Review: almost there
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
this was my second read of this book, which means it was good enough to make it worth re reading. Yet it lacked the 5 star quality of a really good book. About half way though I ran into the same believablility problem I had in the first reading.  I know it is a fantasy, but I still want the story to be possible. I don't care about spell checks, puntuation--obviously. I want the story to flow, which this one did. And I want it to be something that is logical in all aspects. this book is pure youthful ego. I was never sure what age the heroine was. She is described as a young girl, whose breasts are not mature. One who is overlooked as being a child. this is the main point in story as she is over looked as the Shadow of Death who is supposed to be a woman.  The author(s) seem to forget this and create a love interest for her, and give her logic and intuition of a 30 yr old. She is what 14? maybe. She has finished her training and should be an apprentice but instead she out thinks  everyone in her world.  oh wait. she is the only one in the world who uses intuition. Everyone else is stuck in logic. Hmmm. really? She has no experience in the world but suddenly understands how people are going to react in all situations.  The authors briefly say she has been trained to do understand people. they briefly say she has been trained to cut her emotions off ad live in the moment. they do not go into the backgroud of how this was done. they skim over her childhood. ie raised in a Spy/killer school. the levels of tainings are mentioned but nothing of relatinships with other children in the school. (a little harry potter would have been nice) Once on her own in the world, she attracts male attention. and soon  has a man that every woman wanted falling deeply in love with her. He is a one depth man, paper thin character. But then so are most of the characters in this book.  There is some attempt made to say the killing has affected her. Yet if she were truely raised in the killer school to be someone who  has no compassion, why does she have a conscious about it? In this book all the pieces just don't add up.  I also found the repeated girl goes out and over comes everyone over and over and over again to be a bit boring. I wanted the book to end about half way though,and perhaps the authors did too as it did end suddenly.  and yes the heroine gets the man.  Yet who wants a man who is "in Love" with a 14 yr old child? ....?  again the pieces don't add up.  This book missed being a great book by a few marks, yet is still a nice read it you have nothing else to do, or read