Review: A solid "meh"
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
I wanted to like this book as much as I liked the first one. I really, really did. The way it is written is very juvenile (moreso than the first one) and as a reader, it completely turned me off. As a teacher, I kept finding myself editing out the unnecessary and clumsy phrases, which is EXTREMELY distracting when you're reading for pleasure, not with a marking pen. I understand that it is a YA book but I've read other YA books- as an adult- that did not seem so very....... young. If the point of the storytelling was to illustrate just how immature Aric and Jade really are when exposed to the world they've been shut away from, great. **SPOILER** The scene where they consummate their relationship was just plain bad. No excuses.I definitely will NOT be purchasing the third book in this series when it becomes available. I'm just not interested in feeling like I'm grading papers and editing student stories. At best, it was better than reading the back of the cereal box; at worst, it was like reading a book written for a seventh grader by an eighth grader.