Review: Lacking a lot, but great idea overall...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2010
Typos aside, I thought the idea and the general plot was good. The main character is pretty awesome and leads the story well enough. Unfortunately, from the beginning I felt like this was the 2nd or 3rd book of a series. The background is sort of filled in eventually, but it takes almost the entire book to do so, including the 'bonus story.'While I do love the characters Count and Kara, everything else about the book was difficult to follow and enjoy. The flow of the plot was not smoothe. The other characters seemed unfinished. I don't normally mind being thrown in the middle of a setting with gradual background information released as I read, but the author did a poor job of intergrating the reader into his world at a good pace. The beginning was very busy and had a lot going on, only as a recap in his hospital stay, and THEN the reader is put into the present time, which is slow moving. The bonus story felt like another "how I met this other character" mini story that was put in at random fillers during the plot.Count and Kara are good characters. The others need more polish. The book as a whole seemed completely unorganized. The idea for this magical world and its characters is great, but it's poorly executed.