Release Date: 30th August, 2011Publisher: Harlequin
Pages: 564pgs
The Story
His vampire girlfriend might have brought him back to life, but he's never felt more out of control. There's a darkness within him, something taking over . . . changing him. Worse, because he was meant to die, death now stalks him at every turn. Any day could be his last.
Once upon a time, the three souls trapped inside his head could have helped him. He could have protected himself. But as the darkness grows stronger, the souls grow weaker - just like his girlfriend. The more vampire Aden becomes, the more human Victoria becomes, until everything they know and love is threatened.
Life couldn't get any worse. Could it?
The Review
Look I'll be honest with you here . . . I didn't know what to expect from book three. I've been a fan of the Interwined series for quite some time now and I was hoping for yet another great installment to add onto my neverending best series book list. In describing this book to you, I would have say it was definitely darker compared to the first two books, and it a little bit more fast-paced and much more brutal in some places, which was great. And with the characters in constant danger and with all sorts of enemies trying to kill each other - even friends - while I still enjoyed the overall storyline of TWISTED however I was pretty (sighs) disappointed.
Aden remains awesome throughout the book (I really love his character unlike the others introduced in the book), but after finishing the final pages of TWISTED, I found myself with this tired feeling that soon overwhelmed me. Terrible I know. One of the major factors contributing to me being "tired" with this book is that there's so much drama going on and the cliffhanger readers are delivered with just didn't cut it for me. Another critical factor I didn't like was that there was very little romance (like love didn't even exist at all) and because of that crucial element . . . relationships crumbled with so little hope for the next book to continue. Then again, blame this all on the morbid cliffhanger and all the terrible things that happened along with it. Sighs. But never fear, since I started the series I plan to finish it, so I'll still give a crack at the fourth book - assuming there is one after this.
Overall my praise goes to Gena Showalter for being able to pull off writing two perspectives and with that alone requires a lot of a writer's skill. And she does it so well. While this maybe not my favourite book in the series, but TWISTED remains a great twisty-plot with plenty of drama to keep you entertained in all the right places and it will encourage you to read the fourth book - you know, what with that OMG-stupid cliffhanger that made me go GRRRRRRRRRRR! Yes, that one!
The Rating
3 1/2 / 5 stars 
LOL sorry for the OMG-stupid-GRRRRRRR worthy clifhanger! Disappointing to hear that the third book doesn't live up to your love of the first two. I have a copy of this, but since I haven't read the others yet, obviously it would be stupid to start this first. Even though this was so-so for you, you seem to enjoy the rest of the books so based on that, I might have to give them ago!
ReplyDeleteAnd then potentially grr with you over this haha. Fantastic review!
The series is good but this book was a little disappointing. Definitely still check them out!
DeleteWhat do you mean there's no love? That's crazy talk. I haven't started this series yet, though the covers all look really cool. Sad that this one was a disappointment for you but hooray for believable duel perspective books. They are hard to pull off indeed.
ReplyDeleteIt was a pity that I found this installment disappointing . . . but it was still a decent book. :)
DeleteI've seen the author's name a lot but I've never read anything by her, I might try this series!
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I definitely recommend this series.
DeleteI haven't started this series yet, though it's been on my wishlist a while. It's a shame this one was a little disappointing, but glad you enjoyed it overall! I definitely want to read the first book soon and catch up. Great review :).
ReplyDeleteDefinitely start this series!
DeleteOkay, I love Gena Showalter but I never read this series. I read her lords of the underworld series. I guess I will have to look into this series next. Great review.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read her LOTU series but I might read them soon.
DeleteI read the first book in the series, and it was amazing. I loved everything about it. Then I got to the second one, and I stopped reading it a few chapters in. There was too many things going on, and it was too much. Plus, I hardly remembered anything from book 1. I have always wanted to try this series again and start from book 1. Thanks for the review!
ReplyDeleteI recommend re-reading it! There is a lot of things going on . . . but you eventually get used to it.
Delete*bites nails* I'm so scared to read this book. I actually bought it the moment it was released and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since. My closest friend on Goodreads and I adore this series together but she read it first and her hate for it over some of the things that happened had me running scared. Hence why it's still sitting on my shelf, unread and collecting dust. And NOW your review has me even more anxious. I LOVE this series and Gena in general as she's one of my fave PNR authors but I'm still worried I'm gonna hate this book.
DeleteAwesome review Erin--you've left me with a lot to think about....
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Uhhh... I was thinking of picking up the series, but now I'm SCARED O___O
ReplyDeleteMight wait for the next book to come out? You sound SERIOUSLY dissapointed with this one--I know you'd given it 3.5, but it sounds like it was a bit frustrating?