2.5/5stars
I can't say I particularly enjoyed this book... Paullina Simons' writing style is absolutely addicting and alluring and beautiful, but this story was just incredibly boring.
Although I enjoyed learning a lot about Alexander's life before Tatiana, once he basically started to retell the story that happened in the first book, I started asking "What is the point?" I also really actually hated how Alexander thought about and described Tatiana - because, while in the first book, from Tatiana's POV, although their relationship did seem a little dramatic and ridiculous, from Alexander is showed how downright toxic it was. I didn't really SEE that Alexander loved her, he kept saying he did, but every time and thought about her or described her, all he would talk about was her body and the sex, which was a little... strange to say the least. It brought their relationship (at least for me) from one of love and romance during horrible, horrible times, to one of purely physical and sexual interest. I also just overall didn't really like Alexander by the end of the book...
I also just simply got bored. Although it was interesting seeing what Tatiana and Anthony were getting up to, it felt like nothing was really happening. And Alexander's chapters that weren't flashbacks were SO boring it hurt.
I'm honestly not TOTALLY sure if I'll pick up the third book.... I really want to see where it goes after the ending of this one, and I want to see how the trilogy ends, but I'm not too keen on it right now.