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lassarina 's review for:
Bold Tricks
by Karina Halle
So I made it to the end of the trilogy, I guess.
And that about sums up my reaction to everything.
By the end of this trilogy, I actively disliked everyone involved. I get that to some extent the trilogy seems to be an exploration of the bad things people do for what might be good reasons, but I honestly had no reason to root for anybody here. Javier is an asshole, Camden has definitely crossed lines that I am actively uncomfortable with, and Ellie….I can't say I disagree with most of her choices, but I just don't care. She's not a person whose outcome I care about. If I had not bought the trilogy as a three-pack I don't think I would've bothered to go past the first book, and if I had not bothered to go past the first book, I would not be nearly so disparaging. Everyone went downhill, not in a way that made me cheer for them but in a way that made me ask why they should get nice things ever instead of paying the consequences of their actions. Book one tells us that Ellie wants to be a better person, and she even seems to….sort of try….multiple times, but the rest of the trilogy is her insisting "I want to be good" and then just not making choices that seem to reflect that supposed value. Meanwhile Javier is just infuriating (things I could have done without: the sexual assault!) and Camden….so what, he's just gonna violence his way through everything and that's fine?
Ugh. Basically.
And that about sums up my reaction to everything.
By the end of this trilogy, I actively disliked everyone involved. I get that to some extent the trilogy seems to be an exploration of the bad things people do for what might be good reasons, but I honestly had no reason to root for anybody here. Javier is an asshole, Camden has definitely crossed lines that I am actively uncomfortable with, and Ellie….I can't say I disagree with most of her choices, but I just don't care. She's not a person whose outcome I care about. If I had not bought the trilogy as a three-pack I don't think I would've bothered to go past the first book, and if I had not bothered to go past the first book, I would not be nearly so disparaging. Everyone went downhill, not in a way that made me cheer for them but in a way that made me ask why they should get nice things ever instead of paying the consequences of their actions. Book one tells us that Ellie wants to be a better person, and she even seems to….sort of try….multiple times, but the rest of the trilogy is her insisting "I want to be good" and then just not making choices that seem to reflect that supposed value. Meanwhile Javier is just infuriating (things I could have done without: the sexual assault!) and Camden….so what, he's just gonna violence his way through everything and that's fine?
Ugh. Basically.