Review: Paranormal romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
So I am torn on my rating. I really liked the book, but I had trouble with a few things. I wish I could do half stars because I really feel that I fell at a 3.5 star rating. I liked the story quite a bit. I enjoyed the fact that we were hearing the story as it was told to Marlena and that Marlena was getting the story to understand who she was and help her make decisions for her future. I had some difficulty getting into it because there was so much background, but I loved that the author didn't rush through the ending. She gave us a conclusion, but added information that led you to where the third book would pick up. I was so happy there wasn't a huge cliffhanger and that we had something to go on all at the same time. However, I felt like there was so much background information at the beginning that I almost felt confused because it was so much to take in at once. My suggestion would have been to put in a family tree and just do the background as the Cassie and Chloe told the story without repeating any of the parts of the story. I think I would have enjoyed it simply being from Cassie's point of view as the story was told just because I think I would have had a better connection with her then. My other issue is that this was listed as erotica. I didn't think there was anything in it that led to an erotica classification....romance, yes, but not erotica. Erotica says lots of in depth sex scenes to me and this one is definitely not that in my opinion. I don't think it took anything away from the story to leave out the erotica part, but I would personally list this as a paranormal romance long before I would consider it erotica.*I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.