Review: Why don't I learn my lesson?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2012
I have enjoyed the first three full books in Danika Dark's Mageri series, although I thought the third was a tad wimpy. This shorter book, however, delves so deeply into gothic romance talk that I couldn't finish it. Within the first few chapters I'd been inundated with just how attractive the main characters are - in so many different ways I was pretty sure that Ms Dark kept a thesaurus on retainer. And the various smarmy statements, OMG! "After all, it wasn't his hand that most women wanted to hold."Ms Dark also didn't make full use of an editorial reader this time around. Her narrative varies from present to past tense indiscriminately, and her paragraphs introduce multiple topics that don't relate. In a paragraph describing the main character's extended lifespan, she writes, "...It was great to dip into the fountain of youth and not age as quickly as all the humans around him. He watched his favorite bands at the local dive, played pool, and had no desire to become the man his father was." What?? Where did the stuff about bands, pool, and his father come in?Ever so sorry, Ms Dark, but this one is a stinker. And I should get a sample first, even if I've enjoyed the writer in the past.