I don't know why I try to force myself to stick around for series. I've done it before -- not really liked a book but kept reading because, "Maybe it'll get better." No. It's just not for me, and that's okay. 
 Awaken is the third book in the Abandon trilogy, and the third book I started to read and could not finish. I love Meg Cabot (All-American Girl is SUCH a cute book!), but to me, Cabot's writing fits fourteen year old girls in high school in the modern era -- not Greek princesses in the Underworld. 
 *shrugs*