Review: Felt like a retread
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2011
This felt like a retreaded version of multiple YA paranormal concepts -- older and wiser yet emotionally hurting hero, uncaring parents, a "bad girl" who was never really bad, a powerful yet untutored magic user who is the one "foretold by prophecy" to do something or other . . . I could never really get into it because I felt as if I had read it multiple times before.The concept of the sacrifice to the gods was potentially interesting, but I felt as if much of the potential was wasted.  We read a lot about the "favor" granted by the gods and at the end of the book the authors springs on us that the gods are actually present to watch the sacrifice and that the favor is of a business nature -- there is too little information to be able to place it in context, so the parts of the story with the most potential interest just thrown away.To top it off, it isn't even a proper short story or novella, but just a teaser for subsequent portions of the story.