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sexyvixenreader's review
4.0
Had a Blast reading this trilogy. Natalie E. Wrye keeps it fun and fast and believable. Lukas Griffin is the guy you love to hate but want to bed in every way imaginable. Elena is smart and full of spunk. Those two together had sparks flying.
justonemorechapter_or2's review
4.0
I definitely liked this last book more than the first two. Nothing against the first ones but they were so short that you didn't really know anything about the characters. It was hard to connect to them because of that. I felt like I needed to root for Elena & Lucas without really knowing why I was, other than the author was telling me to. There was plenty of mystery to keep me hooked, and that's probably why I was able to stick it out until this book where a few of my questions about who they were were answered. But to be honest I was still feeling like I didn't get a sense of anyone but Lucas' & the little look into his past. It was just hard for me to put the need to know about the mystery notes/chess game plot hook above not really liking the characters. So I would of liked to have more character development, there was a great mystery already going on I didn't need to be in the dark about the characters whose POV I was reading every other chapter. The ending was really well done, though felt rushed a little at times, but overall it was really suspenseful & it definitely had a twist of an ending that I didn't even guess so I loved that. It was a fun read though! Just hard for me to stay in the story at times.
si0bhan's review
4.0
The following is a review of all three parts, originally posted on Perfect Revenge…
Perfect Revenge is the second book in Natalie E. Wrye’s Revenge series, and it was a much more enjoyable read than the first book in the series. Made up of the three parts of Games & Diversions – Step by Step, Hour by Hour, and Minute by Minute – a lot more happened in this one to keep me interested.
While Riske and Revenge was a rounded up two-point-five-star rating, Perfect Revenge is a rounded up three-point-five-star rating. The amount of improvement, however, was enough to leave me considering going back and rounding down my rating of the first book. I didn’t, though, despite the thoughts that passed through my head.
Although Perfect Revenge could work as a standalone novel, I think it works best if you read the prior book first. You get to know the characters in advance, you get to understand certain elements, and it allows for a better understanding of the finer details. In other words, reading the prior book makes this a more powerful read.
Like with the first book, however, I wasn’t crazy about the characters in this story. I enjoyed them marginally more than I enjoyed the characters of book one, but I wasn’t crazy about them. What I did enjoy a lot more, though, was the revenge story.
There were some messy elements with the revenge story, but it was a lot more fleshed out than the story in book one. I was able to overlook some of the messy elements, as I was kept gripped throughout this one. There was more of a game to this one, it kept you guessing a lot more. It sucked me in more than I was expecting, and due to that I was able to round this one up.
Overall, Perfect Revenge was a much more enjoyable read than Riske and Revenge.
Perfect Revenge is the second book in Natalie E. Wrye’s Revenge series, and it was a much more enjoyable read than the first book in the series. Made up of the three parts of Games & Diversions – Step by Step, Hour by Hour, and Minute by Minute – a lot more happened in this one to keep me interested.
While Riske and Revenge was a rounded up two-point-five-star rating, Perfect Revenge is a rounded up three-point-five-star rating. The amount of improvement, however, was enough to leave me considering going back and rounding down my rating of the first book. I didn’t, though, despite the thoughts that passed through my head.
Although Perfect Revenge could work as a standalone novel, I think it works best if you read the prior book first. You get to know the characters in advance, you get to understand certain elements, and it allows for a better understanding of the finer details. In other words, reading the prior book makes this a more powerful read.
Like with the first book, however, I wasn’t crazy about the characters in this story. I enjoyed them marginally more than I enjoyed the characters of book one, but I wasn’t crazy about them. What I did enjoy a lot more, though, was the revenge story.
There were some messy elements with the revenge story, but it was a lot more fleshed out than the story in book one. I was able to overlook some of the messy elements, as I was kept gripped throughout this one. There was more of a game to this one, it kept you guessing a lot more. It sucked me in more than I was expecting, and due to that I was able to round this one up.
Overall, Perfect Revenge was a much more enjoyable read than Riske and Revenge.
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