Review: Switch of Fate 3

Switch of Fate 3 by Lisa Ladew
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Switch of Fate 3 is technically the fourth book in the Switch of Fate series, and probably the best to date.

Riot is a bad-boy with an attitude to match, well actually Riot has a bad-boy image that he uses to keep people from getting too close, and he hides his good side to everyone because he feels like he doesn't deserve to have his good side. Poor Riot has been a victim of family prejudice and rough treatment, everyone expecting him to be a bad-boy because he is a cat shifter, and he just can't seem to shake his own prejudice towards everyone after the way his family has treated him.

Riot has gotten involved in The Cause, but he won't be honest or upfront with anyone, and really goes about his business trying to make everyone think he is trouble when in reality he is the best guy out there. He's used this method to keep himself safe, but when his high school crush Gemma reenters his life, all bets are off.

Gemma has been the one person that has always believed in Riot, even if he didn't know it, and now she has a chance to show him what she can be to him, if she can get him to just put down his guard for long enough.

Gemma is the third switch to be discovered, and Riot does a great job of finding her and dropping her off with The Cause. She is also easy going and is able to fit into the life, finding things not as scary to deal with as Cora or Goldie, partly probably because she grew up in a military family and moved a lot and saw a lot of things, she is just more open and accepting of the realities. Gemma is also a wiz with language and is able to actually start understanding parts of the book.

What is awesome is that as she does, we hear from Anna, from the prequel, in this book by way of her journal entries in the Keepers Book. Now that there are three breath switches - it is time to make the coven a formal group and with that comes understanding and magic they had no clue about. Things are finally falling in place for The Cause and they are really becoming what they need to be.

I happened to like this book the best, I felt that Gemma was strong, independent and not as needy and clingy as Cora and Goldie, so she makes for a sharp contrast and the way that she just accepts things and moves on is awesome.

Now....I want to see more books. I have questions that need answered. Auntie needs to be figured out, and then there is the child in the mental ward, Jinelle Spencer, since the vampires are watching her, more needs to be said on her. I can't wait!

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