actually I always wanted to read Poughkeepsie, and by the cover looks, though I've read the excerpt on Goodreads, I always though that story was about a city with some kind of vampire empire something… I didn't knew why and what was bringing me to that thought…
and when my most favourite publisher in the world, Ms. Enn Bocci, offering me via her mailing list, to sign up for book tour of Saving Poughkeepsie, I'm very excited, especially that she offered if any of us, haven't read the first 2 books, she'll be glad to send us the ebooks…
so, then I got the first 2 ebooks…
the first book on the series,
Poughkeepsie is generally nice story, the story opened with Livia McHugh and Blake Hartt's story… and we'll get to know about Cole Bridge and Kyle McHugh (Livia' sister)'s story as well… and… also about Beckett Taylor and Eve Hartt…
after the first book, I sensed that Beckett and Eve's story was more bold than the others… it's kinda unbalance since the story started with Livia and Blake, although also ended with Livia and Blake were getting married, Beckett and Eve should have more to tell…
Cole and Kyle, got a nice portion in between…
after read the other 2 books, then we'll get to know… yeah… main characters in the story were actually Beckett and Eve…
in short, Beckett is a criminal, made by the situation, met with his brothers, Cole and Blake, in a foster home, and determined to get a better living for his brothers after their time to live in the foster home is up…
so, Beckett did what he have to do… he grew up to be the most respected criminal in Poughkeepsie… while Cole was going to be a pastor and Blake was struggling with his mental limitation to see the ray of sunlight…
and they met with the ladies… Blake met Livia, Cole met Kyle, and Eve… she has her own agenda with Beckett…
after a rather death and life situation, Beckett should got away from Poughkeepsie… leaving Eve behind until undetermined time…
Return to the Poughkeepsie is the second book of the series, when Mary Ellen Vitullo, a daughter of Mafia gangsters, wanted a revenge to her ex boyfriend, Sevan Harmon, she messed in Poughkeepsie…
since her father was hurt, I didn't knew on what reason, Eve went undercover and got to get inside of Mary Ellen's organisation…
she got to know with Ryan Morales, a police officer, who works for the case…
after Livia's got kidnaped by the Vitullo's, Beckett was coming back to Poughkeepsie and tried to handle the situation…
however, Eve killed Mary Ellen and the story rolled…
Rodolfo Vitullo, Mary Elle's father, got Eve and Beckett released her with condition that he works for Rodolfo…
and then we came to the last book of the series,
Saving Poughkeepsie…
with the truce agreement between Beckett and Rodolfo, each of them, has their own plan…
Rodolfo thought that he should have one or more heirs… since Mary Ellen was killed and he didn't saw a very bright future of his kingdom with Primo, his son, he's thinking of trying to have Eve as the mother of his heirs…
while Beckett… after trying to be a good person for Eve, he has a grand plan to build a better community in Poughkeepsie…
when Beckett was out of town, Rodolfo's mens tried to kidnap Eve, but failed… however Nicholas, Rodolfo's assistant, has an information about Eve's medical background, and they came up with a different approach to the plan…
in the end… the bad people were all dead…
everyone then has their own happy endings…
overall… mind me if I messed with the story telling… I love the series… I really love it… I hope I will meet some Beckett more please… :3
though, there are details that sometimes, dragging the story quite out of it's line…
the story was about family, and building one…
that even though… there are circumstances that made us what we are at some point, we have to have hope… that
the sky is our limit… and we have to have faith and belief to the people we love… we have to give our self chance to be better…
Update:
Just wanna share my rating of these books ;-)
- Poughkeepsie : 3 out of 5 stars
- Return to Poughkeesie : 4 out of 5 stars
- Saving Poughkeepsie : 5 out of 5 stars
