Review: Quick fun read, but the romance was forced
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2012
It's no secret that I love Greek myth and endeavor to read any and all books covering the subject, so when I heard about Creating Fate, I jumped right on it. The concept of a series of three novellas called Unspun featuring the three Fates and their various love interests grabbed me and I immediately purchased myself a copy of this book and read it in one sitting. It wasn't exactly what I hoped for, but I didn't dislike it. It just wasn't developed enough for me, nor was it very believable romance-wise.In general, not much happened in terms of setting the reader up to believe that Chloe (the Fate goddess Clotho) and Dane (the love interest) could fall madly in love with each other in like, a day. I'm down with the love-at-first-sight fairytale business when it comes to romance novels as long as it's believable. For some reason, I didn't believe it. Maybe it was because at first Chloe wanted nothing to do with Dane because she was still mourning the death of her previous love, but in the course of a few hours, she was sleeping in the same bed with him, sans a single article of clothing. But to be fair, I have seen this done before in romance books and totally loved the fact that they cut the BS and got right to the romance. I know it would've worked here if the characters had been more developed and I had been more invested in what happened to them. But as it stands, I'm not.With that said, the cover was gorgeous and the writing and editing was very, very good. There was a little bit of humor, action and adventure, and you get to meet a few other Greek gods that you may be familiar with (I, of course, was). I wished I could've seen Chloe use more of her goddess powers, but she has two sisters, Lachesis and Atropos (who is my favorite Fate), so I'm sure I'll get my fill of mythical magic with their books. And yes, I'm reading the entire Unspun series. Creating Fate is definitely worth a read if you want something quick and romantic (though the romance seems forced). I'm interested to see what happens in Stealing Fate and Chasing Fate.