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Dru Anderson has gone through quite a bit in the last few months. Both her parents are dead, her mother when she was child and her father when someone zombified him. Her best friend is a werewolf and she just learned that she isn’t entirely human. Just your usual teenage girl living her normal teenage life. But now Dru is stuck in a secret school in New England, which wouldn’t be a problem except she’s the only girl. Sure the boys may be cute, but she’s pretty sure that one of them is gunning for her and wants her dead. Finding the traitor to the Order wouldn’t be a problem for Dru if it weren’t for the fact that her every move is being watched, which means that exposing the traitor will turn everyone else against her. Will she be able to figure out who is betraying her without losing her life to the cause?
This is another book that I have read before so this review is not about my first response to this book, it is my second response to this book. With that being said, I did not remember much of this book. I don’t think I ever had a moment where I thought to myself, “oh yeah and then blah blah is going to happen.” I can understand why I forgot about this book compared to the last one as this one is much more focused on emotion. There’s a lot of emotional turmoil, angst, you know all the good stuff that leads to character development later on. After all this emotional state is a state of processing everything that the characters have gone through. I know I said that I like the angst of the book but it also frustrated me because I wanted Dru to sort of stop moping. I mean moping isn't really the right term for what she was doing, she was more of, being stubborn and not taking in the things that she had an opportunity to. She’s at a school and has a chance to learn so much about the Order but instead she spends time skipping classes. Even if they are remedial and boring classes, information is information, you never know when it is going to help you. I mean I totally understand her frustration with being treated like a fragile little girl. I understand that she wanted to learn the good stuff, the how to kill monsters stuff but I think she should have tried to learn something in the classes that she was going to.
The plot of this book was just as amazing as expected. I didn’t want to stop reading, things kept happening, questions were being raised. Oh it was so good. On top of it all, this book was mysterious. Out of all the questions that were raised only a few were answered. Not knowing what was happening, being kept in the dark as the reader much like Dru is being kept in the dark just made me want to keep reading more because I hoped that somewhere in the next chapters, I would find out more about who is betraying her, who is putting her in danger. This book ended on a confused mess of questions and I really hope those questions are answered in the book because I don’t think I can take it anymore. I just want to know the truth!
As I said earlier, I did not remember any of this book, quite literally none of it. So the twist and the reveal, took me by total surprise. I was not expecting it and I don’t even think that there is enough foreshadowing about it for anyone to be able to predict it. It was masterfully written because just like the last book, this twist pushed the tension up to a whole new level. I am looking forward to more of the same twists in the next books. I’m sure they are going to be spectacular. The ending of the wasn’t too special I would say. Nothing unexpected or weird but the ending worked really well after the whole book. I think the ending’s tone fit in perfectly with the events that took place prior to it.
A love triangle, really? Can't we do better than that? I just think Dru is too good of a character to have a love triangle as a motivation. She’s strong and fierce and totally doesn’t need the whole do I pick him or do I pick him that inevitably happens when a love triangle is introduced. Although given that this book was published in 2010, I forgive it slightly. But still I really, really want to read more fantasy/sci-fi books where the heroine isn’t in a love triangle or better yet, isn’t even concerned with romance in general.
I would give this book 4 stars because I really enjoyed the plot and the ending. I was and am really invested in the story that I read but also the story that I will read in the next books. The only reason that I am not giving Betrayals 5 stars is because of the frustration and the annoyance that I felt towards Dru. I mean I understand that it is necessary for Dru to go through some rough patches and I understand why Dru was acting the way she was. But it also put me off from the book a little because I couldn’t relate to Dru. I was mad at the main character, which made me not enjoy the book as much because I am supposed to like the main character.
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