ENTICE by Jessica Shirvingtion

Entice by Jessica Shirvington
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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I have to say I was greatly disappointed by this installment, since I so loved the first book in the series. I don't want to say I didn't like it because I do like these characters, I just didn't like it a lot. It was just okay.

I found Violet whinny and fatiguing. I just wanted her to get a backbone and say what she wanted and what she needed. It was like everything she was feeling had to be a secret and I'm not sure as to why. If she would tell them what Phoenix was doing to her or how she was feeling about Lincoln, maybe a lot of her anxiety would go away. There's something to be said for being a straight shooter and I felt like Violet was that in the first book. When she was pissed she told Lincoln and/or Phoenix how she was feeling. She even asked Phoenix to help her with her emotions. She was straight about how she felt and what she wanted, no matter how wrong or right it was.

I felt like Lincoln was more of a teenager than a man. His emotional response to seeing Violet kiss Spence was dumb to me. Dropping his glass and running out. Then when he realizes she was manipulated by Phoenix, he can barely keep his hands off of her. And there was no real resolution to that either. I'm sure it will come later, but it's dragging for me. I need to know what their choices are and if they will be like Rudyard and Nyla were.

Why no one could figure out that Magda was the traitor in Violet's dreams is beyond me. It seems Violet paid very little attention to what her dreams were telling her. She didn't even go to Griffen or Linc to talk them out to get clarity. There were just a lot of missed opportunities to me. And why did they let Magda go? She knows too much about them and about their plans. Just dumb to me.

Also Jude's last minute arrival into the story was kinda weird to me as well. It was just strange to me. He was sort of dropped in in my opinion.

The action was also lacking compared to the first book in my opinion. I just liked the first book so much better.

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