Tara's Reviews > Crave

** spoiler alert ** 3.5 stars- (rounded up to 4) This review is Spoilery without outright spoilers.

I'm going to bullet point this review because, I just can't seem to write a coherent sentence.

~I love Dog. I wish we saw him more.

~I continue to like Jim, but I feel like he's not as morally ambiguous as everyone thought, but Ward also acknowledged that through the character of Devina so I can live with it. Since this was his first real mission, I wish it would have been more focused on the soul they were saving and Jim & Devina. The romance storyline made me feel cheated. Like there was a compromise A need to tell the story about Matthias, but an obligation to provide a love story. I would have been ok without it.

~I'm not sold on all the sexual abuse in this story. Implied or otherwise. I feel like it's a cheaters way to make Devina bad, when she has the potential to be bad without it. And it's a cheap way to make us feel for the ones who experience it. And the threat of it continually throughout (not just by Devina) just seemed like too much.

~I like Adrian. I feel like we have now seen his two extremes and I am waiting for his middle ground. I am curious about the full extent of his friendship with Eddie. And I am very curious about Eddie's POV. If we are going to spend so much time with these guys, I would like to get to know them as well.

~My curiosity is piqued about Nigel & Colin (page 71)- Do the two live together? Is it being implied they are in a relationship? And what kind of physical relationship is that? And what about Colin is different? I am starting to have some questions about these angels.

~I think it's interesting that Devina is seeing a psychiatrist. I think the idea of the ultimate evil have a case of OCD is interesting. I want to wait to see how it all plays out to see what i think about it. Or if was just there to be a funny thing about the character. Cause right now I'm like, "you have no conscious, yet you are concerned because you are hoarding things?" Like I said I'm will to see how it goes.

~Isaac... I thought we were in for an interesting outcome. I thought that maybe Isaac was going to joining the war which would lend itself to my theory that with every assignment, Jim collects the help of someone else. With Vin having the psychic ability and then Isaac could be a warrior... it has potential to be the way they all band together in the end to take on Devina because she tries to pull some major cheat... But I got off topic- Isaac I think starts off interesting and then just falls flat. And I know ultimately the story wasn't supposed to be about his redemption but...

~Matthais- I know that we were supposed to be shocked/surprised like JIm that the soul he was supposed to save was his, but since it was, I wish we had spent some more time with him. The way it is I feel like he was a curveball, for the sake of being a curveball. Because we spent SO MUCH time with Grier & Isaac- I saw that ending about 300 pages before it happened- if it wasn't going to really be their story, I would have like less of them.

~Grier-who I keep wanting to call Pam, as in Pam Grier, I only mention it because I just realized I had done it in the previous paragraph and had to change them all- was not a very interesting character either. She was a very good lawyer and clearly headstrong, with a softer side reserved for what seem to be lost causes and stray puppies. She sees the ghost of her brother as well. I think she had a lot going on and I feel like we don't really understand why she comes to terms with things so quickly.

~ I think the ghost was an interesting concept, but again, I'm not really sure what purpose it solved. Besides telling her to trust Isaac, he didn't give us new information. Or information we couldn't have gotten elsewhere or did get elsewhere.

~I am really curious about Jim and Sissy. I want to know where this is all heading. I think the way he talks about her sometimes sounds like he is in love with her and sometimes sounds like he is a father figure to her.

~I'm hoping this doesn't just become a good guys win/bad guys win every other book type of thing. And I hope this series is finite. I cringe at the idea of dragging it out. I think with an end in sight, the books could be more precise.

~There were a lot of characters in this book and I felt like in an attempt to service them all, some of them just got lost in the shuffle.

~I know it doesn't sound like it, but I did enjoy this book. I think I liked Covet better as a whole but I like the potential I see in this continuing story in this book.