Reflected in You

I had been totally swept away by Sylvia Day's first instalment of the Crossfire series, loved the story of Eva and Gideon and their torrid an passionate love affair. I couldn't wait for more in instalment 2.

At points this book really lived up to the first, it was sensual and romantic and wonderfully erotic but then in others it read like a teen romance novel. It was on, then off, then on, then off again. Eva and Gideon blew hot and cold and then lukewarm. It would sizzle for a chapter then the heat and pace would stall and fizzle for a chapter.

It is more a book to drive a plot but instead of doing so openly it is all about Gideon telling Eva to trust him and wait, which we do so until almost the very last page and then it stops abruptly, book over. Thanks for waiting Eva & reader but we are all done here it's time to wait for book 3.

Don't get me wrong I am still loving these more than Fifty Shades and find the romance and erotica much more real than James's constant references to Anastasia biting her lip as Christian thinks about sparking her. This is more sensual, less obvious and better for it. The middle book of Fifty Shades had more pace though and left you truly begging for the last instalment, with this I am a bit more ‘meh, I need more action next time'

Worrying thing is I've read reviews on book 3 and they appear to have dipped on book 2 so I'm hoping that I'm not going to be disappointed in it?

This book took me way too long to read because I was way the fuck over it by the time I got halfway through it. Eva was very annoying for a lot of this book. Yes I understand why she has the insecurities she does. Yes she is proactive about therapy. But this was too much for me. My heart didn't break for her this time. How she handled anything in this entire book seriously annoyed me. If Gideon so much as turn his head an inch to the left or right it was all I'M JEALOUS. I CAN NOT. LOOK AT ME. ARE YOU FUCKING HER. I CANT DO THIS. COME BACK. I LOVE YOU. YOU HAVE TO SHARE SHIT WITH ME. I CAN'T DO THIS. I LOVE YOU. IM NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU. I NEED YOU. OH LOOK THERE'S MY EX IMMA MAKE OUT WITH HIM IN FRONT OF YOU. There was many pages of this.
Gideon was the same as the previous book, really. Stopped going to therapy. Did sneaky shit and would just say TRUST ME. But then disappear. If I had any attraction to him it's gone now. It was a lot of the same. Just the same but also somehow worse.
Also....the sex wasn't even sexy. It was this weird, desperate, clingy fucking. No fire. No nothing but two people so desperate to prove to each other that one loves the other that whenever they are remotely alone they try the hardest to fuck harder than the time before. ANYONE WANT TO GUESS AS TO WHAT THEIR THERAPIST SUGGESTED THEY SHOULD NOT DO FOR A BIT?
The only thing that stopped me from giving this book 2 stars was the last few chapters. It seriously saved the book for me. Am I going to read the next one. Yes. Right now? Fuck no.

There are parts of this story are really off/weird/disturbing, but I was already invested and I hate not finishing a book/series. Overall, pretty good story line, but I won't be continuing the series.