Review: Young Adult Book in New Adult Clothing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2013
Book provided by author/publisher  for review on my blog. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.This is an interesting story, with well-developed characters I came to like but there were thoughts I had over and over as I read the book:Why is this listed as New Adult and not Young Adult? The characters are mated but there's nothing really that is necessary to the story that wouldn't be appropriate in a YA book. For whatever reason the author made it into a New Adult novel by having some characters  "mated," married really but mystically, and they do sleep together but not explicitly.  The whole sleeping together thing happens all the time in Older YA.  There's a little drinking too, but the plot would have worked with out it.  The kids are at a school but I can't tell if it is high school or College or if there is a distinction in this world. The kids are also under the thumb and discipline of parental figures. The kids also have responsibilities as rulers in training but that happens in a lot of YA too.It is a YA in New Adult clothing.  This bothered me because I don't really read YA anymore and I felt it was presented as  an adult book.Backstory! I felt as if it were the second novel in a series and that I had missed a bunch of backstory. A Bunch: Matings, past schooling, species, societal structuring, family!It ends on a cliff hanger that will make me HAVE to read a sequel even though I was ticked off by the book's classification.If I have time I will probably look for the next book in the series.