Review: Interesting but Lacking
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
Aleyna's entire family and everyone around her had been destroyed by a wicked sorceress. To protect her from the horror, Ezralon, the unicorn, cast a sleeping spell on her and built a protective bubble around her. Yet, her spirit roams her old home and sees it, not destroyed as it is, but the way it was before the devastation. Someday her prince will come and awaken her, but Prince Darién is afraid of apparitions. How will that work?This was a well-written, quick-to-read fantasy, but it was almost too short. The story never developed fully. The rules for this make-believe land was never established. To some extent, things seem to happen in a haphazard, random way. Some things stretched belief for even a fairy tale or fantasy. I liked the five main characters, but I was never pulled into the place, because it seemed too unpredictable. Ezralon had so much power I wondered why he didn't just make everything right from the beginning. The story was interesting, but it didn't leave me satisfied. It ended happily, but there seemed to be too many fragmentations on the way to the conclusion. I like the characters but not the plot.