By Wendy Higgins
Sweet Evil Summary from Goodreads
Embrace the Forbidden
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?
This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.
Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.
Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?
My Review:
For this review, I will go through each book individually and also give my thoughts on the series as a whole.
The entire series as a whole was pretty good and fairly enjoyable. It is a paranormal romance, so there is a lot of angst and it can be kind of cheesy sometimes, but if that is what you're looking for, then it is an enjoyable read.
The main characters in this series weren't that outstanding, but they were okay. The main character, Anna, and her love interest, Kaidan, were both kind of stereotypical. Anna was the plain, mousy, good girl who thought there was nothing special about her until she one day learns of her heritage. Despite this, I did like Anna and did like seeing her progression through the series, because she definitely got stronger, and she was likable enough most of the time, but I didn't love her and there was nothing that made her feel super special or really stand out to me.
Kaidan was also the stereotypical bad boy drummer, with a British accent, dark hair and really blue eyes. And he's the Son of Lust, which means he has stronger feelings of lust than most normal teenagers. Yeah. That makes things interesting for the story. I still liked Kaidan, even though he was kind of a jerk to Anna sometimes, but he also had some good character progression through the series.
Sweet Evil is probably my favorite of the series. Sweet Evil is very heavy on the romance and the tension between the main character and her love interest, which I did enjoy and made the book pretty interesting. Sweet Evil is probably the most romance based of the series and I think it has the best plot of the series because it doesn't try to take on too much at once. I found the writing easy to read and I did read this pretty quickly, so that was a plus. I gave Sweet Evil 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Sweet Peril is my least favorite of the series. I felt like this book fell into the category of being a middle, filler book. My main problem with this book is that it felt like not a lot happened even though almost two years passed in the book. There were a lot of jumps in time and I felt like there wasn't enough progression of plot to support all of the jumps in time. I did enjoy the romance in this book, though, and I still thought that was pretty well done. Like the first book, I flew through this and still enjoyed it even though there were a few problems. I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars.
Sweet Reckoning is one that I had a lot of mixed feelings about. I really liked the ending and I thought it was satisfying and wrapped up the story nicely with no loose ends. In the middle, though, I just got stuck. Maybe it was because I had just read Shadow and Bone and I was in a bit of a reading slump or maybe I really just didn't like it, I don't know, either way, I just stopped reading it. I felt like the story had been dragged out a little bit too much and I kind of just wanted to reach the climactic scene that we had been waiting for. Once I started to read it again, I did enjoy it and I did get a little emotional at the end. I gave this book 4.25 out of 5 stars.
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