So I'm left with pretty much the same feeling as I was after finishing The Forest of Hands and Teeth, which is I really only started throughly enjoying this book at the very end. I spent the first 75% of The Dead Tossed Waves only being slightly interested in it. I see a common theme now in this series, things don't really start to pick up pace until the last one hundred pages or so. It's always that last third of the book that has me giving these books even 3 stars. If it weren't for the better endings, I assure you they would only be 2 star books in my opinion.

Gabry was maybe slightly more like able than Mary. I have to say that in both the books I found the love triangles to be pretty annoying. The relationship between Gabry and Elias seemed to come out of nowhere. Gabry was so into Catcher, but then meets Elias and has intsta feelings for him? I didn't get that. Then she spends pretty much the entirety of the book trying to ignore her feelings for Elias, but also constantly wanting him to touch or kiss her. All the while she's still trying to make moves on Catcher. Bad form Gabry, bad form indeed.

I also found it ridiculous that once Gabry finally makes any kind of decision, chaos then tears everything apart. Seriously....everytime? That seems excessive to me. I'm really questioning at this point weather to give the next book a chance or not. I feel like there is potential for book 3 to be better, but I also said the same thing about each Twilight movie I ever watched. And believe me, I was throughly disappointed each time :/ I will probably read it, and I guess I will just try to do so without any prejudice or high expectations.