Review: Great Potential, Hard to Read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
Disclosure:  I received this book for free in exchange for my honest review.  My review contains no spoilers.When the book first started, I was hoping that I would be able to recommend it to some of my younger relatives who are into these sorts of books.  It had great potential and for the first six chapters or so, I was hooked.Then the reading became tedious.  I don't mind a few odd speech patterns in a book, but everyone spoke like it was the early 1800's, not just the witches or the people in their village.  Even the transplant, Eric, spoke like that... what modern day teen with a guitar speaks like it's the 1800's?The dialogue sounded fake and forced most of the time and I found myself dreading the characters having a conversation.  The prose began to suffer from the same issues as the odd dialogue and it became stilted and hard to read.  By the halfway point, I found myself losing desire to stick with it.I did and the ending was good and had I not been suffering from the weird, bizarre language issues, I might have grabbed the second just to find out what happened next.  If you don't mind odd language patterns, go ahead and give it a read.  For me, they were overwhelming and I just didn't enjoy the book as a result.