It is loved by countless others and I hope to join them in that love some day. It didn’t work out for me this time, but next time I hope to be able to appreciate the action brought forth from this story and hopefully be able to love what this author has created. By the time the action and peril got to the story, I felt like I didn’t care and it was too late…but maybe next time I can find the love I didn’t have this time and fully immerse myself into their world. At the moment, I can’t seem to find a reason to continue because I was so put off by the cheesy dialogue between Penny and Talia, the cliched moments when Donovan got jealous (that scene could have been epic-I love jealous scenes), and altogether my lack of love for the story, but, I really see myself coming back and attempting a re read in the future because this book/series holds so much promise. This book made me want more, but also had me backing away. Now, I did love their scenes together and I even still loved Donovan. There was also an extra love interest, Erik, who was her right hand man and teammate.

I just don’t like when scenes aren’t played out for me and I can’t become immersed in the world, and I felt this happened more than once with this one. It would say that Talia and her team were going out to train and then all of a sudden the next night would be there in a flash, or maybe I had began to zone out so frequently that I didn’t realize. It was adorable when they were together, sure, but it wasn’t altogether gripping paired with the story as a whole. I loved their little bubble they hung out in at first, but as the story started to expand and the cute little moments became repetitive, I began losing interest. She is dating Donovan, the head of the Academy she will be attending’s son. She has a talent to both open the mind of others and open her mind in return. Talia wants revenge on the man who killed her family-Ian Crane. But, as I said before, I think the story as a whole had a lot of potential and this leads me to believe that this is, in fact, my perception of the story and that many people will love it.

But as the dialogue started to drag and I began to lose interest (rather quickly), I started to realize that perhaps this was not A) What I was in the mood for and B) At all what I expected it to be. It didn’t seem to be bad at first, and as a whole, the story actually was pretty well thought out and fun.

I got it on my Ipad and immediately put it in front of other ARCs to read…but it just didn’t work for me. **ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review**

Talented by sophie davis