Review: Good Start
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2014
-- SPOILER ALERT!!! --While I liked the story and the characters, it seemed to me that there were a few details missing, or for a better word, glossed over. The story moved along really well; but it's when Jesse and her sisters board the Star Raider ship with Hunter to go to his home planet of Rathon that the story felt rushed, or incomplete if you will. More character development and more of an in-depth story would have made the novel come across as more complete, thereby flowing smoothly. (I hope this makes sense.) I would have appreciated more details with respect to the new home on Rathon the girls move into, the culture, the environment, food, and clothes; basically their new way of life. Very little was mentioned to show how different (or similar) Rathon was to Earth, and/or Travitors to humans (male and female). Except for the odd detail we're privy to, they could've been living on Earth. In one instance we have Jesse coming back from the market to make a pizza, a type of food Travitors have never eaten. That's great and all, but it's not like she went to the corner store. It's a whole different planet, and yet she's got all the ingredients to make a pizza. Hello?? What was the market like? Were the ingredients different, similar? Sorry, just not believable. When they first land on Rathon, both Taylor and Jordan are ready to make friends and go to school. Hello?? More info please as I find it hard to believe the girls would find it an easy transition from school on Earth to a school on Rathon, not to mention if they'd be easily accepted by the Travitor children. This isn't like switching from a Catholic school to a public one. It's a whole different planet! (I know I'm repeating myself, but it needs to be said.) Am I the only one trying to understand this? When Jesse finds out she's pregnant, there are absolutely no details as to how different it would be having a Travitor baby compared to a human baby. Is the gestation period the same? What do they look like when they're born? Do they age the same as humans? Is Jesse scared of giving birth to a half-Travitor baby? Next we have the romance between Jesse and Hunter, two people who are supposedly so in love. Jesse goes from telling Hunter "don't touch me" one minute to "I love you" in the next. Hello?? There's no build-up of their feelings for one another, and except for Hunter's attractiveness, what is it about him that makes Jesse fall in love with him? Sure they have great sex, but how did it go from one extreme to the other? Like I mentioned earlier, it felt as though the author quickly glossed over or ignored these little details that would have made the novel feel more complete. I'm not asking for an in-depth analysis on everything (I hate reading novels that go overboard with details), but some info would have made it easier to understand and picture the story in my head. In the end, it's still a good story that I really enjoyed, and knowing myself I'll more than likely read book 2 when it becomes available. Hopefully it'll be a novel we can sink our teeth into.