Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 A Pound of Flesh is a pretty recent release, so I remember it being talked about a lot on Twitter. I've had a string of stressful traveling and family issues hit me at once, so of course I had to engage in a little retail book therapy and picked this puppy up. A heroine teaching literature classes to prisoners and a criminal hero who has some sort of connection to the murder of the heroine's father? Sounds angsty and right up my alley. 
 This book took me on a rollercoaster. At any given time, I wasn't too sure if I loved it or hated it. 
 In my opinion, there was really no main conflict. Kat immediately accepts Carter's role on the day her father was murdered. It's not much of a big reveal since it happens before the first half of the book, if I remember correctly. Carter is also part of a very wealthy family, though some of his relatives are hoping to push him out of his inheritance. You'd think that would be an issue too, like this guy who is a criminal is secretly a billionaire. But nope. What about the awful family trying to screw him over? Surely, they might interested in using his relationship with his tutor to get what they want. BUT NOPE. 
 Also, his family is in cahoots with some pretty shady individuals, who might be dangerous to Kat and Carter. Perhaps they could cause some trouble with their seemingly carefree relationship. 
 BUT NOOOOOOPPPPPEEEE. 
 The premise is truly what sold me, especially Kat and Carter's early antagonist relationship, but that momentum came to a screeching halt. The action keeps getting set up to cause our couple grief - the death of Kat's father, the secret of their student/teacher relationship, Carter's family, their "class differences" - but nothing is ever done with these. They're just kind of spoken into existence, and I wind up skimming the last quarter of the book. 
 There's only so many "I need yous" a girl can take. I was expecting action and drama, and I just got a whole lot of sappy confessions and shitty relatives. It's boring and a lot of the scenes seem more befitting of a young adult novel. 
 - Amanda