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A review by ea82625
Badlands by Jill Sorenson
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
You don’t need to read Aftershock to read this book, but I would recommend it. Honestly I was almost more interested in Owen and Penny in the first book than I was the main couple. And this book delivered. I normally don’t love 3rd person pov but it works in this series and you really get to understand the full picture of how everything pieces together.
Seeing Penny and Owen open up to each other was touching and realistic. From the first book, you could assume Owen experienced some real trauma in prison and he can finally start to heal with Penny. I also thought his relationship with Cruz was cute and the use of him throughout the book was good and not just an inconvenient side piece who didn’t act his age.
There was a decent amount of inner monologue in this book which I usually don’t love, but I think it worked here because it wasn’t repetitive.
The setting was in an area of the country I’d never heard of and after reading the descriptions I would look at pictures online and it was spot on and really created the overall mood/atmosphere of the suspense.
Seeing Penny and Owen open up to each other was touching and realistic. From the first book, you could assume Owen experienced some real trauma in prison and he can finally start to heal with Penny. I also thought his relationship with Cruz was cute and the use of him throughout the book was good and not just an inconvenient side piece who didn’t act his age.
There was a decent amount of inner monologue in this book which I usually don’t love, but I think it worked here because it wasn’t repetitive.
The setting was in an area of the country I’d never heard of and after reading the descriptions I would look at pictures online and it was spot on and really created the overall mood/atmosphere of the suspense.