Review: Huh...that went nowhere fast...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2012
This was a short read, hence a novella. It sounded promising, as I was looking for a nice, romantic story, and I'm a sucker for medieval settings. Yet, I do not understand the other reviews after reading this. :/This story went nowhere for me. There was just nothing exciting. (Spoiler...I guess?) Twins meet twins. Twins fall in love. Twins play pranks. Someone gets sick. No one is happy. Then they get over it, and everyone's happy. I mean, I just saved you 30 minutes to an hour in those few sentences. There's zero adventure. The romance is barely tepid. It's overly dramatic, because I don't see how the reader can get into it in order to sympathize with a character.For me, when I was reading this, it felt like it translated from another language. The repetition of certain passages made the characters seem less dimensional. The dialogue didn't hold emotion for me. I just was not feeling the romance between these people. It all seemed second-hand and weird. The use of the word "naughty" and "saucy" also threw me off. It just didn't set well in this setting.Meh...it was free and an attempt at cute. I gave it two stars because it wasn't horrible; the editing for a freebie was done well. There could've been a good story if the characters had some kind of depth, but some authors can't pull that off in a novella. Are my expectations high for a novella? I don't think so. If someone is set to write a small story, make it an actual story with worthwhile plot. The kind of conflict that's supposed to set up the climax was lacking, even for a novella.