Addicted (Ethan Frost #2)

First, of all I am going to going to get on my soapbox. I bought these books. I am flabbergasted that a highly published author could have so many inconsistent character traits in the first two books alone! I have seen reviews and that ARC readers have received a free copy to post their opinion but sure did not help Tracy Wolff out nor did Random House and it’s editor. The errors took so much away from the story.

Here’s my issues between Ruined and Addicted
In Ruined book Chloe had Red hair and in Addicted she had blonde hair. I have read the next book Exposed and it still continues to change to strawberry blonde.
In Ruined, Tracy Wolff made a huge point in the story that Chloe was a car buff. She is able to identify cars by makes/model and even able to repair her own car. It is interesting to note that Chloe has a Mini Cooper made by BMW in Ruined but she has a Honda in the second book. She never sold her car.
In Ruined, Ethan is a billionaire. In Addicted he is referred to as only as a Millionaire. He never went broke. Geez!
In Ruined, Chloe went to the private school when she was a Sophomore. In, Addicted Chloe went to private school when she was a Freshman. The time line here is so off.
To boot, the only time that you hear anything from Ethan’s point of view is during the Epilogue. The Epilogue should has been the end of the series. The next book is truly written from Ethan’s POV and is so much better but you already know how it will turn out after the twists and turns. I have no idea why the first two books are not called Chloe instead of Ethan. I guess the image of Ethan on the cover would sell more books.
Due to the multitude of inconsistent character traits, I found it to take away for the story as a whole. It’s a real shame. That is why I rated this a 2. I wanted to rated it a one but I felt the story had some redeeming qualities that make it okay! My advices to Tracy Wolff is to get a new editor.

Ethan and Chloe ride a rollercoaster of emotions Chloe’s past is shoved in her face. Learning Ethan’s secret fuels Chloe’s anger, devastation and mistrust. Numb from events they both struggle through working, sleeping and living. Their reunite until Ethan’s mother pays a visit and viciously informs Chloe of yet another of Ethan’s secrets. Chloe leaves but only after telling Ethan she loves him but can’t be with him anymore because he’s never really trusted her. If he had he would have told her the truth instead of covering it up in the name of protecting her. Ethan bares his soul to Chloe finally revealing the reasoning behind all his actions and begs her forgiveness. She’s his obsession and he’s her addiction but will they be able to stay together with all the forces working against them?

this book really lost me from almost the beginning when they re-connect by hooking up outside a posh restaurant, up against the wall – during a summer storm – and have full on sex while his executive team, lawyers & other employees as well as the executives from the company he just took over, are waiting for them to return and have dinner. like, clothes ripped off, happens to have a condom in his pocket even though they haven’t seen each other in weeks, shirts off, pants around ankles of both their suits, sex.

chloe is the always victim. it becomes tiresome. ethan is a push over and not very alpha. a stern tone here or a dark look there doesn’t mean he’s commanding and in charge. the constant i love you i hate you i love you got so boring. as did the pages and pages of chloe’s repetitive inner thoughts. a bunch of i love you’s and constant sex does not a relationship make.

i just feel like the author is dragging this out and the story is already suffering for it. i can’t imagine 2 more books of this. and her lack of attention to detail – in her own story – is autricious. it’s like she doesn’t remember the details she wrote in her own books.

Addicted is the second book in the Ethan Frost series by Tracy Wolff. The first book ended with a big cliffhanger, so I was glad to see that this book started where the last book left off. Chloe finds out that Ethan is linked to her painful past. Now, being around Ethan is constantly reminding Chloe of her past.

I really felt bad for Ethan in this book. He is such a genuinely great guy. He finally finds a woman that wants him for him, not his money. I think that Ethan had a lot of blame placed on him that he didn’t deserve. Chloe was very frustrating to me in this book. She kept going back and forth between wanting to be with him and not wanting to be with him. She also kept going on about how broken she was and kept feeling sorry for herself. She crushes Ethan’s heart and leaves him, yet gets mad that he keeps his distance from her.

The chemistry was still there between Chloe and Ethan, so this book was just as steamy as the first. We finally get a happy ending, but I thought that things were wrapped up a little too quickly. And then there are a few inconsistencies between this book at the first the biggest being Chloe’s hair color. In the first book she has red curly hair. In this book she is blonde. There are no explanations for that.

There were a few things in the storyline that weren’t completely wrapped up, so I’m curious to see how it will all play out in the next book. I would also like to know more about Chloe’s roommate, Tori I’d love to see her have her own story.

This is the second book in the chloe and ethan set. It was great but.. chloe was described as being a curly red head with freckles but towards the end of the book twice Ethan frost says “her blonde hair falls across her face” and in the epilogue he again says “head down, long blonde hair blowing in the wind”
Also Tori has chloe help her to dye her hair like a rainbow but when they go shopping its just bright pink. It seems the author nor the editor noticed, maybe its no big deal, but when the author doesn’t use the same repetitive descriptions of her characters she gets them wrong.

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