One with You (Crossfire Book 5) Kindle Edition

Compared to the way this series began (especially books 1-3) I feel this book fell short of the mark.
I was a little disappointed with book 4 and really hoped the final book in this series would be something special to compensate for that. Yet sadly not.
I don't feel many of the characters and plots had closure and some twists introduced in this book were unecessary and left even more questions unanswered. Such as; Did Victor know of Lauren's past and her marriage to Jackson when she met him? Or did Anne Lucas get charged for her role in terrorising Gideon or Monica/Lauren's death or fraudulent conduct with her patients I.e. Corinne and Roland? Did Corinne release her book after all or get professional help after her head trip with Anne as her therapist?
I also felt the book very repetitive and "fluffy", I mean we get how hot Gideon and Eva think each other are, but does it have to be repeated on every page?? A lot of good info was skipped in lieu of filling the pages with fluff.
Too much hype, not much substance in this book.

First off the extremely long wait for this book did not give me "can't wait excitement" to read the long awaited ending to the much loved series I had read in the first 2 books.

Secondly, this book as with the third I felt was a bit of a let down. I don't believe all the characters that I had invested so much of my thoughts got the ending I thought they needed to finalise the story. I understand this is a Gideon and Eva story with others as sub plots. However, they are fundamental to the Eva and Gideon story and while it was implied between the lines how things would pan out it would have been nice to actually read the conclusion. To do this there should not have been such a long novel with glossed over parts and added unnecessary plots. There probably should have been another book for the extra content or a novella at the least.

It would have been nicer to read more into Gideon's family as they worked forward to reconciliation and why his mother left like that and dig more into why she did what she did. I would have loved to have read more interactions with his family especially Ireland as she popped up so much in the series.
Plus what happened to Anne Lucas and her husband. So much cover up but no real conclusion to where they were destined to. And, what about Corinne. Both of these characters were an integral part of the story line.

Then there was the loveable Cary with his mixed up life.
Why go so much into Cary's past and invest into his life if we didn't get to see if he got his happiness with Trey.

And again, was it easier to write off Monica and disclose her situation that way. I think Monica could have been kept alive and added this dimension without all the pain. Victor still could have came to New York and found love there or maybe Stanton could have died instead leaving his fortune to Monica and then Victor and her could have been together.
I was so disheartened at her loss. More heartache that Eva didn't need to endure. I also had to wonder whether this arch in the story really was needed at all. It really was a strange arch when all of her background came under scrutiny that it sort of didn't make much sense to have it come out like that or even have it at all.

The epilogue also didn't deliver. Such a waste! I wanted an epilogue for the epilogue.

One thing that did deliver and that was closure of Eva and Gideon's love affair to happy married couple. They ended as strong as I predicted they would. Something that we would all love to have in our own lives. Gotta love an animal to bring a couple closer too. The first step towards a family.

I'm not sorry I invested all my time and energy into this series as I do love Gideon and Eva and am waiting for the TV series to come out. However, I felt let down as a fan. So much potential at the start and it is as if the last 3 books took on totally different dimensions to the beloved series format. This book tried to get it back in snippets but still lacked the oomph. Not the sexual content though, that was there and was dealt with satisfactory.

Since this series has come out I have found many other books to read in between the long waits. I loved this series and Slyvia Day's writing. But, I have found many other great authors out there too, and, better priced, so I don't think I will be back to read Sylvia's books for awhile.

So I've been a huge fan of this series. 5 stars all the way. Love the angst and obsessive sexy aspects as well as the cat fights and antagonism....awesome stuff!!! So this book for me was supposed to be about tying off the loose ends and major bitch slap downs (once and for all) and finally the fantasy wedding.....mmmmmm no wedding and not a real HEA.....just a load of "What the hell? Are you serious? You killed off her mother? Before the wedding? Sylvia Day, what in gods name were you thinking?" I'm left depressed and severely disappointed. There was no satisfaction or contentment in that ending. Just horrible feelings and disbelief. Wish I'd never read the series now. God....it's gonna take me days to get over this....I kind of hate you right now. I can't even write what I was intending to write....I'm too upset. Goodbye.

It was ok...some fluff that had me skipping through. The epilogue was a let down. If you're going to finish a series we want a HEA a few years down the track where Eva and Gideon are still blissfully in love with little blonde haired blue eyed babies running around. Having an epilogue a week later is kind of redundant and doesn't provide the closure needed for this supposed FINAL chapter.

I'm trying to be careful not to introduce spoilers into this review.

Really the whole series should have been a trilogy. This book was a mess. The plot and sub-plots were all over the place. The story felt contrived and tired. Gideon and Eva seemed like different characters, Gideon became weak and insecure and I kept scanning pages to move the plot along at a faster pace. The ending was a hot mess and if that's a strategy to leave things open-ended for more books in the series...well I've lost all interest by this point.

After four amazing books and so much build up, none of the story lines were really concluded, too much was still left hanging in the air and the happy ending I'd been waiting for was more of a fizzle. There was too much going on and the book really didn't end with things being settled. I kind of wish I wouldnt have read it so that I could still have that fantasy ending in my head rather than the ending I just read.

Sylvia Day is a real gem. Beautiful ending, my main distress is that it is the last of the series and I started reading her new series and it stopped! Eva and Gideon are a sating (is that a word) couple. Their intimate connection deeply satisfying, their flaws clever, their sex delicious, the only thing about the last lovely book was for me, too much bling. If you want great sex a deeply credible relationship and a story to read more than once, this series is the one for you. Thank you Silvia.