New characters are introduced but none of them are terribly interesting. Mostly it's just a lot of stuff happens that I couldn't bring myself to care about. It's odd it's one of those books where a lot happens but nothing really important happens. Really, not a whole lot happened in this book. You can't fool me, I know he's a no-good bastard of a character, don't even try that crap. It's just too bad that Keary Taylor kind of neuters his character toward the end when he tries to redeem himself and she tries to beat it into your head that he's starting to become good. I have to admit, I like Cole in the same way I like all really creepy characters.

We sometimes shift to his perspective, but it's kind of pointless because all he does is talk about how he wants to make Jessica happy. So that causes Alex some angst, along with the fact that he's an angel and stuff and not human anymore. She even gives Alex shit about it, even after he explains his perfectly good reason. But Jessica doesn't seem to understand that and is basically just dead set on getting married no matter what. Alex knows that there's a chance that the angels will take him away from her forever and so he doesn't want to marry her because he doesn't want to leave her alone and unhappy without a husband. At the end of the last book, he sacrificed himself to save Jessica and instead of dying he came back as an angel, but there's no guarantee that he'll be with her forever. Now, the thing is, Alex has a pretty good reason for not wanting to marry her. Like I mentioned, her biggest source of angst is the fact that Alex won't propose to her, which makes her feel just a tad insecure (understatement of the century). It's good because 'OMG we're together and he's so hawt eeeee' and bad because 'OMG why won't he fucking marry me does he not love me whyyy? *sobangst*' The problem that I had with Jessica in this book was that she was kind of bitchy. Jessica and Alex's lame relationship is in some weird limbo state where it's good and bad at the same time. So, this book starts off some time after the last one left off. Just a fair warning: there will be spoilers in this review. Seriously, 85% of this book was angst from either Jessica, Alex, or Cole. Or as I like to call it, 'For the Sake of Angst'.

Vindicated by Keary Taylor