Review: Shades of Twilight
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2012
I thought this book started quite well and had great promise.  Unfortunately, as the story progressed I realised it was basically an imitation of Twilight, and a fairly poor one at that.  There were too many similarities for my liking (just replace vampires with enigmas) and, whilst I enjoyed Twilight, the writing in this book seemed rather juvenile.Very few of the characters in the story were likeable, including the main character, Kate.  As far as the love triangle was concerned, I felt the initial romance between Kate and Jack was well developed but the relationship between Kate and Seb felt rushed and not very believeable.  But my main problem was that the author spent the first 3/4 of the book telling us that Jack and Seb (enigmas) could die of a broken heart because of a curse on them, then we find out they are immortal but, despite this, they are still at risk of dying of a broken heart.  Well, either they are immortal or they aren't, make up your mind.  It just didn't make sense.I struggled to finish this book and, overall, it just didn't quite come together for me.  I don't think I will bother with the sequels.