UNNECESSARILY DISTRESSING

This is the first book in the series that really pissed me off.

Spoiler

You don't just kill off Emily's girlfriend, fuck with Aria's career, emotionally traumatize Mike Montgomery, make Spencer's boyfriend evil and then murder him, and then frame the girls for murder AGAIN.

I don't know how I feel about being done with this. There's a hole in my life where the pretty little liars should be.

Dull, unimaginative, poorly written.

What Roquet lacks in world-building, her heroine Lana Harvey does an admirable job of making up for in spunk. She is a rule-bending reaper who finds herself at the crux of a poorly-explained plot that might end in the destruction of the afterlife. I like that all human deities are represented in the afterlife, and this is definitely a fun beach read.

This disappointing follow up felt even more like a rough draft than the first novel. Riddled with typos and bad decisions, Lana became so annoying that I very nearly threw my Kindle into the ocean. The most unbelievable thing about this book is that she has friends, let alone two men fighting over her whiny ass. The story didn't move along until the last pages, and I'm still in the dark about so many things. How does this world work?!?!

I finished this book, despite wanting to tear my hair out over the typos. "Duffle" instead of duffel, "vender" instead of vendor, and countless other errors make it apparent that there was no editor on this one.

My biggest problem with this series is that it feels like Roquet couldn't decide what kind of story to write. The first book feels like a girl-power fantasy with mild allusions to sex (albeit during a relationship that made no sense, because Lana hated the guy for no reason and then dated him for no reason), the second one felt like a whiny Harry-Potter-fifth-book "I don't want all this responsibility, why me, ooh let's cheat on the boyfriend I don't like and didn't want who I'm really mean to for no reason and date this guy who likes me even though I'm a spoiled brat who spends more time whining about schoolwork than advancing the plot" that includes a few uninspired sex scenes that feel out of place in the otherwise childish narrative, and continues into this third volume which is very violent and has more sex scenes but still failed to have anything resembling a plot.

Three books in and not one character has grown in any way, nothing of note has happened in Limbo, the time lines continue to make no sense, and the world building is terrible.

I made it this far because I hate not finishing books that I own, but this is where I draw the line.

I liked this book, but it feels overly simplistic. Like something I would give to a middle schooler to get them interested in science. It was an interesting and fast read.