While I had mixed feeling on the previous book Dangerous Promise I was still looking forward to starting this one.
That was until I actually started reading then a couple of chapters in I put my kindle down and decided I was done.
One of the problems with the previous book was the seemingly endless one step forward two steps back between Nina and Ewan. I thought we’d moved past that when they finally got together. And while I know that circumstances changed at the end I didn’t expect this to start out the same way and I just couldn’t face it again.

I did however give it another try (skimming huge sections) and after a while it started to work, I stopped skimming and started to actually enjoy what I was reading. Once this happened I couldn’t get enough and I was gutted when it ended.

While the villain was obvious very early on it was no detriment to the book. It doesn’t matter that we know, we’re supposed to know it’s the why, where and when that’s important.

My problem with both this book and the previous one is that they are just too long. The idea behind these is good, I liked Nina and Ewan and the direction the story is taking us it’s just taking too long to get there. Maybe two books would have been better than three.

The first half of this book gets 1* but the rest 4* so now my fingers are firmly crossed for the third and final book.

I voluntarily read a review copy kindly provided by NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press.

I enjoyed the first book in this series. However book two is just more of the same. There were 15 of these enhanced people. Maybe instead of writing three full length novels about one couple, there could have been a book for each enhanced. I'm not sure if I'll even read book three.

Another super romance by Ms. Hart. Can't stop reading. Enjoyed!!

Cliffhanger endings can be brutal, but that’s always the risk with a series that deals with the lows and highs of a single pairing, and especially so if the narrative arc stretches out over all the books. Needless to say, ‘Wicked Attraction’ isn’t a standalone.

Here, the rift between Nina and Ewan widens, though that doesn’t stop both of them from dancing around each other, getting into the same arguments and eventually into bed. Rinse and repeat. She tells him off tearily but says she can’t ever hate him, he grovels and declares his love, once even to the point where he’d literally brought to his knees. The push-pull as always, is a constant repetitive issue here, though there is some development on fronts that feel a bit more peripheral to the issue dividing Ewan and Nina.

Nonetheless, my reading experience with ‘Wicked Attraction’, was on the whole, quite uneven. Ups and downs, if you like. There were parts that interested me more than others and parts where I simply just flipped and skimmed. I was engrossed in the enhancement technology and what was happening to Nina’s body, couldn’t stop rolling my eyes about her neurotic slipping in and out of bed with Ewan yet protesting too much about how much he’d betrayed her (the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, perhaps?), liked some actions scenes and didn’t exactly care about the work that Ewan did with the talented kids as part of his latest project. Nina also did seem like a different character from the more stoic, alpha soldier in the first book; she was more given to emotional outbursts and more dramatic responses, though that was in part, attributed to the changes she was undergoing.

For these minuses however, Megan Hart does write well as I’ve said before, and her sensory prose continues here, which helped get me through the bits that lagged. There were bigger issues that seemed vital to the entire narrative arc but slid past me—the importance of memory and who should get to control them through technology—and I wished I were harder ‘hit’ by what Nina and Ewan were arguing for.

In short, I sort of did like Hart’s concept but I wasn’t always able to keep my interest in the development of the story. It was easy to pick up (and put down, unfortunately) and my ability to fully get into the characters each time made this a decent, but not entirely memorable read.

Really enjoyed this story, I read part 1&2 in one sitting. The premiss was totally different than anything I had read before but I could imagine there would be a lot of people both for and against the use of technology being used in this way to save lives.Nina was so strong, I love a strong heroine and unapologetic about it and Ewan was so gruff you had to love him. I look forward to part 3.