Trilogy

I am an avid reader. My favorite is young adult fiction. It's an easy read but it still has a good story. I went to Barnes and Noble a while ago and saw this trilogy that is clearly a love story (Perfect Chemisty, Rules of Attraction, and Chain Reaction). I am ashamed to admit it, but I love romances. I get sucked into the story line and it almost always has a happy ending. I thought the cover looked like it was decent, so I bought all three books.

I read the first one, shed some tears, and enjoyed the ending. The story goes like this: A punk Latino boy is in a gang and lives on the bad side of town. Through some random events, he associates with a rich girl and they immediately don't like each other. They keep running into one another and eventually their hatred turns into love. They are inseparable. She hates that he is in a gang, so he has to risk his life by getting jumped to break out of the gang during the scuffle a supporting character gets shot. Then they live happily ever after.

 I eagerly started the second book anticipating a roller coaster of emotions and a developing story of the characters in the first book. The story starts of with a punk Latino boy who is in a gang and lives on the bad side of town. Through some random events . . . Wait a minute. "This is exactly the same" I thought. I kept reading just to be optimistic. No luck. 

"Well", I thought, "maybe the third book will be really good. I bought it so I might as well read it." Literally, it was exactly the same as the first two, but the characters in each book have different names. Is that even legal? There must be some type of copyright infringement policy on your own work, right? 

On the bright side, at least I'll never forget the story line, since I read it three times.