Dilek VT's Reviews > The Opportunist

This review is about all 3 books in the series.
Do not read these books as a stand-alone. They must be read in order.

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This series is something else. They will (pardon my language but) f*ck with your mind! You will constantly be thrown away at the walls of an invisible torture room.

You will be made to feel and think something about someone. Love, hate, anger, pity, sorrow, whatever...

Then, you will be forced to change all these feelings and thoughts when the truth is revealed.

Just when you believe that you have the truth, you will soon see that it wasn’t really the truth at all.

Mind-f*ck, right? Yeah, that is what I am talking about...



The writer will play with your judgement, morals, assessment, your right and wrong.
The writer will definitely not treat you well.

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I had these moments when I wanted to throw away my tablet, then bounce on it, jump on it, smash it into little bits and pieces. These series sucked the life out of me.

I seriously thought of putting them down, but that was impossible too, curiosity killed the cat, right?



So, I managed to survive these books and now my life is given back to me after 3 days.

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My final thoughts after completing the series:

This series, no matter how painful the process is, is definitely worth reading. They are extremely good. Just wait till the last sentence of the last book and you will agree with me.

Before that, you may be furious, angry, sad, depressed... But, it is worth the suffering.

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This series is worth more than 5 stars.

The writing is very good. I had never read something like that before. Sure, there are many books around with flashbacks from the past. But this series is different.

All 3 books, have the same format: One chapter past, one chapter present, one chapter past, one chapter present. I don’t know how but the organization of it flows very smoothly and pulling this out requires great talent, I suppose. Congratulations to the writer...

There are main narrators for all three books and that changes only once or twice throughout the book.



The first book is told by the heroine, Olivia, or the opportunist as the cover says.

I have been “Team Olivia” from the very start till the end unlike some readers.

At the end of this first book, I was so devastated, so miserable and so unhappy that for a moment I considered not continuing the series but then, I found the courage in myself to go on, and thank God, I did go on, or otherwise I would have missed a great reading experience.

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The second book is told by Leah, the villain of the series, the snake or the dirty red as the cover says. You go from pitying her to wanting to murder her. That was some experience.

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The 3rd book was the best of all. It is told by the hero, Caleb.

Up until the third book, I hated Caleb. I hated him for his mistakes, for what he did and for what he did not do.

In this third book, I understood him and made my peace with him. Then, I loved him.

Wow, from strong hatred to love...Go figure!

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To cut it short, I recommend the whole series. Don’t miss them. They are a must-read. Not safe, but still worth reading!

I don’t want to go into plot details but it is about two soul mates who cannot have their happily ever after for an unbelievably long time because of their characters, their mistakes, other people’s interference and the fate itself...

It is not about second chances; it is about maybe tenth chances because the story is spread over ten years of a life time.

Read this series, you won’t regret it...

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My favorite quotes from Book 1: The Opportunist:

“I fell in love underneath a tree.”

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“You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away." And then he left.”

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“Olivia, you can have any man you want. Why him ? Why is it always about Caleb ?" "Because...because I didn't need anyone until I met him.”

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“Oh what do you know about love ? You've never cheated to have it.”

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“Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me”