High Voltage

3 down-with-the-train-wreck-stars.

It is difficult for me to rate this book. On my emotional side, I enjoyed it, but on my rational side, there are still things missing.

Let's start with giving voice to my emotional side. I am surprised that I found myself enjoying being in Dani's head. I have never been a fan of her, but in this book, she has grown up and become more mature. That made me easier to connect with her. It was also nice to have some of the points of view from her to have a comprehensive vision of the overall story and world. I even enjoyed her moments with Shazam (cutie!). And I guess that's all from my emotional side.

Onto my rational side... Let's start with the plot. Basically, nothing solid happens in this volume. Chapter 26 is worth reading to get an overview of the Fae's timeline, told by Christian. The book is more focused on what is happening to Dani. Even though my emotional side enjoyed it, it doesn't seem to naturally fit Dani, if not for forcefully giving her a HEA with Ryodan and Shazam.
Even if I like Ryodan and I am happy that he gets his HEA, I don't feel the chemistry between him and Dani.

When I said that something is missing, I am referring to the what recently happened with Dani/Jada. We know that Dani had a bad and difficult and we got here some flashbacks with her mother, too. However, we do not get any (or very little) information of what happened to her in the Silvers and her coming back as Jada nor her transformation back to Dani. I also think that her relationship with Ryodan was not well-built enough and did not really grow over time. I do not see those characters slowly falling in love with each other as Mac and Barrons did.

Alright. I really wanted to LOVE this book. I absolutely adored most of the Fever books so far, and I was so happy this was going to be from Dani's POV. But... It just... didnt do as much for me as I hoped. Teeny spoilers ahead.

There was so much time spent in Dani's head I kind of tried to skim through those chapters. When did Dani/Jada become an angsty tween worried about why her “man” wasnt calling her. She went back and forth between the angst and the “Im sexy and strong and amazing.” I wanted more story here though. I liked what KMM did to reignite that, but we needed more about the conflict, and less about the love story. I think we all had a feeling that Ryodan and Dani were going to be “together”, but I was hoping it would be in the background like Barrons and Mac in most of the Fever books.

And when Ryodan “returns” hes such a... a... I dont even know how to put it. All he wants is recognition and reciprocation from Dani. What happened to the strong willed, take no shit characters from the previous books?? The Shazam bit was kind of interesting, but I dont think it made a lot of sense. Speaking of not making sense, SpoilerDani give Ryodan a reciprocal tattoo, and I didnt understand how that would work. Right?

Well, hopefully some of the next books will have some more about the nine!! Yes, there is a teeny bit of background on them. ::joy::