Review: Great Start
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
Characters were awesome; Wise really developed them nicely so the reader felt truly invested in their progression and wanted to see what they would do next.  Plot was suspenseful, I enjoyed the circular feel to jumping back and forth from the backstory to the present, and I had a difficult time putting the book down.  Then the ending... well, it just, "ended."  I was so frustrated with the ending I almost screamed out loud!  Granted, this book is the first in a trilogy - but honestly, I didn't know that when I started it; and, even if a book is written as the set-up for a series, it still should have a satisfactory ending.  You can leave "some" things unanswered, as incentive for the reader to get the next book, but you should still give the reader a satisfactory ending.  And Wise failed on that, hence my lower rating.