Review: I Tried
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
I really tried to get though this book. However, I could only get through about 35% before I gave up.This book never seems to go anywhere. I was really looking forward to reading about Susah becoming a dragoneer, and about Noah's Flood. But it takes forever to get to that (if it even gets to the Flood...) The story just never seems to develop. There's way too much about Susah's ability to talk to animals and the shopping trip, and not enough about the meat of the plot.The characters are cardboard cutouts. Lilith could have been any Disney Evil Queen (tm). She's so over-the-top as to be ridiculous. Susah's family never develop as people; they are just there.I knew this was a biblical story before I got the book, so I was prepared for that. The biblical references came across heavy-handed, but that was bearable. I did not give up on the book because of the biblical references.