Review: Interesting Enough To Read More
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 13, 2011
For the people complaining about it's length, it's a prequel, not a short story, novella or book. It's a teaser to make you want to learn more about the characters in the actual book. In that respect it does it's job admirably. I didn't know when downloading it that it was A. Steampunk and B. A teen-geared story. Now that I do know however I have no complaints. I'm no book snob and enjoy different genres. It was a light, fun read and Finley Jayne was very likeable, as was the woman who employed her (sorry, I can't remember her name) the daughter a little less so but even she wasn't too bad. The characters are very well done for such a short story Kady Cross really imbued them with life. It did have a few typos so I had to take one star away. I noticed a few dialog anachronisms but I could not tell if they were intentional or unintentional. Besides, unless it's horribly, laughably done  realize that to a contemporary speaker and writer it's very hard to sound authentically period. The highlight of the story was Finley Jayne. As I said she was very likeable and funny. Definitely different than a lot of other teen "heroines" (and I use that term very loosely to describe some girl teens in books gagTwilightgag). I will definitely be checking out the full-length book. Even if only to find out what the hell Finley is.