Review: The characters are worth reacting for...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
Thank you to Never too Old for Y.A. and N.A. Books and Heather James for providing an ecopy of this book...Cover: It's alright...Jasmine:I'm really curious what her story is... I want to know what happened to her family... Why was she abandoned? Why is she like that? Why is she so unique? There are many questions about her and not all were answered... But at least the readers were given some hints to some answers...Anyways, it's kinda frustrating that she did not tell Brae what really happened by the end of the story... I sense that this will be a start of another quarrel... But I understand that she's only trying to protect him, but still...Roxanne:Also called Roxy...I. HATE. HER!!! She's too full of herself and she likes to intimidate people... Sometimes I think of her as a bully... She likes to make people feel they're inferior to her (that's what I see she's doing)... Her comments about the other realms were also bordering on being racist... She doesn't really even know them and she's already judging them as a whole...I also don't like her reactions to what her King and her mother are doing or planning... When she first heard about the plan, I want to strangle her... I get the feeling that she would really want to be the queen and treat the people in the other realms as her slaves...Though, near the end she was starting to feel guilty and restless... But I still hate her, even if I get the feeling that no matter what she does, she will always be under the king's orders...Story:The story was good... But I it did not made me react so much on it, because the idea of realms and prejudice are not new to me... Though I'm not saying it's boring, it's just that it was making me neutral... I reacted so much on the characters but the plot itself was not worth reacting... I was really, really, really waiting for the climax... And yes it happened, but not until I was reading near the end... I felt that I was reading the introduction and the rising action for a very long time... It made me somewhat doubt if there will be even a climax... Though at least there was but, it was really short...The ending was a cliffhanger... But I expected that cause it is clear that there will be a second book... It's just really frustrating that a lot of questions were left unanswered...Rating:I gave this book 3 stars because even if I did not really enjoy the story per se, the characters made me react so much, especially Roxanne... And for me, even if I don't like a character, but he/she made me react so much, giving the book 3 stars is worth it...Happy Reading!!! Thank you!!!