![]() They basically live together and even sleep together a few times, although Gideon does still suffer from the nightmares that cause him to act out scenarios in his sleep. ![]() Eva and Gideon settle into a relationship when he takes the apartment next to hers, which means that she can sneak away to see him often. Eva’s just the one who found out about it when it was all over.ĭespite that hanging over them, there’s a lot of lightness in this novel – a lot of playfulness. After all, he’s the one that carried it out. Gideon is struggling with it privately too – perhaps even more so than Eva. Although when it opens, Eva and Gideon are still negotiating how she feels about what he did to her former stepbrother in order to ensure her safety, this is actually the most stable they’ve been since the beginning. To be honest, I think a lot of the original format shows in this book. This was originally supposed to be the final novel in Sylvia Day’s hugely successful Crossfire series until it was announced not that long ago that it would now be a 5 book arc, not 3. For every step forward they often suffer two steps back and now it’s time to see just how far they can go and just how much they’re willing to sacrifice for the other in the pursuit of their ultimate happy ending. The road to happiness was never going to be easy for two people with issues such as Eva and Gideon. Despite their private understanding, Eva and Gideon still face their issues: Gideon clearly doesn’t like Brett’s intention to get back with Eva and Eva has difficulties with the fact that Corinne is such a presence in Gideon’s life. Her devastation was so real that it’s almost impossible to fake and there’s the added complication of her ex-boyfriend, hot rocker Brett Kline being in town and watching to catch up with the view of perhaps something more. ![]() She also has to keep up public appearances and continue to look as though she isn’t seeing anyone and this is something that she finds difficult. She’s pretty adamant that she’s not going to go away until she knows the truth and that Eva can expect to see her/hear from her again.Įva’s anguish from being separated from Gideon has abated but she does have the new trauma of dealing with what Gideon was willing to do, what he has done, in order to ensure her safety. Eva finds herself being approached by a reporter who is convinced that she has the dirt on Gideon’s possible violent temper towards women and she wants Eva to give her the story. The two are still separated publically as Gideon seeks to continue to avoid police interest. If you haven’t read that (and want to) it’s probably best to avoid this review.Įva and Gideon’s tempestuous relationship has had nothing but ups and downs since its beginning and nothing has changed. The kills became about gore and torture, which did provide some of the shocking onscreen murders that made the franchise so infamous but robbed the kills of any meaning or tension, detaching the story from its overall theme and making the Saw franchise into something totally different (and way worse).Please note that the following review will contain general ***SPOILERS*** for the two previous Crossfire books, in particular the second novel, Reflected In You. Especially with Jigsaw's replacement in later installments, some of the traps became inescapable, completely obliterating the original underlying meaning that kept the concept afloat. At the beginning of the series, the movies were about a psychopath with a terminal illness, abducting unwitting victims to take part in an experiment to determine what they would do if they knew they had little time left to live.Īfter Saw III, the concept started to fall off into the territory of seeing how much gore can we put into 90 minutes. This could be one of the key reasons the franchise lost its overarching meaning and slowly devolved. While this did give him some creative control over the sequels, it's not quite the same as being in the director's chair. He only stayed on as producer for the rest of the franchise. It's worth noting that prolific horror director James Wan ( Malignant) only helmed the first Saw movie and co-wrote Saw III. While the earlier movies have inspired the question of Saw's possible basis in real events, the later films of the franchise are too outlandish to warrant it.
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