Review: Interesting Story...P-A-I-N-F-U-L Dialogue...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2013
While I liked the actual plot and story-line of this book, I couldn't STAND the two main characters. I realize these books are being marketed to a younger audience...Tweens & Teens, but the banter between Alice and Loki was consistently cringe-worthy and unnecessarily dramatic.And Loki? Really? Is the author NOT familiar with Thor or the Avengers? He couldn't possibly find ANY other name for his lead male? Every. Single. Time. I read the name 'Loki', I pictured a snarky, bratty brother wearing horned headgear...very distracting.Overall, I'm just not sure about this one. I loved Snow White Blood Red, and I loved the heart of this story...the part about Bianca, the Glassblowers and Cinderella. But sifting through the obnoxious back-and-fourth dialogue between the two leads is almost not worth it to find out what becomes of Cinderella. I'll download the sample of the full novel once it's released, and hope that he's smoothed things out. Otherwise...I just can't do it. A full novel of those two and their cheesy lines? No thanks.