User blog comment:RainbowDashLover4Ever/High School Story Book 3/@comment-3452092-20180121032344/@comment-35158873-20180121211831

I can get that.

I wasn't into Brian as much, but I understand why others could. It did help that whether or not you chose to have Caleb accept his apology, he still could not be friends with him again at that point, which did make his relationship with Brian more interesting. Zoe was a worse character, I can agree. Though Caleb is still my least favorite LI in the book seires. In book 1, the main conflict was Brian's actions, which meant more to Caleb than the other characters. Caleb just didn't seem to have much of a character. Even Aiden, who probably had the least impact of the first book, had much more character and still had a conflict of his own. Plus, while this is in the beginning of the first book, I am not a fan of characters being friends with jerks while trying to defend them. I can agree that Caleb did get better at the last half of book 2.

I do feel that with Brian and the other students, there is potential in bringing an interesting conflict for the third book.

I still like book 2, but they could have improved on it. I liked the concept of Isa being the main antagonist, especially since she was first shown in book 1. But they could have pushed her character. This was probably most evident in chapter 13, where I thought capturing Isa would have taken longer to do. I would have loved to have a scene where she threatened to hurt your LI, which would have been clever once you remembered she wrote that your mc and their LI were very close. It could have been tense and there could've been a countdown on how to save them, which could improve your relationship. This could have worked if the roles were reversed to. Her manipulation and insight on the students could have given her more of an advantage, which would have been much more interesting when you and the other students stand up to her. But running around the school seemed kind of lame. I would've expected her to think of a better plan for a situation that was likely to happen anyway. I didn't really care enough to want Ms. Hughes back though.