Review: okay not great
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2013
I bought these because I had enjoyed Wrede's Dealing with Dragons series so much. But these earlier works just didn't click for me. In just about every book, I found the main character to be hard to connect to and just a bit whiny. I'm all about a female heroine coming into her own, but these girls never managed the type of transformation I was hoping for. I also felt that it took a long time for things to happen; days would pass and the story won't have progressed very far. I did enjoy Caught in Crystal for the simple fact that the heroine was an older woman who had seen her glory days and was now a single mother to two; when her past re-emerges, she has her family to consider. I loved that, since most of the time these type of books are about teenagers or new adults.