Review: Average tale for Niall, too much sex spoils an otherwise good story.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
After reading Ugly I decided to finally risk picking up this series.  I felt that Niall's first series Thaumatology started to get a bit too juvenile after a while, and had always worried that this tale would end up being too much about the sex and not enough about the character.....Sadly, that's exactly what I feel I found.  The idea here is excellent and the main character Aneka is actually fairly well realized as a concept and a character.  The plot twists were a bit silly at times, but they fit the universe that Niall was trying to create.If only he could have kept the sex out of this story I'd easily give it four stars, but sadly that is where the story really gets dragged down.  There's just too much sex.  It's not the sex you might find in a "erotic" tale where the author tries to describe every touch and grunt, but the characters all seem obsessed with it and more than a few orgies are mentioned or even briefly described.  I found them boring, and felt they actually took away from the plot and characters, especially Aneka's friends who sometimes seemed to be there just to have sex with her and to say dumb things that help her realize what is happening.It's not a bad tale, but I couldn't really get into it.