Review: 3.5
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
Even having finished this book, I'm undecided about how I feel about it. There seems to be an interesting plot developing. It's well written. The dialogue seems natural and it flows fine. Though there are a few editing issues, most notably a whole passage that seems to have been pasted in twice.But...BUT I hated the wimpy coward Quinn was portrayed as, even while she was supposed to be a prophesied saviour. It made her feel inept, like she couldn't do anything unless there was a man there forcing her to do the right thing (the thing she wanted to do, but couldn't on her own). Meh, that SOOOO doesn't do it for me. Though, in fairness, I'll give it props for being a little more realistic than the heroine who fearlessly rushes into danger.I also didn't feel like I got to know any of the characters very well...at all. The reader isn't given any opportunity to learn about them, their past, or their personality, especially Bres and Luke. They are essentially characterless. Thus, Quinn's eenie-meenie-minie-moe routine between the two elicited no emotion from me. I didn't care who she chose, as I knew neither one of them.I was a bit bothered by the fact that she was suddenly 'with' Luke and determined to stay loyal, when I couldn't say when they made any sort of commitment to one another. A kiss is the most they shared. Further, she just seemed to gravitate toward whichever man she was physically nearest at the time, as if she had no actual volition of her own. All of this with no real, definitive explanation beyond, 'the prophesy says it's so.'Similarly, since I didn't feel like I knew any of the characters I didn't feel like I really grasped why anyone did anything and therefore the plot felt a bit like a group of random people running about doing random things. Now, I'm not calling it plotless, far from. But you just never really know anything anymore than you know anyone...if that makes sense. If I didn't have a basic understanding of light and dark fae I probably wouldn't have even understood the plot in to begin with.I'm also a bit confused about the intended audience. Quinn is 25. I'm not under the impression that this is supposed to be a YA book/series, but at times it felt very much like it is. Things like a kiss being given enormous importance or juvenile questions like, "Do you want to be my boyfriend?" Wha...what? Really?Lastly (and this is a complaint I seem to make a lot lately), I don't understand why it's broken up. This is not a stand alone book, but as each is only ~150 pages, there is plenty of room for them to be comfortably combined.All in all, despite my apparent negativity, it's an interesting (if rushed) start to the series, but I won't really know what I feel about it until I see how the series comes together. On its own, all it is is an interesting beginning and, honestly, that's not really enough.