chriswaechter's review
5.0
Wow, just Wow!
I just love this series! I was a long wait between book 3 and book 4... not really long in the scheme of things but ugh, a wait just the same. Great story and characters continue. Well done Bella!
I just love this series! I was a long wait between book 3 and book 4... not really long in the scheme of things but ugh, a wait just the same. Great story and characters continue. Well done Bella!
meganamaral's review
3.0
Honestly, out of all the books, this one and the first one tie for my favorites in the series. After all the back and forth and the chasing in book 3, I am actually happy that we finally are getting some answers in this book! Plus, I am pumped that I was right in my last review; with the introduction of Henry coming back into Robin's life, it made Robin and Jace think about their relationship and finally have a conversation. As the reader, we already knew how Robin felt about Jace without telling him, but I kind of understood why Jace would feel a little insecure. Henry came back in Robin's life as her "old friend" and Henry just could not stop flirting with her. I'm not going to lie, I enjoyed it because I've been dying for Robin and Jace to talk about something, especially how Robin seemed to be back and forth in the first 3 books. But after 3.25 books, we finally got a kiss and many more kisses throughout this book. It honestly made me feel bad for Henry, but it seemed that after they arrived at Litle John's home base, we just don't hear from him a lot. I am hoping that we get to see more Robin, Henry, and Jace teamwork in book 5, going through the files Nelson extracted from their mission to find out where Hope is and form a plan to go and save her.
My hopes for the next book? Well besides more Jace and Henry team-building and probably co-parenting in the future (almost like a Michael and Raphael situation from Jane the Virgin), I hope to finally find out who RObin's parents are and her trying to form a plan to save Hope. I'm hoping that they save her before the big finale and it isn't just some random ending note for the series.
And the reason why I couldn't give this book over a 3.5 star rating is that I felt like nothing really happened in this book. Basically, if I could summarize this book in a few lines it would be, the team found Zion at the convent that Rhea was hiding and he took them to Nathan and Corona and Little John's home base. They both welcomed their team and told them that Operation Hood was one of many Little John feeder groups waiting to see if they had the potential to join the big guys in their missions and that every mission that they encountered in books 1 and 2 were actually orchestrated by Little John. Nathan and Corona give the absolute minimum of information to Robin's team which frustrates everyone. Jace confronts Robin with his feelings, they kiss and then decide to break into Little John to find more information. They get caught by Nathan and Corona and they tell them a little more information, but enough to get Robin on board to go on a huge mission to break into one of the governments holding buildings to bug their main computer to copy all government archives. After a lot of hiccups and them killing all the guards, they escape and Nelson copied a set of archives for her and Robin to find out where their children are at. PLUS, the dialogue was super cringy. People do not talk like how Zion or Nathan talked to Robin.
My theories for the next book and/or series? There was this WEIRD and not subtle story of how Nathan used to be in rich high class and fell in love with Corona who was poor and they formed little John because the class system wasn't fair and that they had a daughter. Nothing else was said about their daughter, but we assume that she was taken away by the government. But we have no idea. It was never brought up again. My theory? I think that Robin is Nathan and Corona's daughter. There is something about the writing that Nathan and Corona always seem to stare at Robin or talk to her or compliment her a little more or longer than anyone else in her party. I also think that Robin's daughter Hope has been adopted by her old foster parents just because it would make it harder for her to kidnap her as well as it would be very emotional for her to go back to her old home and life. ALSO, because in book one Robin mentioned that she would hope that her foster parents would adopt her daughter when she gave birth because they always talked about wanting to adopt another baby and how it would be perfect. It would be a nice little tie in.
My hopes for the next book? Well besides more Jace and Henry team-building and probably co-parenting in the future (almost like a Michael and Raphael situation from Jane the Virgin), I hope to finally find out who RObin's parents are and her trying to form a plan to save Hope. I'm hoping that they save her before the big finale and it isn't just some random ending note for the series.
And the reason why I couldn't give this book over a 3.5 star rating is that I felt like nothing really happened in this book. Basically, if I could summarize this book in a few lines it would be, the team found Zion at the convent that Rhea was hiding and he took them to Nathan and Corona and Little John's home base. They both welcomed their team and told them that Operation Hood was one of many Little John feeder groups waiting to see if they had the potential to join the big guys in their missions and that every mission that they encountered in books 1 and 2 were actually orchestrated by Little John. Nathan and Corona give the absolute minimum of information to Robin's team which frustrates everyone. Jace confronts Robin with his feelings, they kiss and then decide to break into Little John to find more information. They get caught by Nathan and Corona and they tell them a little more information, but enough to get Robin on board to go on a huge mission to break into one of the governments holding buildings to bug their main computer to copy all government archives. After a lot of hiccups and them killing all the guards, they escape and Nelson copied a set of archives for her and Robin to find out where their children are at. PLUS, the dialogue was super cringy. People do not talk like how Zion or Nathan talked to Robin.
My theories for the next book and/or series? There was this WEIRD and not subtle story of how Nathan used to be in rich high class and fell in love with Corona who was poor and they formed little John because the class system wasn't fair and that they had a daughter. Nothing else was said about their daughter, but we assume that she was taken away by the government. But we have no idea. It was never brought up again. My theory? I think that Robin is Nathan and Corona's daughter. There is something about the writing that Nathan and Corona always seem to stare at Robin or talk to her or compliment her a little more or longer than anyone else in her party. I also think that Robin's daughter Hope has been adopted by her old foster parents just because it would make it harder for her to kidnap her as well as it would be very emotional for her to go back to her old home and life. ALSO, because in book one Robin mentioned that she would hope that her foster parents would adopt her daughter when she gave birth because they always talked about wanting to adopt another baby and how it would be perfect. It would be a nice little tie in.
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