Review: More of a 2.5, but leaning to the lower part
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2014
While the story had a different, very interesting start, I feel bad about the fact the complications the relationship may have had early on happened to be conveniently taken care off by a random bad guy. The female lead is nice, a little too nice, even, not even managing to get into mary sue territory, but more for lack of having anything interesting about her than anything else (she's apparently an uncommon beauty, but besides her almost-black hair, I don't think anything about her is described that would explain people falling in love with her so often). I did love how practical she was in some aspects, and I applaud her for it, but in others she was extremely stupid.... somewhat understandably so, but after the middle point, where one of the biggest challenges of the book finally gets solved she invites the situation right back in...? I know she has her reasons, but at that point it just seemed stupid.TLDR, the start was very good and I would have loved if the book had kept up the pace with that. Afterwards there's too many things happening without any tying them together...