Review: What. The. Hell?!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2011
I just lost 6 hours of my life that perhaps would have been better spent repeatedly smacking my head into a brick wall or getting a rusty drill, anesthetic free root canal from Orin Scrivello. The first book was OK, the writing wasn't great but the story made it worth the continued read. This one, oh dear god. Raea spends the entire book vacillating between rhapsodising about Elis' eyes, hair, touch, smell etc, and having debates in her head about who is/may be/probably double crossing her. Elis spends the whole time, literally, in tears. It went something like this. This reminds me of Elis, oh I miss him, oh if only I had paid attention, oh I can't wait to feel his arms around me, oh if only I could have realised earlier that I love him. Rinse repeat. Over and over and over and....you get the point. And that wasn't the only bit of repetition, we get told the same exact thing again and again, seriously, I counted at least four places where the same paragraph imparts the same information, almost verbatim. And what is with this girl and slapping people in the face? She's a little slap happy. The only interesting thing about this book was that it introduced us to Inar'Ahben but only in the most basic sense. Quite a horrid little exercise in frustration this one, I suggest you move along as there's very little to see here.