By Tqwana B.
Eva isn’t that much of a Mary Sue heroine… Despite how this review makes it seem, I actually did like this series. What I read of it anyway. I stopped after the original trilogy.
Synopsis:
Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I’d never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily…
Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other’s most private wounds…and desires. The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn’t tear us apart…
This review was originally posted on Goodreads.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 stars – I’d give it 4 for the writing (Most of it anyway. The Gideon is so perfect repetition made me want to gag) and characters with real issues, not just contrived “I’m a bit clumsy and I don’t think I’m pretty for no real reason” sort of issues. You know who I’m talking about. It doesn’t get 4 b/c I feel like you can pop out Eva and Gideon and pop in 2 other characters that shall remain nameless and you have almost the same book, though Ms. Day is a far more skilled author. I know romance and erotica are formulaic in nature, but c’mon. Some of the arguments b/t E and G moved so swiftly, got resolved without being resolved that I was left thinking, “ok, what just happened?” And that abrupt out-of-nowhere ending kinda pissed me off. I get that it’s part of a series, but isn’t there an art to the cliffhanger? Shouldn’t you feel, at the moment, a partial completion. Hey, part one reached it’s resolution, but there’s still more to the story. Sorry, but ellipses on a nothing sentence, right after a huge turning point doesn’t do it for me. Here’s hoping part 2 is an improvement.
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This series is interesting to me because after reading all the books – don’t ask me why, it just happened – I still couldn’t tell you what Eva looks like. Oh wait, I lied. She has blonde hair. I don’t recall reading a more vapid, faceless woman in my recent reading history than Eva. She made my entire reading experience so bizarre because hot damn, I know every detail of Gideon. Just my two cents.
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Was she blonde? I thought she was half Latinx? I don’t remember at all. But that just proves your point. To be fair, she can’t possibly be more vapid than Bella or Anastacia. Close, though.
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That’s funny because the fact she’s half Latinx did NOT stick in my head AT all.
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That’s about all I remember about her.
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