Book Review: Mile High (Up in the Air Series #2)

Mile High is book two of the Up in the Air trilogy.  I hate to say it, but it was a dissappointment.  Why?  Because NOTHING HAPPENED.  

SPOILERS FOR BOOK ONE AHEAD.

Book one ended on a bang, literally.  Bianca’s father had found her and had physically assaulted her.  Badly.  As a warning not to go to the police about him killing her mother.  The book ended with Bianca blacking out.  Book two opens without any of the drama.  Bianca is fine.  She’s in the hospital but she’s fine.  James is a mess but Bianca needs space… for a chapter or two maybe?  Then the rest is just sex and Bianca questioning the relationship despite Jame’s continual and overt statements that she is different and special and that he can’t live without her.  She is obtuse and it’s irritating because Bianca is too smart to be so dense.  I would have preferred if she heard him but simply wasn’t at a place of trust with him that allowed her to believe him rather than making things up in her head.  I actually think this was the authors intention, but it never manifested on the page.  Instead, Bianca came across dense and irritating.  For example, James takes Bianca to Montana and she states multiple times that she has no clothes for the trip and he states multiple times that he has taken care of it and for her not to worry.  But when she gets to his Montana house and finds a closet full of clothes she is upset because she assumes that they are another woman’s clothes.    

Next is the sex.  This is a problem I have with the series in general, but can a book have too much sex? I think yes.  Don’t get me wrong, I love steamy sex.  But it needs to be realistic and dear lord James keeps asking if Bianca is sore from all the sex and I’m pretty sure that a person with no nerve endings downstairs would be sore, but not our Bianca.  Insert eye roll here.  Did I mention she still comes on command?  My biggest issue with the sex is that ultimately, it detracts from each book.  There are probably 25 pages of plot in each book and 150 pages of sex, when I think it should be the opposite.  Also, sex should be used to further the plot, and it doesn’t do that in this book.      

Finally, it ends on another cliffhanger.   So let’s get on to my review of book three, Grounded, which you can read here.