A review by jenbsbooks
The First City by Joe Hart
3.0
3.5 stars again. Good series, I'm glad I read it. The second book in the series ended on a cliffhanger and this starts right there (with a small flashback forward before the action starts in). Like in the last book, where we had shifts in POV to Wen (she's now just a side character, no in her head here), now ... it's Lee. Remember him? Took off in book 1. He's a big part of book 3, with many chapters from his perspective until he and Zoey come together again, then if I remember correctly, it's mostly Zoey's POV (third person the whole time). Hate the present tense this entire time! Sometimes if a book is really well-written I'll forget about it ... I never forgot about it. It was slapping me in the face the entire trilogy.
So lots of mysteries unveiled here at the end. It "ends" ... then there is an epilogue which wraps things up, although not necessarily perfectly HEA.
I'll admit, I was not 100% on some of the side-women characters. Sometimes my brain is a little lazy, and I just think "the names that starts with C" and there were several "C" ladies (Chelsey, Chloe, etc) and some of the men I got a little "which one is he again?"
I will have fond memories of the trilogy ... I think. I'm not 100% it will really stay with me but will fade in with all the other similar series I've read.
So lots of mysteries unveiled here at the end. It "ends" ... then there is an epilogue which wraps things up, although not necessarily perfectly HEA.
I'll admit, I was not 100% on some of the side-women characters. Sometimes my brain is a little lazy, and I just think "the names that starts with C" and there were several "C" ladies (Chelsey, Chloe, etc) and some of the men I got a little "which one is he again?"
I will have fond memories of the trilogy ... I think. I'm not 100% it will really stay with me but will fade in with all the other similar series I've read.