Review: Didn't meet my expectations
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2012
From the blurb I figured the book is very much what I like to read, so I had high expectations for it. The beginning of the book was promising, but it watered down from there. Around the middle I got the impression the author was a bit lost and didn't exactly know where she was going with it -- to be short, it was rather boring without any real context or connection to the actual plot. In some ways the middle seems to be part of a fully different book than the beginning and end.Pine got the story back together for the grand finale, and in my opinion she did a good job with it. I do think the blurb promised a bit more than what the book delivered. Though it is a series, so we might get more of that on the latter books. However the main event on this book wasn't getting his brother back.Devi was a likable enough lead character and Pine managed to make her a believable hot and cold teenager without being too annoying. Kim -- Devi's best friend -- brought a little spice, but she was kind of forgotten after the first half of the book. Oz is a strange but nice guy demon who seems to do a lot of things for the sake of the plot, rather than for his personality.The premises was an interesting take on the Christian mythology -- devout believers be aware, that it might be offensive to you. I wish some things would have been explained a bit more in the book, since for example I had to go and google the difference between spirit and soul to fully understand what was going on.I think the story has a lot of potential, but it's quite clear it wasn't ready for publishing and still requires editing. For example there's a scene where Devi and Oz goes to have some pancakes and after they've ordered their delicious carb bombs, they are suddenly back in Oz's car driving to the pancake place.To be honest I thought quite often, that I'd just mark this book as DNF, but I stuck through it. I think the author has talent, but this novel could've used a lot more work.