Review: Immaginative but Dragging and Emotionless
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
I was going to be more generous with my stars here but I read the latest Patricia Briggs' book since I read this and realized I should instead be more honest.  The book has an interesting premise but it moves at a snails pace - for example the heroine sees a fairy on a rat in the subway...and thinks about it for, say, two months while nothing else much happens.  The relationship with the older man is nebulus throughout.  The twisty turns are far between and oddly emotionless. There's an entire scene where she is ran down in the projects and trapped in a laundry room and you never get a real sense of urgency about it.  It's like the author is not *there* with her characters, and she is telling not showing. There's also a deus ex machina rescue which I hate.The idea of the story is very unique and imaginative, so I hope the author can immerse herself in her character's feelings and reactions and draw the reader into the story - (and recommed reading Mercy Thompson as an example.)  And edit, edit, edit!!I thought that maybe the self removed feeling of the narrator/heroine was due to the fact that the author is attempting magical realism?  But it really didn't work for me.  And with plot points this could, this could have been a great book.