When I start a series, I generally end up hoovering up all the available material and spin offs. So I grabbed up Sinner. If you look on Amazon, Sinner is listed as the fourth book in the series. I contest this. The first three books are all about Sam and Grace and make up a neat little trilogy, Sinner is about two side characters: Cole and Isabel. So unless there a whole bunch more of these books coming, it's a spin off.It's a good spin off.
Sam and Grace were a bit saccharine. Nothing too awfully tooth rotting, but still sweet. Cole and Isabel are much more edgy. Here are two very angry and very broken people tied together into some sort of bizarre love story in L.A. I liked it.
The feel of the book was more adult and covered some very different issues than the first three. Isabel is struggling with depressive apathy and Cole recovering from attempted self-annihilation
. Both these expressions of depression are handled thoughtfully and realistically. But it's a bit heavy for the average teenager.
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