Review: I Missed the Emotional Connections...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2012
I attempted to read Blood Twist before reading Fate Fixed simply because of time. That was a bad idea. While there's a lot of backstory in the front end of Blood Twist that should get a reader caught up, it ended up just really dragging the story down. I found myself skipping all kinds of information and by the time I got to the story, I had no idea who anyone was.So...I went to the first book, Fate Fixed.Here, we're immediately hit with more backstory. It felt a little like reading a history book with a narrative that was more fun than a historian would normally write. I told myself, "Self, there are all these really great reviews for this book. Just get past the backstory and the story will be fantasmic.And it was!!I understand as an author that the backstory usually has to happen. For the author. But then after it's all figured out, there's usually a lot of it, if not all of it, that gets deleted in the edits. Why? Because there are many people who don't want to read through a history lesson to get to the story.This story, once we got there, was GOOD! It was very Twighlight, but in all the right ways. I didn't want to throw the book. The love story is very compelling, the characters are people I could relate to, and the plot is interesting.I found Lexie to be even keeled, which is good. I don't need heroines who are being overly dramatic for the sake of being overly dramatic. So Lexie, to me, was perfect! However, the pull between her and Torin seemed rushed to me. Maybe I've just completely forgotten what it feels like to be that young, but I think something was missed in the delivery. It wasn't anything major. It was the careful nuances, a tweak of a sentence here and there.The main structural elements were all in place. Good setting. Strong, likeable characters. Well-paced plot. But for me, there was just...something lacking. I'm not entirely sure what that was. It's so hard for me to put my finger on it, especially when my biggest gripe/complaint had to do with the first chapter. Seriously, that big rant about backstory? First chapter.So...let's move back to the second book. Fate Fixed got a "Meh! It was good. I'd read book 2." Let's see what Blood Twist gets from me.I received a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.