Perfeck Chaos starts off the Unyielding series with a bang by telling Georgie and Decks story. This book broke my heart over and over again only to turn around and put it all back together. The emotions that rage throughout this book gutted me, and comforted me at the same time because each charater in this book is so real you instinctively feel whatever they feel. It's fucking intense.
Georgie starts off in this book seeming like a depressed party-girl that hides her sadness with sarcasm, men, and booze. Eh-hem. Nothing wrong with that. I am here to tell you she is so much more than that. If you can read through this book without feeling some kind of empathy towards her, then I flat-out say you're a robot, possessed, or a sociopathic. You don't live through what she has without scars.
Deck is protecting Georgie with everything he has, trying to respect her dead brothers wishes for Deck not to be with Georgie, and keeping a secret from her that has the power to further break Georgie. Yes, he can sometimes be an asshole. Yes, he sometimes takes things too far. And hell yes, he is a dangerous man. But he and Georgie cancel out eachothers darkness and find light together. That's a beautiful thing. Kind of like how in math two negatives cancel eachother out. Or was it a negative and a positive that did that? Damn...I never was good at math.
I am honored to have read this book. I give it 4 Stars. Nashoda Rose is talented and from the short time we emailed I can also tell you that she is very nice, generous, and cares about her fans. An author that cares is the very best kind of author there can be.
Perfect Ruin picks up where Perfect Chaos leaves off, but this time it is Kai and Londons turn to tell their story. You meet both Kai and London in the first book of the series and even then you can tell that their story is going to be a rough one. That both these characters have lived through a lot. That they've lived through hell. Where Georgie and Decks book broke my heart in spots, this book shattered me. It was dark, it was the essence of sadness and anger, it was pure devastation. In a good way, I swear.
London is put through so much. She goes through the unthinkable. She is forced to become someone else, someone she doesn't even recognize, someone they call Raven. She survives. Then, once she is saved and once Kai has fixed her and taken her from being just a broken shell of herself to having a sparkle in her eye again...she is again put through hell. She is a survivor. She is Kai's braveheart.
Kia is pure resilience and calculation. Raised to be shut off to emotion, conditioned to be nothing more than a machine. A killer. Made by none other than his own mother. Something in London sparks the emotion and Kai. From then on she is his. He will stop at nothing to get her back.
In this book we finally meet Conner, who is Georgies brother and boy is it a doozey. We get a better understanding of the Vault and how it works, which is an organization you learn about in the first book. Another 4 Stars for this book. I would recommend this series, but you should get both books at the same time because even though the stories are about two different sets of charaters, they do need to be read together and in order.
An advanced readers copy was provided to me by the publishers and the author in exchange for a honest review. This has in no was effected my rating on this book or the overall review.
