Review: enjoyable enough
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2013
Earthwalker is pretty standard PNR fare. I'm not saying I didn't like it. I read a lot of PNR because I like it, but those who read the genre regularly will recognise the tropes at play here. Some will claim them as their reason for reading the genre in the first place and others their most annoying recurrences. I fall a little in the middle.1. Stubborn, mouthy, sarcastic heroine2. tragic past3. Alluring badboy with a penchent for pet names4. true love in the background trying to do the right thing4. sudden development of supernatural powers5. heartfelt reunions4. miraculous success based on heroine's strength of will and/or love5. unexpected happy ending (that really is expected because we know what to expect)They were all here. Clark pulls mythology from more than one source and I found that fairly interesting. I also thought Decklan's mouth was funny. Some of the things she gets away with saying are great. She was stubborn, but not suicidally so. I appreciated that. But on the flip side there is no reason she isn't dead. She should be and it felt incredibly unnatural that the plot managed to swing around in her favour. I also never fully grasped what the fae were actually after or how Decklan was so powerful given her heritage (or lack there of). Despite that I rather enjoyed the experience of reading it.