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If you missed my last KU review on Savage Devil, you can find it here.
Hi guys, I am back with Twisted Knight, book two in the Green Hills Academy trilogy. Savage Devil left on a cliffhanger so Twisted Knight picks up where we left off. If you remember, Violet had just received one of the notes that said bye-bye only to be arrested for the murder of John Lenker and Knight waving bye-bye. In this book, we find Violet in jail.
Lucky for Violet, she isn’t forced to go through arraignment before getting bailed out. It might have been Arabella who was at the jail to bail Violet out and bring her home, but it was Knight who put up the money. Knight didn’t know about the message that Violet got moments before she was arrested. Knight had waved bye-bye for looks not because he was behind it. However, being in the cell put Violet in contact with one of her mother’s former dealing buddies, Jewel. She met Drew too, who took an instant dislike to her.
Knight believes that his uncle was behind the death of his parents and their friend and partner Jack Franklin. He knows his uncle is trying to take control of Knight and Ava’s lives and money but to complete his whole plan, Mayor King needs Violet, but we don’t know why. Knight was at first wanting to just use Violet to stop his uncle but now it’s different, if what he says is to be believed. After getting out of jail, Violet moves out of Knight’s place and into Arabella’s, much to Knight’s dismay. He wants to protect her and doesn’t feel he can if she moves out.
After running into Seraphina and her mother, Crystal, at the mall, Seraphina is now being nice to Violet. It’s really strange. She is saying hi, sitting with her, and inviting her to her birthday. It’s very suspicious. Violet meets up with Jewel and to get some information from Jewel, Violet agrees to get her into the school after it closes one day. It’s Jewel’s cousin’s old phone. It has emails from Seraphina. Jewel’s cousin is the bus driver who wasn’t on the bus when it lost control and he took the blame and was given hush money.
There is so much danger surrounding Violet and we know it is from Seraphina and Mayor King but you don’t know when it is going to strike and I love it. I like the billionaire trope because then when the danger is high and they need to pay someone for information or make a charge go away, I’m not trying to ignore that it was an expensive solution and wondering where the cash came from. Some authors deal with it well, but this does simplify matters making this a fun read because Knight has a stupid amount of money.
I like that Knight is starting to critically think about his actions. He has been through hell and was operating on survival and revenge. As the story goes on and he is told that he’s an ass, usually by Violet, he starts to change in little ways. He was changing even in Savage Devil, but it become more apparent here. For Violet, the struggle is real. She is grieving for her mother but is thrown into danger without any real guidance from adultier adults. She fears danger from Knight, not just that ultimately he will physically harm her, but that he will destroy her heart. She was brought out of a poverty-stricken, dangerous neighborhood only to be put in a money-fueled dangerous neighborhood where she doesn’t know the rules. I would be struggling too.
I didn’t like that Josie didn’t do any research and found out that once arrested, you must be booked into the jail and go through arraignment before you can get bailed out. Also, someone in her position, almost/barely eighteen, without established roots in her community, who hasn’t been living in the same place for a while, has no job, would likely not be let out on bail. So, like movies that make you take a leap, it’s the same here but because I have been around the court system a bit, there is no way I can take that leap. It does allow the story to move forward. To someone who doesn’t know the court system, I am sure it wouldn’t bother them. Though admittedly, it didn’t bother me enough to stop reading as I got through the whole trilogy in two days.
Have you read Savage Devil or Twisted Knight? Or anything else by Josie Max? Let me know in the comments below. Next week I will review book three, Broken King. Until next time, have fun storming the castle!
