After pretty much adoring Unraveling, I was really looking forward to the finale in the duet, Unbreakable. Unfortunately, I’m sad to say, that this was really just a huge disappointment for me.
There are a couple reasons that I think this book missed the mark (for me at least). The biggest reason is the characters. In Unraveling Janelle and Ben were vivid and their personalities jumped off the page. Their relationship was romantic and sweet and the interactions between them made the action along the way even more fun.
But in Unbreakable the characters just fell flat. It’s almost like they weren’t even the same characters at all. Janelle especially is such a far cry from the sarcastic and fun girl we got in Unraveling. I don’t know what happened, but she was just not the Janelle we met in the first book. Then there’s Ben who really kind of faded into the background in this book. Whereas I was really rooting for them in the first book, in this one I just wasn’t really seeing the spark between him and Janelle anymore. The chemistry between them was virtually gone, in fact I felt more chemistry between Janelle and Barclay than between her and Ben even though her and Barclay never even have a romantic relationship.
The other big problem with this book is the entire point of it. Or in other words, what in the world was the point of this book? With a duet series you would think that the two books kind of make sense together and that they are both needed to tell a story too large to fit in just one book. However, the storyline for this just kind of came out of left field. Other than the very miniscule portion of it that involved reuniting Ben and Janelle, the rest of it was just so random compared to the first book. So again, what was the point of this book? I hate to say it, but it felt like a fluff book to me. After reading this I really kind of just wish Unraveling had been a tad bit longer and just wrapped up differently as a standalone.
Aside from the negative I did enjoy the fast-pace, but without the characters I grew to love in the first place it just wasn’t as much fun. However, I did enjoy getting to know Barclay a bit more.
Would have appreciated if he wasn’t killed off after we finally got to know him though. 
Overall, not what I expected after the first book and not in a good way. Not sure where this story came from after the first book, but it just didn’t fit and the characters lost their luster in this one. Sad to say it, but it’s how I feel.
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