Review: CROSSFIRE SERIES

Bared to You

He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily...Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private wounds... and desires.The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart...

Reflected in You

Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn’t stay away. I didn’t want to. He was my addiction… my every desire… mine.

My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We’d never work. It was too hard, too painful… except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession…

Entwined with You

From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside—so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat. No one knows how much he risked for me. How much I'd been threatened, or just how dark and desperate the shadow of our pasts would become. Entwined by our secrets, we tried to defy the odds. We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession...

Captivated by You

Gideon calls me his angel, but he’s the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face his own.

The vows we’d exchanged should have bound us tighter than blood and flesh. Instead they opened old wounds, exposed pain and insecurities, and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows. I felt him slipping from my grasp, my greatest fears becoming my reality, my love tested in ways I wasn’t sure I was strong enough to bear.At the brightest time in our lives, the darkness of his past encroached and threatened everything we’d worked so hard for. We faced a terrible choice: the familiar safety of the lives we’d had before each other or the fight for a future that suddenly seemed an impossible and hopeless dream...

Let me just outright tell you guys that I liked this book and I even bought a paperback of the first book and it was a first time for me to buy an erotica and I was like 16 during that time. Honestly, I enjoyed the first three books but I guess (and feel) like Sylvia is just dragging the whole story and it becoming less and less interesting. In my opinion, it would be better if the story ended in the third book. Its now coming out as trying-too-hard.

"I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true."

I actually like this series better than Fifty Shades (which I believe is poorly written and lacks context and meaning). The first time I came across this book I felt relieved because I was expecting it to turned out to be a completely and utterly disaster and disappointment but it wasn't. It's actually the polished version. It's just sad that it's very similar to the Fifty Shades. Although I have mentioned that I have enjoyed the first three books, it doesn't necessarily state that its something worth reading. Its a book that you'd probably read when you're trying to kill time or alone in some place and wants to not look too weird for being alone so you pretend to read a book.  

"You are mine, Angel." 

There is a lack of consistency in the characters. Ava is indecisive. And their issues, the portrayal of their issues are too unrealistic, unbelievable and downright insensitive. The step-by-step process of dealing with their issues aren't shown. It seems as if they have been blinded with high level of libido that they both have forgotten about their traumatic pasts that, may I point out, are both in relation with sex. I just want issues like these to be treated with respect and made believable because there are actual people that went or going through with these sort of stuff. The sex scenes are funny. I never felt hot and horny. I'm not also sure if those sex scenes are supposed to be funny or romantic or sexy coz they're definitely the first one. I know, I know, I'm not supposed to expect something more from a smut disguised as a contemporary romance but hey, a girl can dream, can't she? 

I was expecting some kind of connection between the two protagonist but there isn't. There is sexual tension though.I guess all I'm saying is, if the author wants to drag the story, she could've at least slowed down a bit. Let her characters develop, build a connection between them and make things a bit more realistic.I gotta say, the fourth installment is plain drama that it's not worth dealing with anymore. Again, just dragging.