Rating: ★★★ + .5 | 354 Pages | Signet | Dystopian | 6/28/2016
Time to dive back into Elle Kennedy’s post apocalyptic America where citizens live in heavily regulated cities while the rest are are outlaws, surviving as free people in the nuclear wasteland.
In this sequel a group of outlaws introduced in the first book are headed out to Foxworth, a fortified outlaw town, to train the townspeople how to fight. Included in this group are Jamie and Lennox, childhood friends who’ve survived every hardship life has thrown at them as a team. But when Lennox and Jamie start sleeping together it gets complicated.
I could go either way on Jamie and Lennox’s relationship, they had some great moments but never felt as fully fleshed as the characters in book one did. That said, I liked how Kennedy used them to expand the world. We learn more about what it’s like to be an outlaw child and how hard it is to keep a family together.
Kennedy has also kicked up the spice level in this book, because everyone is sleeping with everyone, everywhere all the time. Although, the more I read this series the more I have to handwave that they live in a nuclear wasteland where food and fuel are scarce but for some reason there are condoms everywhere and no one has an STI or unwanted pregnancy.
Elle Kennedy delivers another dystopian scorcher with a complicated friends to lovers scenario and some intense action scenes.
SIDENOTES
There are some character deaths I did not see coming because I legit though they’d be in future books. This tweet was literally me:
When you suspect your favorite character in a series is gonna die, and then said character proceeds to die pic.twitter.com/K2N1zzDayt
— Tara Sim (@EachStarAWorld) April 25, 2017