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Book Review of Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction
Author: Simone Elkeles
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
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This is the third and final book in the Perfect Chemistry series. There has been some buzz around a fourth book, but I was unable to find a solid release date for that. This was my least favorite book of the Perfect Chemistry series. I felt like Luis and Nikki didn't really have much in common and were a lot more insta-love than the other books in this series.

I also thought that for Luis being so smart he was making some really bad decisions. He didn't even really have the pressure on him to make those bad decisions that his brother Alex had. The whole story seemed a bit forced. Additionally, the whole 26 years later Epilogue was a bit hokey and unnecessary.

The above being said this was still a very good book; I just really loved the first two books and found this one to be somewhat disappointing. This book was an easy and engaging read and the story sucked me right in. I finished it in a couple hours.

Overall, while this was still a very engaging and easy to read YA contemporary romance, it was not nearly as good as previous books in this series. If a fourth book does finally come out, I probably won't read it. I don't read a lot of contemporary YA romance and I felt like the series has started slipping a bit.