Isn’t this cover yummy?! So much more than just an illusion…
First, it should be noted that as this review is regarding the fourth book in a series it may contain spoilers. I have tried extremely hard not to post any BUT you should read the books in order:
Just an Illusion – Side A
Just an Illusion – The B Side
Just an Illusion – EP
Just an Illusion – Unplugged
Having recently finished the first three books in the Just an Illusion series, I knew to expect certain things before I even picked up this story. What I didn’t expect was to read a story that was so much more intense then I ever anticipated. <b>Just an Illusion – Unplugged </b>Is Sawyer’s story. Readers go back in time before Amelia Greyson comes on board with Bastard and Dangerous (B.A.D.) to get a first hand accounting of the past as Sawyer experienced it. Trust is put to the ultimate test more than once between fraternal twins, Sawyer and Noah. Yet the experiences the brothers share with Mel are infinity more detrimental to the brothers, and their entire family. Take a walk down memory lane with Sawyer as he gives his accounting from the beginning. How much pain does the budding relationship with Mel cause? Will Sawyer and Noah’s bond withstand the near constant beating it takes? Read the series to find out.
Just an Illusion – Unplugged adds so much context and character development to the entire series. I know that in reading the first books I was totally #teamSawyer. Now, having read Sawyer’s narrative on the events from the previous stories I’m even more devastated by the love triangle that was Noah, Sawyer and Mel. I can’t deny that I fell in love with Noah. How could you not?! Yet, it never changed the heartbreak I experienced for Sawyer as he let happiness slip through his fingers again and again. Mel’s accounting in the Just an Illusion series (Side A, The B Side and EP) gave readers small glimpses of Sawyers intensity. In reading <b> Unplugged</b>readers will live in the wreckage of the most powerful attraction I have ever read about as Sawyer choose his brother’s wellbeing over his own, again and again!
D. Kelly shed so much light on the entire series by writing Sawyer’s narrative that I feel like she raised the <I>perfection</I> bar. You might ask how it’s possible to raise said bar?! Seriously, you just need to read this series and you’ll understand that in writing Sawyer’s narrative just how much Sawyer’s actions cost him. As with the previous books in this series, you will feel a plethora of emotions and some of them even more keenly then with the previous books. There will be a book five out in the late summer or early fall. (Yes, I played blue ribbon stalker and hunted down D. Kelly to ask about this!!!) Unplugged doesn’t leave readers with a cliffhanger ending, but since we’ve read the previous books, it’s also apparent that the story isn’t over where we leave off. My favorite part of Unplugged is the development of Belle and Sawyer’s relationship…I honestly never saw that coming…
In the meantime, quit reading reviews and start reading the books…You won’t be sorry