Review: Lost me at 8%
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
It was only 8% in to the book when I said to myself "You have to be kidding me."  It's something that has turned into arunning joke in this series.  Elise doing something foolish, bright lights, and her exit from the story.  This is a real problem for me.  Because Elise is the character I want to read about.  Rylie, Abel, Seth, and the rest of that group are good support characters but I don't want to read about them.  They aren't as interesting or compelling as Elise.  Yet the author seems to hate putting and sort of focus on Eliese.  He'll the first 25% is set up and that doesn't involve Eliese.  Thankfully I bought this book on sale because I would have been mad to pay full price.Every time the story gets interesting the author jumps to an unrelated point.  Though if your looking to buy this book you are well aware of how this author writes a story.  I find myself skipping through pages looking for the story to get interesting again.The Eliese and James soap opera continues.  In the first series I liked James.  Until he showed his true nature.  Now James is just cheesy.  Like a bad magical James Bond villain.  He's smarter than everybody.  Ahead of everybody.  And seemingly the most powerful being in excistance.  Eliese is never going to forgive him and she shouldn't.  Not after what he did.  So do something to move the story beyond the sameold same old it is now.  Especially Eliese all weak because she starves herself.  It feels like every book that Eliese gets bombarded with light and she wonders why she's so weak until she eats a group at the end.  Eliese isn't this dumb.It really does pick up at the end.  Everything comes together as well as you could expect.  It was a climactic end but I didn't particularly like it.  It was confusing and after 2 books I have no idea why it's the ascension series.  Book 3 is on sale right now so I will give it a try.  I'm hesitant to continue after that.  There's too much that make me shakes my head.