Review: Great Start to a Promising Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
Eden Forest is a good start to a promising trilogy. Sarajane, raised in the mortal world, is unaware she has immortal blood until she is kidnapped and taken to Saskia, a parallel universe, where her origins and powers are revealed, along with her supposed destiny, to save that world.You'll find all the standard characters you'd expect in this sort of fairy tale. There's the arrogant, yet irresistibly handsome, love interest, the good and great boyfriend who is left behind, a wise and all-knowing wizard-type to guide the heroine in her quest, and even an evil queen. The story is formulaic, so if you're looking for a surprise, you may be disappointed. But it's a good formula, and if you're as comfortable with it as I am, you'll enjoy the tale.The real strength if the book lies in the engaging pace and a truly likeable main character. Sarajane is over twenty-one, making her a bit more mature than the norm for this genre, and that shows in her actions, in her relationships with others, and in how she takes the hand that's dealt her and makes the most of it. I came to care about her almost immediately and was ready to read more at the end of the book. Too bad for me, the second in the series wasn't yet available.Now, if you're as anal about editing as I am, be warned. I read the kindle version, which contained a number of formatting glitches that slowed down the read. One that was particularly irritating consistently caused paragraph breaks in the middle of quoted passages, so that I kept expecting another character to be speaking when it was the same one continuing their speech. And there were a number of other things I would have expected an editor to catch, such as using the word "meditate" and "mediate" interchangeably. But all-in-all I enjoyed this book. I give it four stars out of five.