Review: POV nightmare
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2012
There's good news and bad news when it comes to reading this book. The good first - the premise of the story is enjoyable and original.As previous reviewers have also stated - I found it difficult, especially in the beginning, to remember which of the four main character was which as they kind of blend together. The four big male characters (the four main characters are all female) were even more difficult to tell apart, but it didn't make much of a difference. For some people having relatively inter-changeable characters might be a big turn off but I didn't really have an issue with it. They were all reasonably likable (hence this part remains in the "good news" section).Now for the bad news - the POV switching in this book was awful. The main character named Cat gets the most story telling time but for most of the book MacDonald was switching from character to character every few lines. The worst part being that it was incredibly difficult to know whose POV it was sometimes until you were almost done reading that tiny section of that character's POV. There were quite a few times I had to stop and re-read or go back a bit because I got confused. I got better at it eventually, but still.Also, this book could really use an editor. Some type of symbol between paragraphs when switching the point of view would have been great because the line break that MacDonald used would often get lost when clicking between kindle pages. She also had a tendency to leave out words and a few times used words incorrectly.I still give this book three stars because I did really enjoy the plot, but the writing itself left much to be desired.*Review re-posted from goodreads.com