Review: All over the place
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
Normally I enjoy a little guilty escapism provided by Teasdale's work, but this was probably the weakest of his efforts.  While I accept that sometimes the author is going to shift perspectives from one character to another (not as much of a problem when the writing is in 3rd person perspective as it is for 1st person), but the author does it so often that it's hard to get any rhythm going.  The story bounces from Aneka's perspective to Ella's to Winter's to Ella's mom's girlfriend's to Winter's subordinate's to some starship captain's and so on and so forth.  There are times when it felt like the perspective was switching every few pages, making the reader have to keep bouncing around to remember what is happening.Also, there really is no good build in the action.  The first tenth of the book winds up being mostly irrelevant for the rest of the story, there are a couple of mini-adventures in the middle, and the overall plot wraps up rather weakly.  The whole thing felt like the author was trying to set something up for the "grand plan" of the entire series without making this particular book a solid piece of entertainment by itself.I did enjoy the development of Ella and Aneka's relationship and I'm certainly not going to give up on the series yet, but was just surprised at how disjointed and unfinished this effort felt compared to Teasdale's other works.