Review: Beautiful Descriptive Writing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2012
I would like to thank the author for giving me this book in exchange for an honest review. I was really torn about how to rate this one, but I am going to have to stick with 3 stars.Elyse Draper is very good at describing this world she has created. It is different from anything I have read before. This book covers A big time period, almost two years I think. Most of it was the characters talking to each other about what they had been through in the past year. I would have preferred the story being written more in present tense of what James went through after the end of Freewill. Instead we learned about it as he told his new friend Micheal. Ellie's story was told a lot the same way. She told of her travels and experiences to her new friend and mentor, Cassandra. It was an interesting way to write the book, and show the relationship between the new characters. And new evil characters were brought in. Echidna gives me the chills. She is so creepy. Lune, Christopher's dog, has a new member join his family, and this addition added a lot to the story, and I am sure will be in on the action in the last book.The end of this came as quite a shock to me, and I am sorry to say I am not a fan of what occured. It is still giving me the heebie geebies. I saw it coming before the last page, but it is quite a new avenue to take this series on. Very heartbreaking, I think is how I feel. Not sure how much more Christopher can handle in his life, and I just feel like the kid deserves a break and something to smile about longer, and not just in passing.I really loved the first book, but this one felt too long and a little disappointing. I have high hopes for book 3, Vindication, to hopefully bring me a happy ending I long for.