Review: Sadly, Not Enchanted Enough
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2013
I have to say that I purchased this novel (first in a trilogy), after reading the short synopsis.After the first few pages, I was left wondering who was doing what and when. The rambling and extensive over-use of adverbs in every sentence made it incredibly had to follow. Thrown from the Introduction into what I think was Chapter One, I tried, I REALLY tried to follow the story. But when it takes an author over three pages to describe the main character sitting in a bar, looking brooding and melancholy, I lost focus on the story.Further, the female protagonist was given the same over-descriptive treatment of essentially, a character I didn't really like. The overall dragging out of even small situations, and then short bursts of clipped dialogue and activity, kind of left me feeling a bit giddy.Before writing this I gave it one final shot - only to find myself flipping through the pages like a magazine.I won't go as far as to say I hated it, but I'm sorry to say I won't be wasting any more time with it.