Book Review: "Back In Black (The A-List #5)"

One would imagine that a book about Sin City, Las Vegas, wouldn't be anything but exciting. Much as the city is that of broken dreams, this book leaves much to be desired. Zoey Dean's 5th novel in the A-List series takes all her best well-known characters to Las Vegas for a little senior year debauchery. Most of the kids had either gone before or had been looking forward to this trip since their freshman year and all have high hopes for this trip. But just as in real life, things rarely go as planned. This becomes a real comedy of errors in which just about anything that could go wrong, does go wrong. Parker blows all his cash within the first few minutes of their trip on a slot machine and on the last pull, wins $20,000...only to find that his fake ID gets discovered and they fine him for having it. This is the first of increasingly worsening follies that happen across the board for the entire trip, which is declared a bust. The book does have a twist ending, and definitely leaves itself up in the air for the next book in the series to pick up from.

Still, this book just feels like something's missing. I can't put my finger on what, but the story itself isn't all that engaging this time around. Hopefully this is not a sign of how the rest of the series carries on. I'm going to only rate this book a 4 out of 5 stars.