Review: Suffers from the same issues as Shimmerspell.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2012
This book suffers from the same problem as Shimmerspell. It's disjointed, the punctuation and grammar need some serious work, some of it simply doesn't make sense, and if I read another YA novel where the heroine seems to have goodlooking boys panting after her like flies on rotten meat I may scream. There are a few twists and turns that actually manage to make even less sense than those in the first novella, and I feel like there's no strange idea, rampant plot bunny or wild incongruity this author met that she doesn't enthusiastically include.However, as with its predecessor, I can't help thinking that, unlike many similar books I've read on Kindle, this isn't a complete loss.There are some great/interesting ideas in here. I've read Shimmerspell and Limerick, and while I'm not tempted to purchase the 3rd part of the trilogy unless I see it for free (I got these two when they were on offer) there's enough here that I can't help thinking there is a good book here trying really hard to get out. It fails to do so, but it's sure as heck trying! I found a lot of the teen-speak to be very realistic and often funny.This book isn't even near ready to be let out into the world at large, but I do very much feel that Spencer should keep on writing, improve her craft, and will then be able to rejig this at some point (some years and many thousands of words into the future, I'd say!) into a really engaging YA paranormal romance. It's far from perfect, but there's definitely much more potential here than in many similar underbaked efforts.I'd also add that while the grammar and punctuation are far from perfect, there is a notable improvement over the first book. Credit to the author for that.