Review: Better than the first 3 BUT
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2011
FIRST OFF I AM GOING TO POINT OUT THAT I AM NOT A 'FRIEND' OF ELIZABETH LIKE MOST OF THESE OTHER PEOPLE MUST BE AND I DO NOT FOLLOW HER DAY TO DAY LIFE ON HER FACEBOOK PAGE AS MOST OF THESE REVIEWERS MUST SO WITH THAT SAID, MY REVIEW IS HONEST AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT I REALLY DON'T CARE!! These reviews are meant to be honest so people don't waste their hard earned money and valuable time reading something that isn't worth their time or money!SO - now on to a real review: just as I had expected, with time the author has gotten better with her story. There was more detail and the dialog flowed much better than the past 3.  There was no jumping from place to place every other paragraph. The author used great adjectives to describe the surroundings. I was able to actually get somewhat lost in this book HOWEVER this time she drug on too much.  I found myself skipping through pages because it would drag....on and on and on and on. OK - I get that the light was so bright that it took minuets to adjust and the scent was so new and fresh after being underground for years - but after a page, lets move on. Get to the story line. There is a fine line between knowing how to write good and thinking or wanting to write well, this author just doesn't seem to be able to get on that line.The setting is still in the 1800's I am guessing, being that the women still wear the corsets and such yet reading this book it almost seems futuristic. The dialog again is not right for the 19Th century.  The hero was quite obviously the hero with massive amounts of magic to make everything work to his advantage. So once again, no real surprise...the bad guy might get a foot ahead but Cain was right there with his 'mind speak' and he would have another super magical powerful being there to save the day. There were parts where you would jump from Cain (the main character of the book) to an.other character (Katarina) and that got confusing. The whole feel of the book was completely different from the last 3 being from Katarina's perspective then this one your all of a sudden with a whole new character who was bad but all of a sudden has a change of heart because why??? He has strong feelings for Katarina. Da-da-dammm Big shocker there! Guess where that's gonna lead now that Kat's "true love" is now turning evil? NO! She's gonna run off with the once evil half brother! WHAT?! Wonder what the Vegas odds are on that one?All in all - the writing is getting better. Still needs to find that right balance. I'd rather have to skip through a few pages to get back to the point rather than the author just have fast forward on throughout the whole book.  I don't like the predictability! I don't like how the setting doesn't fit well with the dialog and background.  I do like the characters however they are too predicable! They are all so 'magical' they might as well be God-like.Obviously I did not get paid for this review since it's not oozing with praise and I did not and will not receive a free signed book for submitting my review. boo! However, I will continue to write HONEST reviews on any and all books that I see fit because I am tired of people writing false praise - I would of NEVER started this series had people been HONEST and forthright with their reviews and the author hadn't been pushing for fans to write reviews to get the 'bad' reviews off the front page. Shameful!