If Love Is Your Bane

When I first started the book, U thought she was giving as the side story of Happy Ever After for the unholy trinity. Although technically in the main series, they did live happily ever after, it wasn’t the version of HEA that I’m super happy about. But after reading the series so a couple of years have passed, I have lived with the ending and original sinners is still my ultimate favourite series, from its unconventional characters, brilliant storyline and Tiffany Reisz’s amazing writing style. 

Although I was hooked at the very start, the excitement didn’t stay with me throughout the book. I must admit that I was quite disappointed with the book. The first 20% of the book has a really good build-up to the main plotline which was really the downfall for me. 

Having watched Shutter Island, the storyline was not a surprise to me. I kind of guessed the ending and that was the mood killer for me at around 60% of the book. I just wanted to complete the book and even after finishing the book, there is some sort of emptiness that which I feel from the book. The feeling of incompleteness, as if there were missing elements from the ending. 

I’ve read quite a few number of books under the fantasy/romance/high school genre. Tijan is on my list of “authors to look out for” since I know that her books are usually quite good. But for Ryan’s Bed, I must say I am quite disappointed. 

The storyline wasn’t able to hold my attention span for long and I constantly flipped through the pages of kindle ebook quickly. I felt that she was trying to pull a fast one on us. Mackenzie was just like Sam from fallen crest while Ryan was Mason. I felt that there was nothing new in it, same fallen crest storyline but shown in a different way. 

The ending was honestly out of nowhere for me, and there was no explanation for it. As if she suddenly had an idea at the end of the book and decided to just put it in to make it more exciting. But it was seriously a no go for me, there was nothing to support it her ending. 

I was and am still a big fan of Tijan’s Carter Reed and Fallen Crest Series and I really hope that the next book will be much better in terms of novelty and not back to her classic books.