BeautyAndTheBooks's Reviews > Hunted

My ratings on this series is rapidly lowering the longer it goes on.

I don’t feel like the Larkin we met in the other books is the same we got in this one. She never seemed crazy and outspoken in the others, more like she was silently amused by other people. And I didn’t know her demon had a reputation known by everyone for being intimidating and insane.
I also didn’t feel like she was close to the girls in the other books, but in this she was constantly partying with them, and having movie nights and stuff.
I also didn’t feel like the sentinels and Knox were overprotective of Larkin in any way previously, but in this book they were all over her. She also referred to them as her brothers which felt weird because I don’t remember them ever referring to her as their sister, or necessarily the others as their brothers.

Teague wasn’t a realistic love interest in my opinion. We didn’t know much about him. He was barely a part of Khloe and Kellan’s book, even though he is Khloe’s anchor. So it felt weird to read about him as if we just knew him.
This includes his clan. They just showed up out of nowhere. I don’t remember ever hearing about them before.
I feel like we need to know the characters at a certain level before we get to their books. And I feel like the first four, who all focused on Harper and Knox should have done that, simply because the books are too short to fully get to know a character basically from scratch.

I also feel like they miss their characteristics when we move on from their books. Harper was one of my favourite characters to ever read about. But I feel like she lost certain elements of herself when she was no longer the lead character. Same with Knox who was intimidating and powerful at first. And now it’s not the same. Maybe it’s done so he doesn’t steal the show by easily fixing everyone’s problems, since he is so powerful. But it just isn’t done right, you know?

World building wise, their secrets are driving me insane. I understood keeping Knox’s secret in the beginning, and I understood why Harper didn’t tell her friends when she found out. But then som of her friends mated with the sentinels who also knew the secret, and yet it remained a secret. And I felt like they were never included, but always sort of on the outside of the group. Then Rainy kept secrets about Maddox, then Larkin about Teague and his clan, and even Teague is keeping secrets about those Angel demon MC guys from Larkin!
Not to mention how Knox’s sentinels knows about Harper’s ability to call on the flames of hell, but her best friends don’t.
It is just a hot mess at this point, and I feel like they will never know each other’s secrets.
I feel like they can never call on anyone or receive help from each other because secrets need to be kept. It was like how Khloe almost died in her own book because Knox hesitated to use his powers, because his secret would be out.

I also have to mention how I don’t understand why Viper and Ella will get their own book in this series.
I don’t feel like either of them have enough of a tie to the original group to be a part of it. It would have been better with a spinoff series for sure, where these original characters aren’t really involved anymore.
The group is just becoming so big it gets crowded in scenes trying to include everyone. And like I have stated I feel like the author isn’t doing a good enough job of preserving the characteristics of all these different people, and they only end up as background noice.