Review: Not entirely impressed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
To me this story was all over the place. One thing I believe many who read this genre can appreciate is the length, because to find a story that is almost three hundred pages of this content and this price can be hard to find. But the story itself is something else.Firstly, the story was a little hard to follow at times. I was able to get through it, but some things just did not make sense, in regards to order of occurrence, actions of the main character, etc. Also, there were multiple spelling as well as grammatical mistakes. They were not overly overbearing, but once I kept seeing some of the same errors happening, my eyes were on alert.When it comes to the heroine of the book, Olivia, she was confusing to me a bit, which did not make her entirely likable. Even though she is captured by monsters and "gifted" to one, it seems as if she were more agitated with the few humans that were there instead of the monsters. Some may think under the circumstances she may fear one over the other, but in this situation she had no power at all, but she still felt a way to the humans, and instead did not even think to try and associate with them, or try to level with them so they could see her as a human being as well, and feel sympathy for her.Also, a lot was just not explained for me. How did the few humans get there, and why would they stay? Where exactly were they? What was going on with the portals? Where did they get Olivia's constant inventory of clothing? Then the ending to me felt a little rushed, and which was where Olivia ultimately got on my nerves. I do not want to give it away, but there came a point where she could have been actual help, but all she did was yell and scream; she would not even move out of the way. And then Leo was something I did not expect, and was dramatically rushed.Overall it was ok if this is something you are into, but it could have definitely been structured better so it actually flowed, and emotionally and logically made sense; to me that was not the case.