Review: High Hopes, Left Disappointed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2012
Review from LimerenceMag.comAsha, a dark fantasy by Kevis Hendrickson, is about a 15 year old girl, Asha, who has the soul of a demon.  The description for the book says that she plans to wage a war between heaven and hell, using humanity as her weapon, which immediately intrigued me.The cover is beautiful and the first chapter really drew me into the mind of Asha. Unfortunately, there was nothing after the first chapter that really kept me interested.  As the 31-page book continued, Asha's lack of emotion really bothered me.  She has the soul of a demon so I get that she's not supposed to care about anyone, but there was no real detest for anyone either.  It felt as though she was simply killing people off just because they got on her bad side.  There was no development of the conflict.I saw no evidence of a war between heaven and hell, although this is the first short story of a series.  The high school world that Kevis Hendrickson created, was stereotypical with clicks of cheerleaders, football players, goths and nerds.  There was no interest there for me.The one thing that caught my interest was when Asha's earth-mother met Asha's new friend, Morgana.  There was a little bit of tension there that I felt was possible of development, but there was nothing more in this book, and it wasn't enough to make me want to read the next.I had high hopes for this short dark-fantasy, but it fell flat in my opinion.  I rate Asha two stars.