Review: Best one yet!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2012
I was pretty excited when Elemental Shining came out because I think, of all Maddy Edwards books, I like the characters in Paranormal Public the best. I care about what happens to Charlotte, Sip, Lisabelle, and Lough. I enjoy the opportunity for Keller to prove once again that he has no flaws. And it's always especially exciting to see what new characters will turn up in this book. And we get lots of new and interesting characters this time - a fallen angel girl as perfect as Keller, a pair of half-vampire, half-darkness mage twins who give whole new meaning to weird and creepy, and a new professor who always seemed kind of shady to me. The plot was also very engaging, with a mysterious attacker and an ever-encroaching demon threat. I think all in all, Elemental Shining is Maddy Edwards's best book so far.But of course I cannot write a review without also pointing out what I didn't like about the book. The biggest thing was that I didn't understand why Charlotte was suddenly so bad at everything. I thought we had established in her freshman year that while she didn't know a lot about being an elemental, she was pretty powerful and a force to be reckoned with. But in Elemental Shining, she, well, isn't shining. I also got confused about the flow of time in the novel. A very large portion of the novel seems to take place during the first week of school, and I wasn't quite sure what day we were on. And finally, there was a dream scene near the beginning of the novel that didn't have anything to do with anything else.All in all, though, I was very pleased with this latest installment of Paranormal Public, and I look forward to the next one.