Made it about 70% way through. The series just does out on me. It was getting dull to me. I could anticipate everything that was happening and couldn’t get through it as I had with the earlier books.

Book Review: Almost Dead by T.R. Ragan

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This has been my least favorite Lizzy Gardner book. The last book ended tragically which carries over into this book. Lizzy begins to fundamentally change as a person and not for the better. Kit ally gets some much needed character development which is nice.

I love this series and I loved this book. The end bothered me though and I'm not sure how the next one will be. This is one of my favorite series so I'm anxious to see how goes.

#5 was great! Lizzy is fighting for her future husband after a terrible tragedy that left 4 people dead at wedding. Just like #1-4, T.R. Ragan will have you rushing to read what happens next!

a little disappointed in the way this series is going....

Eagan regurgitated her old books and forced them down your throat

This literally has been the worst book in the series. It felt like the other regurgitated the old plots , added some dog shot, and swirled them together then forced them down your throat. I'm not happy with any of this and I don't really give a shit about reading the next book. My favorite character is dead, Lizzy is off her rocker, and everyone else is going to shit. Do NOT recommend reading past the first book.

Well, here we are with yet another Lizzy Gardner book, and man, what a kick in the teeth. The first two were such meh reads, and then three and four were much better and quite interesting. Obsessed ended with quite a cliffhanger, and I was interested to see how Ragan would tackle the issue that she presented. The way she went? Sucky. So sucky.

We have regressed to super bad - the book is not good. At all. Instead of being edgy with the whole botched/ruined wedding thing and instead of using this book for extreme character growth/introspection and to pack and emotional punch of note, Ragan blabs around in circles and goes nowhere, and the book is even more unrealistic than others in the series. The cases being investigated by her, Kitally and Hayley are so silly and there is nothing compelling about this book.

There are so many issues that could legitimately be explored in this book, like losing a loved one, respecting another person, dedication, support, domestic abuse, all of those things, and instead this book hobbles along in the most insipid manner possible. The villain dragged back for this? I barely remembered him from the first book. In fact, I barely remember anything about why Lizzy is the way she is, other than that she was kidnapped and held for some time. Like, how bad is it that the main protagonist we have been following for five books now is beyond lacklustre and mediocre? What?

The best way to summarise Almost Dead is extremely bland and boring. What a wasted opportunity that was set up. The book had no heart, and it had so much to work with, too. This series is so hit and miss - and more miss than anything, with only two semi-decent entries so far. The Jessie Cole book started with a bigger bang, and I am thinking that, if Ragan continues that series the way she started it, she will definitely have me sold, because Lizzy Gardner and her band of misfits is really irritating me more than entertaining me.

At this point, I'm just finishing the series to find out what happens to Halley and Kitally, the assistants to the "protagonist". They are far more complex and interesting than Lizzy.