Review: Excellent Book, Great Characters
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2012
I found this book through my Indie Authors connections via my @krautgrrl Twitter account. J'adore Lili! She is so naive, the book moved along quickly and I finished it in less than five hours total; which means it's YA to me. The vocab, the plot line, it's all just too easy, so you can rapidly read through it. I did notice some typos, but for an Indie book, not enough to care about all that much.Lili is 120 years old, even though they keep saying she is 100 years old, she is 120. 20 years for tutelage and 100 years of "Sin Eating." Lili tries to be normal, she doesn't age, but besides Sin Eaters acting like priests we really don't know much about what a Sin Eater does, which was disappointing. Additionally disappointing was the fast-paced action that then turned into this "Once Upon A Time in Fairy Tale Land" ending. The ending, with Lili being whisked off her feet but her original tutor and patron that taught her how to be a Sin Eater was disappointing to say the least. It was too predictable, and a tad bit boring.That being said, small things annoyed me. For one, if you live in LA you normally don't have a mobile that you then can use in Ireland. And since Lili hasn't been practicing Sin Eating for awhile, it was confusing why she stopped working at the library and walked off with her former playmate from years ago and trusted him so implicitly. For 120 years old, she sure seems gullible and naive. Those complaints aside, being that it was a cheap, quick, well-written story is reason enough to find out about Lili and as much as you can about Sin Eaters. Fortunato's new book doesn't hit until 2013, and I'll, hopefully, still want to read the next one when it comes out in a year.There are poignant moments, such as her visiting patron at the library, an elderly gentleman who then dies, and before his death remembers Lili during WWII.It's a good book, besides my various complaints and I have my husband @derkrautboy reading it now. She has some great one liners and her cat is cool. So Lili gets a thumbs up from @krautgrrl.