Review: Didn't reach its potential.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2012
When I saw the cover for this one, I knew I had to read it. The cover is absolutely gorgeous and the blurb sounds just like my kind of thing. However, this book, while OK, did not live up to my expectations.Let's start with what I liked about it. It's pretty fast-paced and there's a lot of mystery going on with the background story. I thought the idea of the Abandoned and the fire was pretty neat (I'm into anything that related to magic of some kind). The author had a way with feelings that I related to Chloe's fear and confusion easily as well as Eliot's anger and frustration. Also, I love the third person POV. Too many YA these days have only first person POV. I love to read the story from someone else's POV to find out the entire story. This just can't happen with 1st person POV.However, this book was just too short to feel complete. Nothing was explained. I feel like the blurb had more information than what was explained in the book. And no secret was uncovered because we were just left hanging at the end. There is a second book, but they should probably be made into one just because this one didn't have any information. It's like reading half of a complete book.Lastly, it really bothered me that the women did nothing. The guys did the protection while the women were the protected. The women are always scared and confused and helpless. I know it's going to get better later (otherwise what's the point right?), but currently I just don't really like the girls.In the end, while I liked this book, it didn't fulfill its potential because of its length. I do want to read the 2nd one to find out what happens and see if it's going to be any better.Ning @ Reading by Kindle Fire