Review: A waste of 30 minutes of my life
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2012
What was this about? What were the assignments? How do they help to keep the balance between the bad and good fairies? Who are these Dark and Light fairies? How are Nordic Fairies differ from regular ones? If Viggo and Svala stayed together for decades at the time, why are they only talking about marriage now? The thought never crossed their mind in all of the 900 years? Why is being a celebrity bad and immediately sets off red flags, and makes Svala stalk Viggo? Did he violate the rules somehow? Then HOW? And for crying out loud, what are the rules exactly? And if they are supposed to stay away from each other, then how do they have the secret hand motion, which came especially useful when he ran for office? Was he running for office as an assignment, or was it after they completed whatever they needed to complete and finally got together? Oh, and finally, what's Svala's assignment now? Is she even working on one?Love story had no substance, the characters were not developed and the timeline jumped all over the place. I had a lot of questions and was not sure what was happening after the first few pages, forget about the ending where I just went HUH?! Where was the world building again?The last straw was when I read this line: "Outside, people hurried past with their suit cases and paper cups, missing the whole point of living". Mind you, here Svala is sitting at some New York cafe with a cappuccino in her hand, looking out the window. So what's the point of living? Sit and drink coffee at an overpriced cafes and look down your nose at people who have to... I don't know, work?  The "point of living" was never explained, so I can only draw my own conclusions.I understand that this is a novella, but really why create this (supposedly) complex world and story and then not explain anything? If there are not enough pages to write everything to make it clear, then maybe Sara Berg needs to re-think what she wants to write.