Review: Get Ready to Grip the Edge of Your Seat!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
Overall 4 star-Book Description: 5-Cover: 3-Plot: 3.5-Creativity: 3-Grammar: 3-Simile Use: 2.5 (noticeable usage)-Description: 3-Show Not Tell: 3Reclamation is the conclusion to the Ravening series by Erica Stevens. The last novel left you wondering exactly what was going to happen, and the book description for this final installment certainly drew me in. The cover on the other hand, didn't. The cover looked too much like the first cover in the series for me to be drawn in from it. I also noticed the matching rips in the jeans and the muted background. It just didn't compare to the second cover in the series that really showed the story--this didn't draw me in, and it didn't feel like it told anything about the story. The plot of the story continued to be original and the description was less of a burden than the previous novels; however, the "twilight-ish" similarities that I saw in Taken Over continued into Reclamation. The Cullens feed on animals deer, bears and Bella first feeds on a cougar. Here Cade catches a cougar for Bethy to feed on. It's a bit too familiar for me. The rest of the story has a great pace, with the few hiccups of a bit more simile use than in the previous novels. The increase of similes and the decrease in overly descriptive scenes balanced out for a middle range of show not tell similar to the other novels. Overall, this novel will have you on the edge of your seat for most of it, praying for a good ending for the other parts and cringing for quite some time. The ending felt a bit abrupt for me, but it doesn't leave you hanging and you feel closure for the characters involved.