Review: A great start and good introduction to new authors!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
I only gave it four stars because I only liked half the stories in this set. There was one story that, as many times as I started reading it, I stopped. Eventually, I just skipped over it and was much happier than I was attempting to slog through it.Most of them, however, did exactly as they were intended and prompted me to purchase their sequels.The Unfinished Song captivated me enough, caught my sympathy enough, that I purchased the next two books.War of the Fae: The Changelings was verrrrry good. The characters were likable and believable. The premise was enough that I wanted to continue reading even though some parts were a little thin.Fairy Metal Thunder.... Is it possible to really just want the main character to be caught and punished? That's how I felt.Feyland: The Dark Realm was a great read about a teenage girl, a computer game, and a teenage boy..... The names made the story seem predictable, though.Ever Shade..... I just couldn't..... The writing in this was so incredibly bad. I wanted to take out a red pen every time I started reading. I wanted to sit down and have a conference with the writer the way I would with a student about their work. There was something about the author's style that completely turned me off from the story. I even skipped around, trying to just jump in in the middle, give myself to shoot for when I would start over...... When I found myself consistently choosing to read other books, I gave up. This was just not the story for me.Overall, 5 out 6 isn't bad at all and I'm waiting to follow up on some of the other sequels!