Review – Possession (The Turning, Book 2) Jennifer Armintrout (1/5 stars)

Okay I didn’t really like the first book in this series much but I already had the second book downloaded on audio so I figured I might as well listen to it. I guess I can’t say it was a waste of time because I was driving while I listened to it, but I can say I won’t be reading any more of these books.

In this book Cyrus is brought back to life as a human and Nathan runs around mad possessed by something. There you have the majority of the book. Many pages are spent on Cyrus angsting about how he feels guilty for all he did as an “evil” vampire and him wondering how to atone for it. Nathan runs around killing people; as he is insane. This book is primarily about Max and Cyrus. Max comes to help Carrie help Nathan. There is a lot of time spent on Max’s and werewolf girl’s relationship. There is a lot of time spent on Carrie and her desperate need for Nathan to be alright and Carrie and her desperate need for Cyrus to be alright.

You here about Max not wanting to fall in love, about Carrie not being in love with Cyrus but loving him, and about Carrie loving Nathan but Nathan loving his dead wife. There really is not much plot development. I think you could have condensed this book down to maybe a page and called it done.

There isn’t very much gore or violence in this book. There are a couple brief fight scenes. The amount of action is minuscule. Carrie proves herself to be as much of a victim as ever, despite her own thoughts that she has changed so much since killing Cyrus. She is still whinny and incompetent (both emotionally and physically). Even the new female lead character the werewolf woman; despite being less whiny and more competent, ends up needing a man to help here out and constantly shows her “vulnerable” side. This whole book was too much of the swooning woman and big man coming to help me type. I didn’t like it at all; I kind of wished that Cyrus would go crazy and wipe out the whole lot of them. Of course, he didn’t, he was just as whinny and indecisive as everyone else in the book.

I would recommend skipping this series altogether and reading something worth your time.
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