Review: Good read if...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2011
I was thrilled to receive a complimentary copy of both Tara Maya's books The Unfinished Song: Initiate and The Unfinished Song: Taboo when I chose to review Taboo.And it's a very good thing I received both rather than just Taboo or I would have been lost from the beginning.THE GOODI loved the premise of the story: tribes set against each other, a young man trying to overcome being exiled while securing peace, a young woman devastated at losing her dream who chooses to break a taboo rather than dance herself to death in a fairy ring.While Initiate was rather slow, with an abrupt ending, Taboo was a page turner. Before I knew it, the compelling characters drew me in until I simply had to find out what would happen to them. If Tara was attempting to imitate the fairies' irresistible invitations, then she accomplished her goal.THE BADAlthough Taboo doesn't have a lot of back story info dump, which makes transitioning from the first book in the series to the second book very easy, had I not read Initiate first I think I would have been hard pressed to understand what was happening in Taboo.Also, as with Initiate, Taboo has a very abrupt ending.Imagine Star Wars: A New Hope ending with the Death Star blowing up -- no Darth Vader in his ship careening away, no big medal of honor ceremony. That is, more or less, how both Initiate and Taboo end.The fact that both Initiate and Taboo have such abrupt endings, and that Taboo has very little back story included, makes me think this series was actually written as a single book, then chopped into segments.THE OVERALLI enjoyed both books, though I don't know if I'll continue reading the series. (I hate feeling sucked into a never-ending story.) I would, however, highly recommend The Unfinished Song: Initiate and The Unfinished Song: Taboo to anyone who doesn't mind downloading the next book immediately to find out what happens next.