Review: Quick, but Enjoyable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2012
For the original review and more, please visit markedbybooks.blogspot.comOh, the cliff hangers! Why?! Why, B.K. Walker?! Why must you do this to me?! You give me a short 155 pages to get to know your characters and the world they live in, and then you take them all away from me! What would possess you to do such a thing? Where's your humanity? Your sense of compassion for the poor readers that so easily become attached to characters that don't really exist? Have you no heart?I obviously enjoyed this book, but I have to say, I didn't feel very satisfied with the ending. It just felt like an enormous stamp of "TO BE CONTINUED" was all that was missing to cement this fact. Yeah, I get that there's supposed to be another book (I hope), but there was absolutely no closure! You just shipped your characters off on a plane to a foreign land where I couldn't follow them. Literally.While this may not have been the most original book (even though now it's almost impossible to be), I still did enjoy it quite a bit. I thought that the characters were wonderful, especially Aunt Aingeal and Jared. And Buddha. No, not that Buddha, but he's still pretty awesome. And Irish.Probably my favorite piece of the novel was the mixing of different mythologies and stories together. The same paranormal creatures over and over can get a little monotonous at times, so I really enjoyed the addition of a few lesser known characters.The only complaint that I have with this book is that everything just seemed too rushed. Too many events were crammed into too few pages, and there was never any time for the reader to just relax and contemplate what had happened along with the characters. All of the relationships between them seemed too hurried and forced, like they were already lined up before they even met. I personally think that it takes some of the fun out of discovering things out for yourself if everything is just shoved at you so quickly.Once you get past that, though, and slow yourself down so that you can really get into the book, it really is very entertaining.Rating: 4 starsTaylorFor the original review and more, please visit markedbybooks.blogspot.com