Review: Entertaining Reading but Fell A Wee Bit Short
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2013
I have to say I had mixed feeling about this novel, the story itself was excellent, the characters were done well but at times I felt Misty was out of character (which was somewhat on purpose) but while I enjoyed the story it was overdone sexually.I expect these books to be sexually pervasive but I am not a fan of sexual scenes that do nothing but add pages to the book and that was the feeling I got from about half of the scenes in this novel (not to mention they were overly long, as if the writer was practicing how to write them).Since I am done with what I did not like sexually, I did enjoy the plot and storyline concerning the "world" and the action scenes.  The romance suffered a bit from an almost "instant" love with pretty much no romance at all.  I always feel that a writer who uses the "MINE!" type instant romance should at least make it realistic at some point but it fell short in that aspect.  That is not to say it was not there, it was just done with touches of "can't live without him/her" romantically with no real reason to make them feel that way, especially from Misty's viewpoint.There is a physical reason for that which kind of means they REALLY can't live without each other which clouds the romance (or lack thereof) but does add a bit of depth to the story.Would have liked to see a bit of interaction with her best friend after she had hooked up with the rock star of her dreams but the author cheated out of that bit of enjoyment IMHO.Bottom Line:  Great reading, great action, overdone sexually, light on any real romance.  the plot and action of this urban fantasy makes this a good book to read, if you are looking for actual romance, this is not the place.  I loved the rock star backdrop also and hope to see a bit more in a future book but hopefully the author will work the romance a bit and make the sexual scenes add to the story instead of just adding pages.  Barely 4 Stars (like 3.8 rounded) mainly for the urban fantasy plot, it could have been 5 Stars with a bit more effort than the author gave us.