A review by amywarnes
Seize the Castle by Elizabeth Dear

4.5

I enjoyed this book a lot, for very similar reasons to the first (good plot, well developed characters and relationships) but it wasn't quite as good as the first, in my opinion. 

I mentioned in my review of the first book how I'm not a fan of conveniently solving problems off page by just calling up a tech guy, and unfortunately that became even more common in this book. It started to feel like Jolie wasn't actually doing much, all of her problem solving was just calling someone else to do all of the work in the background? I would have liked to see her more involved in that process, even if we got to see her creating the plans while someone else actions them. Instead we repeatedly got a fade out scene of her calling someone and vaguely mentioning "the plan", cut to the scene of some character finding out their life has been ruined via their phone or something.

Also a more minor issue but the sex scenes felt very rushed. They often had a good build up but then when they got to the action the scene would be done in a sentence or two.

Besides these things, I still really enjoyed the story and relationship development and liked the book overall.