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heatherly's review
1.0
I like Tijan books; I've read over half a dozen, including the first book in this series. The author writes new adult/young adult in the vein of mafioso dramas and it's hilarious and ridiculous and damn entertaining. This is the first Tijan book I didn't like. I was prepared for the meandering plot-line and slew of extraneous characters, and usually if I don't like a book, I fume a bit and then move onto something else. What prompted me to write a review of this one, however, was the author's note at the end wherein she proclaims long and loud about her "vision." She explains that there was indeed foreshadowing, and this is always how the book was going to go. In my mind, if you really have vision, not to mention adequate forethought and foreshadowing, you wouldn't need to declare that it was there all along and those who criticize the lack of it just didn't see it or "get" it. From her author's note, I gather she's already received a healthy dose of criticism for this exact problem. In reality, this book is just lacking. It lacks causality, consistency, and most certainly, cogency. Simply, if you have to defend the mere existence of your "vision", you obviously did a poor job of delivering it. Tacking an author's note on the end will not suffice for what the book never had from the beginning: vision.
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