~✡~Dαni(ela) ♥ ♂♂ love & semi-colons~✡~'s Reviews > Forbidden Obsession

The flashbacks to Samuel's childhood/young adulthood were damn sad.

To add depth to Rudy's character, the author had Rudy lose his youngest sister in an auto accident. This seemed gratuitous at best. Rudy blamed himself for her death supposedly, but we don't see/feel his grief; even when he's reunited with his family toward the end, the sister is never mentioned.

The beginning was sweet with a couple humorous moments. Samuel was just so grumpy, and Rudy was every hopeful.

The second half of the story was convoluted, with Samuel almost dying and Rudy coming to his rescue more than once.

I noticed that Lee Colgin has a bad habit of introducing complicated plots only to leave them completely unresolved once the MCs beat the antagonist.

In the first book of this series, humans find out about supernaturals and bomb a supernatural convention. Sinclair is kidnapped. We never find out who set the bomb and why. Was it the government? A rogue faction? What did the kidnappers hope to achieve and how did they organize themselves so quickly? Sinclair suggested the ransom, not the kidnappers, so what was the point besides Mitchel and Sinclair's family coming to the rescue?

In the second book, Samuel got intel that the villain wasn't working alone and that the villain's father, as the mastermind, had a group of humans and vampires ready to murder Ben. The villain says that she's working alone, so apparently there is no group and Samuel was wrong? What about the vampire who was burned - did the villain manage to kill him or not? It's hinted at that money was the motive, but this didn't add up, because the villain had no say as to whom the next "trial subject" would be.

In this final book, Samuel's abuser comes for him and is working with another evil vampire who happens to be a scientist. There's a whole group of rogue vampires, including one who sits on the council, but nothing is ever explained. What was the purpose of the group working together? Was it just about killing Samuel or was it about manufacturing the poison bullets? If the latter, WHY? And how/why was the council member involved? Again, we get NOTHING. The badies get their comeuppance, and all is good.

I found this infuriating. If you're going to create complex plots, you need to see them through. A romance doesn't need a mystery/suspense/danger component, but if that's your thing, do it justice. It's like mixing a cake and not baking it.

That's my rant of the day, folks. Carry on.