Review: Disappointed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2013
I'll start off by saying I'm an adult that enjoys the occasional YA paranormal Romance. I've read Twilight and the Mortal Instrument Series' and been found both thoroughly enjoyable.  After Mortal Instruments I wanted more books in the vein of Angels and Demons, etc...  So I thought I'd give this book a try.  I think the praise-worthy reviews must have set some high expectations in me, because I was extremely disappointed upon finishing this.I had a difficult time with the author's literary style.  I am reminded of my sixth grade english teacher drilling "Show don't tell" into my head like a mantra... and I cringed so many times at the terrible descriptive storytelling. I wish that the book had been written in the first person, because the author's best writing was in the prologue and epilogue (when she wrote from a first person point of view). The book was riddled with inexcusable grammar mistakes that were very distracting.The only thing that kept me going was Liam, because he was the only character I cared a shred for and the rest could have cared less about.  They all felt very shallow to me.  The plot was super predictable, and had so many parallels with Twilight that I couldn't help but be annoyed.The end was needlessly sad and depressing. It felt like the author wrote the end as she did for no other reason than she enjoys inflicting unnecessary pain on her heroine. I have never felt APATHETICALLY disappointed at the end of a book before, but that is the best way I can describe the feeling I had when I finished it.  I feel as if I've just lost 6 hours of my life reading this book (just to get THROUGH the damn thing) so I could move onto something else, and the least the author could have done was to give it some semblance of a satisfying ending as my reward for actually finishing it. But no, I don't even get that.  I can't say more without spoiling it.I will NOT be picking up the next book. I could honestly care less what happens to Ariel.