Review: mindless fun but little too simplistic
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2012
This book falls into the Young Adult (YA) category. But adults can also read and enjoy. It is not deep, but is fun escapism and the bad guys lose.Xandra, the heroine is a teenage girl who turns 17 and suddenly finds out not only is magic real, she is a princess, extremely powerful witch/fairy/angel cross breed.Xandra's Aunt & brother are trapped in "hell". Only an Angel can enter and save them.  Luckily Xandra is part angel.  But after that the plot gets very obvious and you begin to doubt Xandra's intelligence as she misses clue after clue as to what is going on.  Finally she requires hints from another Angel before the light dawns on who are the bad guys.  Having a heroine this stupid turns me off and I have serious trouble empathizing.  But if you can suspend your disbelief and just go along it moves fast.  It could use a better proof reader as Kegan and Kallen seem to exchange names several times and similar overlooked typos.This book is very simple escapism, but that doesn't mean it can't be a mindless fun ride.  More juvenile than other books in this series, and the whole series is geared for tweens.