THE WATCHER CHRONICLES BY S.J WEST GOODREADS SERIES
Lucifer's plans might have been thwarted for a time, but it is clear that the series is going to continue but with different leading characters in the future. As did the fact that it is not over - NOPE! As happy as I was that Jess and Mason got their HEA, I was disappointed that Jess didn't save Lucifer (especially with all that stuff about a soulmate connection). I get that the characters needed to maintain a little of a normal life, but it made the climax anticlimactic. Seriously, more paragraphs are devoted to them sneaking off together and saccharine sweet talk between them than to the problem the characters have been trying to solve since book one. Yet Jess is constantly distracted by things like attending concerts and planning a wedding, and she and Mason are always running off to have sex. For example, Jess's group of friends have a pretty monumental task ahead of them = preventing Lucifer from destroying Earth and all its alternate realities. My expectations must have been too high for this book because I found myself exasperated by so many little things. This is the conclusion of Jess's story as she and her friends finally figure out what Lucifer has planned and face off against him in order to close the tear and save the world - yay! One other thing, this series really needs to be filed under YOUNG ADULT, because it's definitely written like a young adult series. They should of been portrayed more of a bad ass nature. It was like these angels had no brain of their own and couldn't think for themselves at times. It made me cringe whenever she talked to them (like they were dumb or something, giving THEM advice about behavior when she is just 22 years old herself) and they are like millions of years old. Overall a great story, but there were times I felt the main character Jessi was childish and dumb and bossy especially in regards of the other characters who were ancient (arch) angels.
I would also tighten up the story as I thought there was a lot of unnecessary dialogue that didn't need to be said.
If you take out a lot of the make out scenes between the main characters Jessi and Mason and the one stupid, big scene where the main character Jessi was being insecure and jealous of her husband's past lovers (which I thought was kind of dumb to begin with), it would be a way better story showing the main character as a strong individual, not some emotional insecure little girl who needed to be coddled. First, I would make it a trilogy and not four books for the entire story to be written in. This is a pretty good series, but there are some things I would change about the story.
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