If you like
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James, The Blackstone Affair
series by Raine Miller, and Bonds of Trust by Lynda Aicher then
you like this series!!!!
Basic Summary:
The third book in the Inside Out series lands Chris and Sara in Paris,
France. Sara still has problems with
control and trust, all the while having to make a quick decision to get on a
plane to France to be with Chris or stay in San Francisco and go back to her
old life. After a horrible night that
almost ended in Sara’s death, and revealed of what really happened to Rebecca,
Sara decided to go all in with Chris.
While in Paris, Chris struggles with his demons while Sarah struggles to
find her lost friend Ella and learn how to assimilate to Parisian life and
Chris’ past.
What I Love About This Book: I
loved the storyline throughout this series, I love how it wasn’t only a love
story but several mysteries all wrapped into one. You not only read through Sara’s present
life, but Rebecca’s checkered past through her lost journals. This series from the very beginning has set
itself apart from the Fifty Shades trilogy by encompassing a mysterious journal
belonging to woman Sara has never met, and Sara’s best friend Elle running off,
getting married and is never heard from again.
Sara at a certain point almost has to choose between Mark and Chris in
book two, all the while trying to figure out who the mysterious Dom is in
Rebecca’s personal journals about her journey through the dark world of
BDSM.
Chris
Merit is the typical hero in this series, very rich, very hot, and very
haunted. The sex scenes throughout the
book are good balance between Dom/sub relationships and love making as
equals. Rebecca’s story is tragic, and
when you find her fate at the end book two you feel that at least one storyline
is over, but that is untrue. Throughout
the chapters in this book you read about Rebecca’s last few days, how she came
back to be with the love of her life and the circumstances surround her
mystery. All the while more questions are created about
Sara’s best friend Ella and I am still dying to find out what has happened to
her. The epilogue gives you a sneak
preview of what I am assuming will either be a spin off series of this which
would be from Ella’s point of view (just a guess) or another book is set to
come out in the series.
The details in this book are
magnificent, you really get a sense of what Paris is like, and the feeling of
fish out of water is permeated throughout each page of this book so well. Sara is lost in a city where very little
people speak English and she doesn’t know who she can trust. All the while searching for her missing
friend Ella, and evading the police as they question her about a murder in the
States. This book was a real page turner and I was racing to the end because I
needed answers!!!
Cons: As much as I like this
series, there were certain points where I kind of lost interest and the
constant back and forth with Sara saying over and over again I’m not leaving
Chris was tiresome after a while. Also
on my kindle it states that this is a trilogy, this being the third book means
it is the last, but the ending had more questions than answers. A lot of issues were never really wrapped up
or addressed at all. I’m praying there
is another book to this series and it isn’t just a trilogy because if this is
the last installment then that was just a horrible way to end a book a part
from the epilogue. The epilogue suggests
that there could be a spin off series dealing with Sara’s friend Ella and that
seems very exciting because obviously there is some dark stuff going on with
her.
Also I felt like the huge dark
secret that Chris was keeping wasn’t that big of a deep dark secret and how it
was all revealed was not the climax of the book for me. You spend so much time throughout this series
trying to figure out this dark side of Chris and why he is the way he is, and
for him to just say it in a taxi at night was just very anticlimactic for me. Plus as the story went on in book three it
very much became more mystery and no erotica.
I get as stories progress sex scenes become more glossed over, but in this
book almost every single sex scene was glossed over, the only drawn out ones
are in the beginning and everything else is just rushed through. It’s not right to have details of something
over and over again and then all of sudden not have any.
Overall: Great series, love the
characters they are very easy to fall in love with. The writing is very good in certain parts of
the book, a little boring and anticlimactic in others. I just hope there is more to this story
because you need a follow up and wrap everything up not just one or two of the
plot lines within the story.
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