Think about what you love about a great soap opera, daytime
or nighttime variety. Well, whatever you came up with, this book has in spades:
Lies! Revenge! Secrets! Love! Sex! Betrayal! Mystery! MURDER! You have your good guys and your bad guys.
You have your good girls and your oh so bad girls. This is soapy, campy, fun at its best. I’ve never seen the television show Revenge, but I’d like to think it’s a
lot like this book series.
The second installment picks up right where we left off in
the last book. It covers about a week in
the drama-filled lives of a cast of over-privileged teens. It is also once again told from alternating
point of views between the two sisters, Alice and Charlie. While once again, Alice is the star of the
show, Charlie’s role continues to be a bit confusing. I don’t know how her P.O.V. fits into the
overall arc and mystery of the books, but her scenes are always good for some
juicy drama. As in the first book each
character is pretty fleshed out, even the secondary characters. You may not like them, but you kind of know
them.
The pacing of this book is my favorite kind: nice and
quick. There is nothing dragging this
book down. The plot flows and the
wording is quick, making it easy to speed right through it. There is no time for stopping and
contemplating the deeper meaning behind the word choices, because there really
doesn’t appear to be any deeper meaning.
Nobody is having an existential crisis here. The reader certainly won’t have one
either.
I enjoyed how the overall plot moved forward in this
installment in the series. The reader
gets some questions answered, and new questions are asked. The characters all seem to grow a little. Well,
as much as their natural shallowness allows them to. The overarching mystery also seems much
closer to being solved. Is the story a
bit predictable? Well, yes. But that’s o.k. Ultimately, this is a book and not a TV show
that relies on a major cliffhanger and needs to bring up something out of
nowhere to keep the viewer interested.
There is a finite end to this series (I hope). So while I think I know what is going to happen
at the end of the series, I’m o.k. with that.
I am just enjoying the ride.
This book is what it is. It will not change your life. It will not make you think. But it will provide enjoyment. It’s ultimately the perfect summer read: fun,
quick, and entertaining.
3.5/5 footballs
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