Review: Almost okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2013
I'm not sure whether I liked this book or not and wish there was a 2.5 rating.  It had a promising premise -- Clare gets swept into an alternate world because she's a witch(?) or something, and tries to help Luka get home, maybe(?)  I'm not really sure, there was so much not told, that when I think about it, there wasn't really much of a story here.  I didn't actually dislike it, but I'm not sure it was worth reading, either.  I don't want to give too much away, but some of the questions I was left with were:  Why did the grandmother hate Luka so much?  Was the grandmother from here or there?  What was the grandmother?  Where/How did Pablo come into the situation? How long had Luka and Pablo been stranded here?  And why, if the grandmother could take anyone back anytime, and she apparently wanted Luka, didn't she just take him earlier (as she did later)?  What was Edward curious about?  What happened with Jaska?  How/Why did he help the grandmother?  What happened to the Red Death?  Why did it not harm Luka?  What is the significance of the wine?  Anyway, that's just a little of what I came away wondering (and maybe "Why did I read this?")