed, but to me that changes nothing. The fact is that he still tried to force himself on her and he would definitely gone through with it hadn’t she stopped him. I am so shocked and disgusted over how it was handled in the story. Instead of being angry or fearful of him Sadie forgives him on the spot staying friends, comforting him and trusting him completely. She kept explaining that there was good in him, he was confused, in a bad place, they had history, blah blah blah. The author basically uses every excuse she could think of to keep him as “the good guy” and there were no consequences to his actions. Trust me, if you have the capacity to force yourself on someone against their will (actually if you even have the mindset of thinking of doing it) then you are a sick despicable human being (or in this case alien) and as far from a good guy as you can get. It is straight up inexcusable, both his character and every other character who didn’t react or treat him any differently after that. The fact that the author excuses such a horrifying incident and character is the most inexcusable of all and really makes me question her moral compass. No wonder she decided to write about aliens without such things.
I have so many other issues with this book that I don’t even know where to start. I can easily say that this was the worst book in the series, mainly thinking of what I wrote above, and the conclusion was so unsatisfying for me. To not make this review into its own book I will try to keep it short.
The Haydn conclusion:
Am I the only one finding it strange that Kesla never before been mentioned by Haydn? Before this book he didn’t even seem to think about her from what I could tell and yet they are in love from out of nowhere? It just made it very obvious that the author just added her to resolve the whole unsatisfying Sadie-Haydn drama (seriously, we still haven’t gotten an actual real apology or explanation from Haydn to his crappy behavior). The very unsubtle motive to adding Kesla in the story was just sloppy.
The time travel complication:
“If Griselda has access to time travel again, then your argument is a moot point. She can easily send someone into the past to kill me.” Then why the hell didn’t she just do this in the first place?! Complicating things by bringing Sadie into it just seems like a huge plot-hole.
King Coryn:
I find it very unrealistic to love someone so much that you don’t know and on top of it all has killed, started a war and hurt you. Sure Dante was his son, but that doesn’t change the fact that he didn’t know him. His unconditional love is unrealistic to have for a stranger of a son.
Anticlimactic endings to Dante and Griselda:
For having hyped up their evil plans and cleverness their conclusion was both rushed and underwhelming. Though I’m not really surprised to be honest. The author had overdone it with subplot after subplot in previous books that there was no room to conclude and resolve everything nicely in one book.
The special snowflake syndrome:
Sadie was special alright, but in all the wrong ways. What rubbed me the wrong way the most was her ability to forgive anyone for precisely anything. No argument, no questions asked. I could tell that that was supposed to be a good quality in her, but I can’t see how. She pretty much gave everyone permission to treat her like crap, because at the end of the day they knew she’d forgive you like it never happened. Overall, I kind of felt that she was too into herself pointing out that she was special, making everything about her and involving herself in other people’s businesses.
Speeches in every crevice:
A cheesy speech is expected in a romance book at some point. Doesn’t mean you have to overdo it. Have it in the bigger moments of the story. Not in every chapter. Don’t even get me started on the overdone lovely-dovy romance speeches and dialogues. Tone it down please. At some point it just becomes unrealistic and cringy.
Chip removal:
The ship behind Sadie’s ear that she can be controlled and tracked by. What has it still not been removed?
Unhealthy relationship:
“Even twenty-four seconds is too long. And it’s not pathetic to want to spend every conceivable second with the person you love most in the universe.” No, just extremely unhealthy. It gives out a very bad message and it feels more like desperation and obsession rather than love.
Speaking mind:
“I used to be a lot like that. It was hard for me to show my feelings, and after years of biting my tongue, it wasn’t easy to speak my mind either.” This has never been apparent in the books. As a matter of fact I always got the feeling that she liked talking about herself for the attention it gave.
Awkward images:
The author finds really strange ways in serious situations to paint awkward pictures, like Sadie shooting lasers out of her eyes like a freaking cartoon, kissing after having just puked, skin wobbling in strong wind and villains doing cliche things like laughing evilly.
Villain101:
A smart villain never reveals names or their plans. That is only done in kids cartoons. Almost every villain in this story needs a copy of the villain rule book.
Overly patriotic:
Every other country, government and culture is conveniently left out. I’m sorry, but isn’t The Amaretti after Earth and not just America? It makes no sense that this only happens in the US and nothing and no one else is mentioned.
Unrealistic reaction to grief:
Apparently aliens and hybrids can schedule grief at a better time? That is just not how it works and it takes the emotional investment out for the reader if grief isn’t dealt with properly.
One thing that I must compliment the story on is that not every character was unrealistically over the moon in love in their relationship since one couple went separate ways. This was kind of forgotten in the end though, since I got the feeling that the author tried to pair every character up with someone just to get a happily ever after for everyone. That just felt so forced, rushed and unnatural to me. Especially for one couple where it felt to me that the guy settled for second best. After this I don’t think I will be reading anything else from this author.
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