A review by marryd
The Chosen by J.R. Ward

5.0

I found this quite disappointing. Authors are entitled to take their plots where they like/need but they need to take us with them. The majority of this story hinges on some totally weird behaviour by Quinn which, in terms of character development, is simply not explained. WHY did he lose the plot like that? Saying that he is still affected by his childhood etc is not enough. That is readers speculating because Ms Ward hasn't explained it to us. Right from the first moment he started to behave badly through completely losing it to the resolution - none of it makes sense. I spent the whole book waiting for something to happen that would explain it to me, only to finish with disappointment. At one point I wondered whether there was going to be an evil twin reveal because it was so out of sync with the previous story.

This was not the only area I found unbelievable. The relationships between Jane & Vishous, and Tohr and Amber, are very jarring and hard to keep up with.

I think there are also just too many storylines (balls) in the air at once. It makes moving the plot along without losing proper character development impossible in a single book. I loved this series but it is devolving into a paranormal soapie.