Review: Soooooo Disapointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
I picked up the original Ember book for free and loved it. I can't remember if I downloaded the Ember X version for free or paid for it but I thought the changes made for it didn't take away from the story and still liked it, in fact I've read it several times in waiting for this book to come out because I thought the plot idea was interesting and the characters were pretty well developed. They had flaws and you knew why they had their flaws.This book just doesn't live up to the quality of the first at all. The book was building and building to a climax that never comes. I felt like it was getting to where we are going to hit the point where everything has been leading to and the next page was the end of the book and information about the author. I swiped back and forth on my kindle five times to see if something had glitched out because the story couldn't possibly be ending at this point.I think the author had a good go with the first story and then just didn't know where to take it from there. People were clamoring for "When is the next one coming out?" and I think the author was just more interested in working on her other projects and not this one so it's sort of just thrown together.The editing is not good. At the very end of the book there's a passage where a character says "We'll fly to New York if we half to" instead of "have to". I noticed places where "hear" was spelled as "here" and there were places where a word should have been "is" but it was "it" instead. I felt there are also some continuity issues of an action being described and then a pause in that action and then when the action picks back up they are re-doing something that  was done before the pause. But maybe when I read it whatever was going on wasn't coming across clearly.This book just isn't worth the money. If you loved the first one, re-read it and imagine your own ending, you'll probably be more satisfied.